From cc9cdbee92aa6d148a1524ebccbd19d89f90e1d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bnewbold Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:08:23 -0500 Subject: books tweaks --- books/Gravity's Rainbow.page | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- books/Little Schemer.page | 6 +- books/Seasoned Schemer.page | 12 ++-- books/wanted books.page | 59 ---------------- books/wanted-books.page | 59 ++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 books/wanted books.page create mode 100644 books/wanted-books.page (limited to 'books') diff --git a/books/Gravity's Rainbow.page b/books/Gravity's Rainbow.page index 013041d..9597311 100644 --- a/books/Gravity's Rainbow.page +++ b/books/Gravity's Rainbow.page @@ -40,81 +40,83 @@ Rocket Limericks ---------------- *(These are interspersed on pages 305-335)* -| There once was a thing called a V-2 -| To pilot which you did not need to- -| You just pushed a button, -| And it would leave nuttin' -| But stiffs and big holes and debris, too. -| -| -| Ja, ja, ja, ja! -| In Prussia they never eat pussy! -| There ain't hardly cats enough, -| There's garbage and that's enough, -| So waltz me around again, Russky! -| -| There was a young fellow named Crockett, -| Who had an affair with a rocket. -| If you saw them out there -| You'd be tempted to stare, -| But if you ain't tried it, don't knock it! -| -| There was a young fellow named Hector, -| Who was fond of a launcher-erector. -| But the squishes and pops -| Of acute pressure drops -| Wrecked Hector's hydraulic connector. -| -| There once was a fellow named Moorehead, -| Who had an affair with a warhead. -| His wife moved away -| The very next day- -| She *was* always kind of a sorehead. -| -| There was a technician named Urban, -| Who had an affair with a turbine. -| "It's much nicer," he said, -| "Than a woman in bed, -| And it's sure as hell cheaper than bourbon!" -| -| There once was a fellow named Slattery -| Who was fond of the course-gyro battery. -| With that 50-volt shock, -| What was left of his cock -| Was all slimy and sloppy and spattery. -| -| There was a young fellow named Pope, -| Who plugged into an *os*-cillo-*scope*. -| The cyclical trace -| Of their carnal embrace -| Had a damn nearly infinite slope. -| -| There was a young fellow named Yuri, -| Fucked the nozzle right up its venturi. -| He had woes without cease -| From his local police, -| And a hell of a time with the jury -| -| There was a young man named McGuire, -| Who was fond of the pitch amplifier. -| But a number of shorts -| Left him covered with warts, -| And set half the bedroom on fire. -| -| There once was a fellow named Ritter, -| Who slept with a guidance transmitter. -| It shriveled his cock, -| Which fell off in his sock, -| And made him exceedingly bitter. -| -| There once was a fellow named Schroeder, -| Who buggered the vane servomotor. -| He soon grew a prong -| On the end of his schlong, -| And hired himself a promoter. -| -| There was a young man from Decatur, -| Who slept with a LOX generator. -| His balls and his prick -| Froze solid read quick, -| And his asshole a little bit later. +:: + + There once was a thing called a V-2 + To pilot which you did not need to- + You just pushed a button, + And it would leave nuttin' + But stiffs and big holes and debris, too. + + + Ja, ja, ja, ja! + In Prussia they never eat pussy! + There ain't hardly cats enough, + There's garbage and that's enough, + So waltz me around again, Russky! + + There was a young fellow named Crockett, + Who had an affair with a rocket. + If you saw them out there + You'd be tempted to stare, + But if you ain't tried it, don't knock it! + + There was a young fellow named Hector, + Who was fond of a launcher-erector. + But the squishes and pops + Of acute pressure drops + Wrecked Hector's hydraulic connector. + + There once was a fellow named Moorehead, + Who had an affair with a warhead. + His wife moved away + The very next day- + She *was* always kind of a sorehead. + + There was a technician named Urban, + Who had an affair with a turbine. + "It's much nicer," he said, + "Than a woman in bed, + And it's sure as hell cheaper than bourbon!" + + There once was a fellow named Slattery + Who was fond of the course-gyro battery. + With that 50-volt shock, + What was