The House at Pooh Corner
by A. A. Milne · first published 1925
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Ten adventures of Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, and other friends of Christopher Robin.
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> self-esteem issues, as if Eeyore did the RLHF inputs You need to reread Winnie-the-Pooh <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67098/pg67098-images.ht...> and The House at Pooh Corner <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73011/pg73011-images.ht...>. Eeyore is gloomy, yes, but he has a biting wit and gloriously sarcastic personality. If you want just one section to look at, observe…
on “I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files” ↗…commercialization of his father's work ("climbing upon my infant shoulders"). His daughter Clare died in 02012. Disgracefully, I think that some of the Milne and Shepard work is still in copyright; The House at Pooh Corner wasn't published until 01928, and even Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 01926. The only Pooh material published early enough to be in the US public domain is the poem from When we Were Very Young. I…
on “Penguin is no longer the owner of the copyright to The Tao of Pooh” ↗…looked like a tree which had been blown down; and as soon as a house looks like that, it is time you tried to find another one. What do you mean, not part of story telling? There are 64 semicolons in The House at Pooh Corner; and by the way, nearly all of them are followed by conjunctions.
on “Why does JSON have commas?” ↗…Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it." - The House at Pooh Corner
on “Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone” ↗