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new chocolate! new book!
Apr. 8th, 2005 01:08 amNew chocolate! New book! New attempt to combine two previous threads inappropriately!
First, the chocolate. I decided that I could finish up work tonight at the local Starbucks. (One of the local ones. There are at least two in a quarter-mile radius, and a third going in where a local diner just closed, but given that there are sushi restaurants every N-S block (that's 20 to a mile), that makes them relatively scarce.) As I was previously given a most eloquent recommendation by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stutefish, the side-goal was to try this Chantico stuff.
It is, in a word, good. It's not the best hot chocolate I've ever had, but I had to think before I decided that, which means it's good enough for all intents & purposes. I brought one home forreesei, who said that her 6 oz. cup might actually be too big. Sipping it periodically over a hot laptop, I thought it was perfect.
Meanwhile, in other news, the copy of Pratical Common Lisp I preordered last November showed up today! If you follow that link, you might wonder, why buy a book that I could read for free online? The answer, of course, is volume. I like having a nice volume in my hand to read... *ducks*
The cover of this book absolutely screams geekery, I must say. It's not just the series caption, "The Expert's Voice in Programming Language." It's not the black-and-yellow cover with a subtle honeycombing. It's the quotes they chose to put on the front cover:
With quotes like those, you can go very wrong indeed, but this one makes up for it:
"Please don't assume Common Lisp is useful only for databases, unit test frameworks, spam filters, ID3 parsers, Web programming, Shoutcast servers, HTML generation interpreters, and HTML generation compilers, just because those are the only things that happen to be implemented in the book Practical Common Lisp." -- Tobias C. Rittweiler
First, the chocolate. I decided that I could finish up work tonight at the local Starbucks. (One of the local ones. There are at least two in a quarter-mile radius, and a third going in where a local diner just closed, but given that there are sushi restaurants every N-S block (that's 20 to a mile), that makes them relatively scarce.) As I was previously given a most eloquent recommendation by
stutefish, the side-goal was to try this Chantico stuff.It is, in a word, good. It's not the best hot chocolate I've ever had, but I had to think before I decided that, which means it's good enough for all intents & purposes. I brought one home for
reesei, who said that her 6 oz. cup might actually be too big. Sipping it periodically over a hot laptop, I thought it was perfect.Meanwhile, in other news, the copy of Pratical Common Lisp I preordered last November showed up today! If you follow that link, you might wonder, why buy a book that I could read for free online? The answer, of course, is volume. I like having a nice volume in my hand to read... *ducks*
The cover of this book absolutely screams geekery, I must say. It's not just the series caption, "The Expert's Voice in Programming Language." It's not the black-and-yellow cover with a subtle honeycombing. It's the quotes they chose to put on the front cover:
"that book is dead sexy"(When I met Kenny Tilton at ILC 2004, he didn't obviously have prehensile toes, but maybe he works with geckos?)
-- Xach on #lisp
"Two prehensile toes up!"
-- Kenny Tilton, comp.lang.lisp demon, reporting on behalf of his development team
With quotes like those, you can go very wrong indeed, but this one makes up for it:
"Please don't assume Common Lisp is useful only for databases, unit test frameworks, spam filters, ID3 parsers, Web programming, Shoutcast servers, HTML generation interpreters, and HTML generation compilers, just because those are the only things that happen to be implemented in the book Practical Common Lisp." -- Tobias C. Rittweiler