left of his cock + Was all slimy and sloppy and spattery. + + There was a young fellow named Pope, + Who plugged into an *os*-cillo-*scope*. + The cyclical trace + Of their carnal embrace + Had a damn nearly infinite slope. + + There was a young fellow named Yuri, + Fucked the nozzle right up its venturi. + He had woes without cease + From his local police, + And a hell of a time with the jury + + There was a young man named McGuire, + Who was fond of the pitch amplifier. + But a number of shorts + Left him covered with warts, + And set half the bedroom on fire. + + There once was a fellow named Ritter, + Who slept with a guidance transmitter. + It shriveled his cock, + Which fell off in his sock, + And made him exceedingly bitter. + + There once was a fellow named Schroeder, + Who buggered the vane servomotor. + He soon grew a prong + On the end of his schlong, + And hired himself a promoter. + + There was a young man from Decatur, + Who slept with a LOX generator. + His balls and his prick + Froze solid read quick, + And his asshole a little bit later. diff --git a/books/Little Schemer.page b/books/Little Schemer.page index 47086b4..7490698 100644 --- a/books/Little Schemer.page +++ b/books/Little Schemer.page @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The Little Schemer :by: Daniel Friedman and Matthias Felleisen :Edition: Fourth (4rth) -See also `Scheme `__. +See also `Scheme `_. I read this book before starting on a scheme/physics project. I had programmed in scheme previously as an algebra/analysis tool, but never really sat down @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ some more thought and I'm not sure how happy I am with the description of collectors and continuations. For a better description of the Y-combinator, see these `course notes -`__. +`_. -This book is followed by `The Seasoned Schemer `__ +This book is followed by `The Seasoned Schemer `_ and The Reasoned Schemer. Preface Definitions diff --git a/books/Seasoned Schemer.page b/books/Seasoned Schemer.page index 655c44c..cebbdfc 100644 --- a/books/Seasoned Schemer.page +++ b/books/Seasoned Schemer.page @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The Seasoned Schemer :by: Daniel Friedman and Matthias Felleisen :Edition: First (1st) -See also `Scheme `__. This book is a sequel +See also `Scheme `_. This book is a sequel to `The Little Schemer`_; The Reasoned Schemer is a paralel exploration of logical programming. @@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ work done in, but it's kind of like searching for anti-aliasing in digital photos or scanning the edges of a wall for painting mistakes. Sometimes the big picture is the whole point and it's worth putting up with small flaws. -.. _The Little Schemer: /k/books/littleschemer/ +.. _The Little Schemer: Little+Schemer Issues/Omissions -------------------------- -The Y combinator function is never defined in this book, I had to copy it out of -`The Little Schemer`_; +The Y combinator function is never defined in this book, I had to copy it out +of `The Little Schemer`_:: (define Y (lambda (thing) @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Also ``eqlist?``:: (else (and (eqlist? (car a) (car b)) (eqlist? (cdr a) (cdr b))))))) MIT/GNU Scheme doesn't seem to have ``letcc`` or ``try``; I stuck with -``call-with-current-continuation``: +``call-with-current-continuation``:: (call-with-current-continuation (lambda (hook) ...) ; is the same as @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ The Twentieth Commandment function that is equivalent but does not forget. Then, when you use it, remember to forget. -**I love that last sentence!** +*I love that last sentence!