Two amusing thoughts

Back at work after break, I needed something to amuse me. Found these two things and thought I'd share.

First a quote:

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
--- Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

And this site, which I got from TORN: A protest over Peter Jackson's choice to call the next LotR movie "Return of the King". (Just in case anyone is still sleeping when reading this it is just a joke.)

But I want to know WHY...

In a discussion group we were discussing TTT and I said that Tolkien had a "rather byzantine writing style" and some one wrote back and said:

Tolkien's text can definitely get convoluted, but I don't think
Byzantine is *quite* the allusion that works best. ;)

Which is fine. But I really want to know why. I realize that Byzantine is used in describing architecture and painting and that it isn't a term that's usually used for writing, so maybe that's the concern. Perhaps it is the religious connotations that go with Byzantine that was the problem. Maybe, from their experience, Byzantine carries with it negative implications that I didn't intend. But why put "quite" in the little ** symbols? And I didn't say that Tolkien was convoluted, I used Byzantine to reflect the layered and intricate wording that Tolkien uses, especially in his dialog... obviously this person got something else from it. And I'd like to know what.

I suppose I could write them and find out, but I really don't want to get into a discussion of Tolkien's writing style. I'm afraid that it would seem like I'm disagreeing with them rather than simply looking for reasonings. I happen to like the allusion, but I'm won't use it if it's wrong or misleading.

*sigh*

Not that I obsess over little things.

Dork Tower Rocks...

Never read Dork Tower at work because when you laugh hysterically all the kids think you are more insane.

But Dork Tower rocks...

He Loves Us

Although it is very confrontational and not just a little insane for me to want to argue with a comic character and point out that Frodo wasn't offering the ring the the wraith, but was putting the ring on. The same way he tried to when hiding from the Wraith in the Shire, at Weathertop or in the marshes...

I'm okay now... really I am.