Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up late, read the DII spec, quite good, should have used it for the async stuff in bonobo.
Prepared for cell group, peeled lots of potatoes for baking ( they grow new, clean skins in the oven ), cheese, salad, tuna, sweetcorn and all manner of good thing.
Apparently failed to poison everyone again, read some of The Annotated Alice, it seems that according to "The Jabberwock Traced to Its True Source" is just a copy of a little known old German ballad (by Robert Scott - eminent Greek scholar):
Der Jammerwoch
Es Brillig war. Die schlichte Toven
Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
Und aller-mumsige Burggoven
Die mohmen Rath' ausgraben.

Bewahre doch vor Jammerwock!
Die Zahne knirschen, Krallen kratzen!
Bewahre' vor Jubjub - Vogel, vor
Frumiosen Banderschnatzchen!

Er griff sein vorpals Schwertchen zu,
Er suchte lang das manchsam' Ding;
Dann, stehend untem Tumtum Baum,
Er an-zu-denken-fing.

Als stand er tief in Andacht auf,
Des Jammerwochen's Augen-feuer
Durch tulgen Wald mit wiffek kam
Ein burbelnd ungeheuer!

Eins, Zwei! Eins, Zwei!
Und durch und durch
Sein vorpals Schwert zerschnifer-schnuck
Da blieb es todt! Er, Kopf in Hand, Gelaumfig zog zuruch

Und schlugst Du ja den Jammerwock?
Umarme mich, mein Bohm' sches Kind!
O Freuden-Tag! O Halloo-Schlag!
Er chortelt froh-gesinnt

Es Brillig war. Die schlichte Toven
Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
Und aller-mumsige Burggoven
Die mohmen Rath' ausgraben.
Apparently there are also 2 latin translations and a French translation :-)
Dismayed by Elliots seeming total lack of willingness to release a new ORBit version to assist the evolution team get the next milestone out quickly.
Reverted checking for ORBit-0.5.6 since we can't get it. Now Bonobo fails to make distcheck again; excellent.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2000-12-13: Wednesday

Der Jammerwoch