* diff --git a/books/wanted books.page b/books/wanted books.page deleted file mode 100644 index 46143c6..0000000 --- a/books/wanted books.page +++ /dev/null @@ -1,59 +0,0 @@ ---- -format: rst -categories: book -toc: no -... - -================================= -Wanted Books -================================= - -These are some books i'd love to own a copy of or at least read through -carefully. - -Technical ------------- - - * **Visual Complex Analysis** by Tristan Needham - * **Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment** by Ben Fry - * **General Theory of Relativity** by P. A.M. Dirac - * **Computability and Unsolvability** by Martin Davis - * **Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics** by John von Neumann - * **Real and Complex Analysis** by Walter Rudin - * **Art of Computer Programming** by Donald E. Knuth - * **Gravitation** by MTW - * **Euclid's Elements** - * **C Programming Language** by Brian W. Kernighan - * **Mathematical Physics** by Robert Geroch - -Math -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -(I haven't really looked in to most of these, just sound interesting) - - - * `On formally undecidable propositions of Principa Mathematica and related systems`:title:, by Kurt Godel. - * `Computability and Unsolvability`:title:, by Martin Davis. - * `Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory`:title:, by A.I. Khinchin. - * `Calculus of Variations with Applications to Physics and Engineering`:title:, by Robert Weinstock. - * `Relativity, Thermodynamics, and Cosmology`:title:, by Richard Tolman. - * `Mathematics Applied to Continuum Mechanics`:title:, by Lee Segel. - * `Optimization Theory and Applications`:title:, by Donald Pierre. - * `The Variational Principles of Mechanics`:title:, by Cornelius Lanczos. - * `Tensor Analysis for Physicists`:title:, by J.A. Schonten. - * `Investigations on the Theory of Brownian Movement`:title:, by Albert Einstein. - * `Great Experiments in Physics`:title:, ed. by ???. - * `Curvature and Homology`:title:, by Samuel Goldberd. - * `The Philosophy of Mathematics`:title:, by Stephan Korner. - * `The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli`:title:, by A. Ramelli (!). - * `Experiments in Topology`:title:, by Stephan Barr. - -Novels ------------ - - * **Return From the Stars** by Stanislaw Lem - * **Mortal Engines** by Stanislaw Lem - -Other -------- - * **Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow** by Zak Smith - diff --git a/books/wanted-books.page b/books/wanted-books.page new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6193aa5 --- /dev/null +++ b/books/wanted-books.page @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +--- +format: rst +categories: book +toc: no +... + +================================= +Wanted Books +================================= + +These are some books i'd love to own a copy of or at least read through +carefully. + +Technical +------------ + + * **Visual Complex Analysis** by Tristan Needham + * **Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment** by Ben Fry + * **General Theory of Relativity** by P. A.M. Dirac + * **Computability and Unsolvability** by Martin Davis + * **Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics** by John von Neumann + * **Real and Complex Analysis** by Walter Rudin + * **Art of Computer Programming** by Donald E. Knuth + * **Gravitation** by MTW + * **Euclid's Elements** + * **C Programming Language** by Brian W. Kernighan + * **Mathematical Physics** by Robert Geroch + +Math +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +(I haven't really looked in to most of these, just sound interesting) + + + * **On formally undecidable propositions of Principa Mathematica and related systems**, by Kurt Godel. + * **Computability and Unsolvability**, by Martin Davis. + * **Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory**, by A.I. Khinchin. + * **Calculus of Variations with Applications to Physics and Engineering**, by Robert Weinstock. + * **Relativity, Thermodynamics, and Cosmology**, by Richard Tolman. + * **Mathematics Applied to Continuum Mechanics**, by Lee Segel. + * **Optimization Theory and Applications**, by Donald Pierre. + * **The Variational Principles of Mechanics**, by Cornelius Lanczos. + * **Tensor Analysis for Physicists**, by J.A. Schonten. + * **Investigations on the Theory of Brownian Movement**, by Albert Einstein. + * **Great Experiments in Physics**, ed. by ???. + * **Curvature and Homology**, by Samuel Goldberd. + * **The Philosophy of Mathematics**, by Stephan Korner. + * **The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli**, by A. Ramelli (!). + * **Experiments in Topology**, by Stephan Barr. + +Novels +----------- + + * **Return From the Stars** by Stanislaw Lem + * **Mortal Engines** by Stanislaw Lem + +Other +------- + * **Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow** by Zak Smith + -- cgit v1.2.3