#catch-22 — Public Fediverse posts
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Did you know that #antiwar novel Catch-22 is based (& would not have existed) on another #book?
40 years before #Catch22, another anti-war book was published: The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek.
In it, #Czech everyman Švejk (pronounced "sch-waik") hears about Franz Ferdinand's assassination & immediately understands that things are going to get real, and soon.
The reality of regular people is that the #systemic powers will make them do what they want & Švejk decides to get himself out of that hamster wheel (of being enlisted, going to the front, dealing with authority) in any way he can!
Much hilarity & cunning ensues & a work that Bertold Brecht felt to be THE next candidate for world #literature unfolds.
If you want a book about the Eastern Front (for a change) & something about #WWI, this one's it.
It was not finished by the author though (he died of heart failure after book 3).
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@carnage4life Its for the syndicate and we all have a share! #milo #catch22
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I'm currently reading (or trying to read) Heller's book 'Catch 22'.
I know it's meant to be a seminal masterpiece, but despite the clever satirical writing, it is a dreadfully mysogenistic book, and it probably was when it was written.
The repetitive storytelling (if it is indeed storytelling at all) is all over the place, which might have been acceptable in the experimental times when it was written, does not stand the test of time for me.
It's difficult to relate to, love or hate, any of the characters, because despite so much being written about them all, we don't get to know any of them.I'm going to plough on with it, and maybe I'll be rewarded eventually, but , goodness me, it's a slog through treacle!
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@grindcrank ja aber da kommt ja immer irgendwie heiße luft rein kann mir das nicht richtig vorstellen und muss wahrscheinlich noch viel mehr recherchieren wenn es kühler ist #catch22 🤯
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On June 24, 1970, Catch-22 debuted in the United States. Here’s a portrait of Alan Arkin as Yossarian!
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Okay, that one went well, at least for me.
I have eight jobs noted in my notebook, though I'm pretty sure I missed recording one or two that I can't remember off the top of my head. Even at this, the last five I had to put down later as it seemed I didn't have enough time between clients to take notes...
But out of that, I only had one item I couldn't repair. It was a #Sony bookshelf stereo-type system, the kind where it's basically a cube 30-40cm on a side, containing the amp, tape decks, tuner, CD player (or in this case, multiple-disc changer).
The reported problem was that the CD tray would not eject. Pressing the button did nothing, although the display would indicate that it was either opening or already open (not sure which).
Taking it apart as much as I could, I got to the point where the disc mechanism could not be removed because it was held in place by the front fascia (the fancy "door" on the front of the CD drawer mechanism), and fascia appeared to be attached to the drawer by screws or clips only accessible when the drawer is open. #Catch22 Sony over-complicate everything.
A highlight was fixing a talking stuffed #elephant that had stopped making sound. Small child very happy.
The high success rate, I think, is down to very few of the items I worked on being computer (#microcontroller)-based. Those black-box boards dying with no easy way to diagnose or repair the faults are the bane of our existence.
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I'm trying to get Uncle a new ID card to replace the one he lost.
The problem is, he didn't just lose his state ID card, he lost ALL his cards. His habit was to just keep them all in one big stack over an inch thick, and to take that entire stack out with him whenever he thought he might need any of the cards in it.
Then he lost the whole stack.
The New York DMV says they can't issue him an ID card if he doesn't have sufficient proof of who he is.
I'm out of ideas.
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Mistodon: #PaulBacon's famous 'Big Book Look' cover art design to #JosephHeller's 1961 satirical anti-war novel #Catch22, featuring 'the little guy that I tore out of a piece of paper, representing #Yossarian in full flight from everything', was adapted to #ANSIart by Cthulu for the recent books-themed MIST026 artpack collection.
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Feeling the feedback loop this morning. #Catch22
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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923– December 12,1999)
Before writing Catch-22, Joseph Heller served as a bombardier in World War II and flew 60 combat missions over France and Italy.
That experience became the seed of one of the most famous anti-war novels of the 20th century - a book where war is shown not as noble glory, but as a terrifying system of fear, paperwork, commands, and absurd rules.
#books #writers #reading #catch22 #JosephHeller #Heller #book #bookstodon @bookstodon
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #TVMiniseries #Catch22 #ShowMeaHero 8 Perfect Miniseries That No One Remembers Today http://dlvr.it/TS4Zvs
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #WorldWarII #Books #Catch22 10 Best World War II Books, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TRhybs
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we need to ship those hydrocarbons through the Strait of Hormuz so we can burn them and raise sea levels so we can bypass the Strait of Hormuz #catch22
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Wow, what a story, an AWS (Amazon Web Services) story…
Catch22 has nothing on them!
Good luck activating the “ah, support, situation”! 🤞 If you don’t report back in a reasonable time, we’ll send your clothes… 😁 (joke) -
the thing about off-site offline backup is that you need to occasionally get it back on-site to update and verify #catch22
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@ennolenze Du brauchst jeden Tag ein Einstempeln und ein Ausstempeln, sonst ist es keine Zeiterfassung! #catch22
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Marker: Too much computer. Needs more information in marker's domain of knowledge.
Me, adding features: I have univariate time series feature analysis working across multiple dimensions, and a mostly functional classification system attached. Each dimension runs in its own thread, shit is fast yo. I have attained enlightenment.
Anyone looking for eldrich R knowledge for time series analysis, theft is an interesting CRAN package. Blunt instruments are great. Note tsibbles have header data, you can't just yank columns out of them, it causes baffling downstream errors even if keys and indexes are included.
