“Oh, TANSTAAFL. Means ‘There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.’ And isn’t,” I added, pointing to a FREE LUNCH sign across room, “or these drinks would cost half as much. Was reminding her that anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.”
–Manuel in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
It’s my first time reading Heinlein’s novel. He’s the one who wrote original novel of “Starship Troopers” (many people hate this movie but i enjoyed it a lot)
Thai edition of the book is printed by ASK Media, and this is the 1st sci-fi book by the publisher. I bought this book right after it release but just have time to finish it.
Awesome!, is its definition. The novel is about lunar, a prison for exiled people. It lacks of water, air, metal even women. Lunar’s society is built on these obstacles and evolve itself into a completely strange social for earthlings. One day, lunar revolts against the planet earth although they don’t even have a bomb, rocket, or missile.
Insider news said Heinlein’s “Have Space Suit-Will Travel” has already translated. I’m looking forward to this one.
Nice commercial from Adidas, featuring many stars - Cisse, Gerrard, Ballack, Kahn, Zidane, Kaka, Kuranyi, Riquelme, Robben, Lampard, Defoe, Raul, Viera, Beckham, Nesta - even Beckenbauer and Platini !
I’ve never seen Woody Allen’s movie. Because I presumed that he made kind of boring movies. (not romantic, not family, not comedy, no explosive, only people keep talking and talking - such films are not my favor)
According to the lastest “100 Sexiest Women in the World” by FHM magazine reader’s poll, she got No.1, beats out former No.1 Angelina Jolie, Jessica Alba and Keira Knightley.
Woody Allen’s film is not as boring as i expected. The screenplay is sharp and funny, not the way typical comedy is, but rather kind of black comedy. We didn’t laugh at characters’ activity but their destiny.
The man who said “I’d rather be lucky than good” saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It’s scary to think so much is out of one’s control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn’t and you lose.
Let’s see the trends of famous footballers using Google Trends.
The Blue line is Ronaldinho, the Brazilian playmaker.
The Red one is David Backham, the England’s captain.
The highest point of Ronaldinho’s graph is in 2005, the time he named European footballer of the year.
Beckham’s is in 2004, when there was news about a woman claimed him affairs.
Handsomeness isn’t necessary for one to become famous
แต่สำหรับคนที่เขียน Python มาก่อน อ่านแล้วมันแปลกๆ ขัดๆ กับความคุ้นเคยของ Python ที่ไม่ต้องมีเครื่องหมายวุ่นวาย แล้วก็การจะทำอะไรซักอย่าง มันควรจะเป็นแบบ “There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way to do it” ไม่ใช่ “There’s more than one way to do it” แบบ Perl
