Thursday, September 2, 2010

What Are The Variables For Ap Lab #5

Catch 22, Joseph Heller. Portrait of Clevinger.


Everyone agreed that Clevinger would have made a career in academia. In short, Clevinger was one of those people who have a lot of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who have discovered a short time.
In short, Clevinger was a simpleton. Often, in the eyes of Yossarian, he looked like one of those people hanging on the walls of modern art museums, which have both eyes on the same side of the face. It was an illusion, of course, generated by the predilection of Clevinger stubbornly set on one side of the problem and never even see each other.
un'umanitarista policy was that could distinguish left from right, and it was uncomfortably caught in the middle. He was constantly defending his friends from his enemies and his friends right right from its enemies, was so devoutly hated by both groups, who never defended it at anyone because they thought it was a dupe.
was a very serious, zealous, conscientious gonzo. You could not go to the movies with him without getting involved in a discussion on empathy, on Aristotle, on the universal messages about the responsibilities of cinema as an art form in a materialistic society. The girls wore to the theater had to wait until the first interval to determine if he was seeing the play was good or bad, but then he came to know without any doubt. (...) He knew everything about literature except how to read with pleasure.

Catch 22, Joseph Heller, Simon and Schuster, 2000. (Page 71)

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Kodak Easyshare V603 Problem

Applause in the palm of your hand














I saw a person who applauded with the palms of your hands. Other people, next door, instead applauded with his fingertips, that is by beating the four fingers of the right against the palm of the left. Most were in this way. Then, observing, I noticed that there were also those who cheered with the palms, but raising his hands to the hook, one inside the other. In short, it seems there are many ways ...

Now, what struck me, because the applause is a compliment, a sign of consent and enthusiasm, and his sound and visual component, but also had a specific symbolic meaning and psychological, social gesture to the fact among others. In fact, the applause with his fingertips has something television, fake aristocrat and self-intellectual clap with the palms, however, is far more honest, a bit 'like the rhythmic clapping that makes the circus or a concert. It 'an attitude, if you will, that seems a bit awkward, almost rude, but from His party has the undeniable advantage of not concealing any complacency on the part of those who do so. The applause with open hands, such as dishes flying against each other, yet they do alone, especially children, with their joy and simplicity.


In other words, there are people who thinks, lives and breathes, then there are people who look at the belly button and thinks only of the image itself.