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From a garage sale in Berkeley, a 1960s business-school text on filing systems and records management (Kahn, Yerian, & Stewart).

Steps in the filing process: (1) Inspecting, (2) Indexing, (3) Coding, (4) Sorting, (5) Storing


Chapter Six: Numeric Filing


The use of numerals to identify records has many advantages to alphabetic indexing.


Chapter Nine: Equipment and Supplies


Relative Cost to Maintain a Standard Four-Drawer Cabinet: 3% Cabinet, 12% Supplies, 21% Floor Space and Overhead, 64% Salary (clerks then earned $50/wk), total annual cost = $335


This post is dedicated to computers. Wow.

20th century advertising copy -- 28% less nicotine!

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* Varga's [sic] idealized conception of Ziegfeld beauty, especially created for the current M G M "Ziegfeld Girl"

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* "Do you mind if he's only a private?"
* "I could try to live within his income -- but what's he going to live on?"
* It's a great country that grows 'em like this

This post is dedicated to the rarefied atmosphere of a breathless altogether.

--- linux-2.6.5-rc2.orig/fs/reiser4/txnmgr.c Thu Jan 1 03:00:00 1970
+++ linux-2.6.5-rc2.new/fs/reiser4/txnmgr.c Thu Mar 25 20:29:14 2004
@@ -0,0 +1,4421 @@
+/* Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003 by Hans Reiser, licensing governed by
+ * reiser4/README */
+
+/* Joshua MacDonald wrote the first draft of this code. */
+
+/* ZAM-LONGTERM-FIXME-HANS: The locking in this file is badly designed, and
+a filesystem scales only as well as its worst locking design. You need to
+substantially restructure this code. Josh was not as experienced a programmer
+as you. Particularly review how the locking style differs from what you did
+for znodes usingt hi-lo priority locking, and present to me an opinion on
+whether the differences are well founded. */
+
+/* I cannot help but to disagree with the sentiment above. Locking of
+ * transaction manager is _not_ badly designed, and, at the very least, is not
+ * the scaling bottleneck. Scaling bottleneck is _exactly_ hi-lo priority
+ * locking on znodes, especially on the root node of the tree. --nikita,
+ * 2003.10.13 */

Headache: txnmgr.c
Migraine: flush.c

This post is dedicated to Zam, Nikita, Hans & Co.

Pei Mei also taught me the five-point palm exploding heart technique. I'm a bad person for not telling.

Thanks, Blogger, for the Gmail invite. If you know what kind of machina Bill has parked in the background, send your answers to killbill@gmail.com. This post is dedicated to Beatrix Kiddo.

[2004/05/20 (+one month, four days) and the answer is "DeTomaso Mangusta". Lila, thanks.]

[2004/04/13 (+one year) spam tastes great.]

"Since he belonged, even at the age of six, to that great clan which cannot keep this feeling separate from that, but must let future prospects, with their joys and sorrows, cloud what is actually at hand, since to such people even in earliest childhood any turn in the wheel of sensation has the power to crystallise and transfix the moment upon which its gloom or radiance rests... [James Ramsay]"

This post is dedicated to Virginia Woolf.

159 so far. This post is dedicated to programming on your day off.