Its amazing how little you can have to say at times. I certainly went through a spell there. Almost two months without a post. I wish I could say I was too busy, but that's not the case. Well what has finnaly broken my blogger block? Not sure. Although I really liked the question posed on Artima on 'How Would you Redesign java.awt.Component'. The text of the question breaks down the problem well. The most interesting thing about it though is that after 5 days it has no responses.
Shark Crackers
The movie Jaws has been a fan favorite for 30 years. A lot has been written about the impact Jaws had on the movie making business and summer swimming habits but there's one aspect of the movie that's seldom been discussed, the impact Jaws had on the image of the saltine cracker. Before Robert Shaw's Quint, a cracker was a bland cake of baked flour only good as a surface to hold peanut butter or cheese, but not after. Quint elevated the cracker into the snack of sailors and shark hunters. What man has not wanted to calmly snap chunks of a cracker while saying the words: Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish! Not like going down to the pond and chasing bluegills and tommycocks. This shark, swallow you whole. No shakin', no tenderizin', down you go. Much like the Eucharist is a symbol of Christ in the Catholic tradition, in Jaws, the cracker forms the edible representation of the
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