Easter for Easter
Easter issue ideals
IDEALS PUBLISHING, CO
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Milwaukee 1, WIS
Six Issues In Binder
1950-1959 Not In Order
- Poetry & Pictures.
- So many pages are frame ready.
- Ready to be cut our and pinned to the wall.
- And yet, I don't believe it.
- Still, I liked the part about the gang.
- And about what the average guy can expect.
- It's hard not to notice the nice paper stock.
- Good Christian Art.
- Animal Cruelty.
- I wonder if they are alive?
- But did he advocate advocating?
- Very High Quality.
- It's why I like the Free Stack...
- Bird!
- The Minister of the Lord in all his perverted glory comes rapidly to mind.
- These journals are heirloom quality.
- Go, Peter! Go!
- However, I've never been fond of the ending.
- The original subscriber lived in -------, Kansas.
- How do the Sea Gods feel about such things?
- But then, maybe, if I felt forgiven, I would forgive.
- I like the dot-matrix cross-hatch printing artefact.
- Flower Cap Fairies.
- This is going to suck.
- Jesus was a conductor?
- Killed for his sins against music.
- Stories are, often, more fun when the words are skipped.
- I have the Mother's copy.
- The other (the Gift Subscription) was for her daughter.
- "Clean, Wholesome, Old-Fashioned American ideals"
- Judas was just doing what he was told.
- Better Landscapes.
- Three nailed on high.
- Cats are people, too.
- This one is good.
- A story (er, picture) in words.
- Stand Tall.
- Perhaps, to have that which can be stolen is akin to sin?
- They like his art.
- I find the bunnies a bit creepy.
- Labour for Labour.
- The binder these magazines are in cost $3.
- Linen Paper.
- It's hard to craft an image I care about.
- I thought the page was cut out.
- A picture removed revealing what lay beneath.
- I've seen that boy and that duck, before.
- A Fold-Out Spread.
- She was a fool.
- I'm not a believer.
Garfield
The Eleventh Fat Cat 3-Pack
Jim Davis
- A $20.85 Value!
- Funny.
- It's hard to quit.
- This page is speckled brown.
- I wonder if someone sneezed on it.
- He has a violent streak.
- Ha!
- I like cat feet.
- The right choice.
- Nothing is wrong.
- But it is time to end my involvement with this work.
- I made it just short of a third of the way through.
- So, almost to the end of the first book.
- I got my money's worth.
Basic BASIC
An Introduction to Computer Programming in BASIC Language
James S. Coan
The book was written in 1970 (even if the copy I have is from 1985). So, it's old information. In fact, the information is so old (so amazingly old), one of the appendixes concerns itself with Paper Tape (as opposed to punch cards) for the input and (surprisingly, as well) the output of computer programs.
- 1978
- {Shows how deeply the publication date was buried, as this is what I came up with in Real Time.}
- I don't feel bad throwing it out.
- Gads!
- Hey!
- Yeah, I didn't follow that loop.
LINE DEF FN_(X) = valid_statement- Line Numbers seem to be there to enable
GOTO statements... and for no other reason.
- It's expensive... cognitively.
- ASCII Graphs!
- We've come a long way, baby.
- It looks like the same few commands are used (over and over again) in the sample programs.
- We are just doing math, now.
- Paper Tape!
IF-THEN is a GOTO.- That's all it can launch.
- OK!
- I'm not going back to BASIC.
Clerks
Two Screenplays
Chasing Amy
Kevin Smith
The Introduction was pretty good. I thoroughly enjoyed reading
Clerks. And had no intention of ever reading (and therefore did not read)
Chasing Amy.
And before we get into my notes, let me note that another had made notes, via a sticky note attached to the front page. It's sort of ironic, since I made my notes on the back page... sans sticky note.
The aforementioned notes by another contained:
- Three Phone Numbers
- A Twelve Item Play List
And now, my (incredibly detailed) notes:
- One gots to know in order to understand.
- A good solid Introduction.
- I could have made this a regular book club selection.
- I seem to be reading all of it.
- {Every word of the Introduction and Clerks, at least.}
- One does not soon forget the definition of Snowballing.
- Happy Scrappy!
- The joke works in print, too.
- I react poorly to notions of injustice.
- So, there is a plot.
- Silent Bob Speaks!
- I always thought (or have for the last several years) that Kevin Smith played Jay.
- It turns out, he played Silent Bob.
- Looking at images online, it is Silent Bob and Jay that I had confused.
- Not what Kevin Smith looked like.
- If I want to write Movies, I need to read more scripts.
The Far Side Gallery
Gary Larsen
- It's his brother's fault.
- I can relate.
- And we're laughing out of the gate.
- Odd that.
- What a coincidence!
- And there's the first one I don't understand...
- One of the cartoons has been cut out.
- Two of them.
- As there's a cartoon on both sides, don't you know.
- Wild Animals...
- A person could write a story about that.
- But others are situations.
- And they work.
- The full page prints make nice break points.
- Well, maybe we'll continue on.
- And stop at the next one.
- The cut-outs are enclosed.
- I wonder if the last person ever got to the end.
- I typically tear out pages as I go.
- And now, I've found a tiny bookmark.
- So human.
- A single cartoon pane is about the right length for a story.
- Survival is paramount!
- A carnival of the absurd.
- There are lots of bent pages.
- I might just finish this today.
- I'm pleasantly bemused.
- Nope, not today.
- {Turns out, not that week.}
- So many fit well with High School Life.
- A good sick person book.
- On this tired morning, it's about all I can muster.
- A week later...
APS Science 2016
Research and Engineering Highlights
from the
Advanced Photon Source
at
Argonne National Laboratory
As my life goes on, I become less and less science oriented. I like the idea of knowing what is contained within the pages of this Survey. But this book (more like a giant pamphlet) has been sitting unread for a half-year. It is time to move on... somewhere around page fifty out of two hundred.
- Beam Line Scientists
- Shifts in the Dynamic Phase State
- Yeah, I am so far out of my depth.
- My head hurts.
- Nano-Puddles
- It's all about the Spin.
Grid Perplexors
Deductive Logic Puzzles
Level A
These are Brain Teaser Puzzles where one crosses out the impossible and what remains is the right answer.
When I acquired the book, four of the puzzles were completed. Over the next two months, I completed eleven of them, leaving a grand total of thirty-five unsolved as the book hits the trash bin.
Managing Software Requirements
A Unified Approach
Dean Leffingwell
Don Widrig
I got a stack of ten or so of these old hardback computer books. I got a few chapters into this one. But let us be honest, I do not care about computers all that much anymore. I mean, I was studying for a potential future programming job. But I'm not really interested in working anymore. So, I only got a few chapters into this book. And as for the rest of the stack, they will be lucky if they get fifteen minutes each... written up in that space where I do hyper-fast reads.
Let us say that (at this point, at this juncture in time) I have four level of reads when it comes to commentary and write-ups. Those books which I ignore, which I do not write up. Those that I only plan to give a few moments to, but which may get as much commentary as those here (A Fast Fifteen). Books which I intend to comment upon as I page through slowly (or read word for word), which is what this page is about. And those bits of writing which get an entire web-page devoted to their consumption. For the most, which category a book falls into is decided in advance.