I’m a big fan of the NMR genre, but this book was really just phoned in. I mean, “Chemical Shifts of P-31 Compounds” had me on the edge of my seat, and “Hyperfine Coupling Constants of the Pnictogens” had a little something for everybody. I can say this with the conviction that only comes with love when I say that “Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29” is total crap.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it’s gonna be like, BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.
Joe Armstrong (Erlang) once said “The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.