Living with Crazy Buttocks

Living with Crazy Buttocks is a book written by Australian author and cartoonist Kaz Cooke[1] and published by Penguin Books[2] on November 19, 2001.[3] It won the 2002 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year.[4][5][6]

Living with Crazy Buttocks
AuthorKaz Cooke
LanguageEnglish
SubjectContemporary culture
PublisherPenguin Books, Harmondsworth
Publication date
November 19, 2001
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages348
Awards2002 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year
ISBN9780140297232
Dewey Decimal System classification
LC ClassLibrary of Congress Classification

Synopsis

Living with Crazy Buttocks is composed of humorous essays on contemporary culture,[7] with author Kaz Cooke exploring topics ranging from Barbie dolls, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, celebrities, firemen, archbishops, cosmetic surgery, Internet gurus, Ricky Martin's bottom, Barbara Cartland to Ben-Hur.

gollark: ``` [...] MIPS is short for Millions of Instructions Per Second. It is a measure for the computation speed of a processor. Like most such measures, it is more often abused than used properly (it is very difficult to justly compare MIPS for different kinds of computers). BogoMips are Linus's own invention. The linux kernel version 0.99.11 (dated 11 July 1993) needed a timing loop (the time is too short and/or needs to be too exact for a non-busy-loop method of waiting), which must be calibrated to the processor speed of the machine. Hence, the kernel measures at boot time how fast a certain kind of busy loop runs on a computer. "Bogo" comes from "bogus", i.e, something which is a fake. Hence, the BogoMips value gives some indication of the processor speed, but it is way too unscientific to be called anything but BogoMips. The reasons (there are two) it is printed during boot-up is that a) it is slightly useful for debugging and for checking that the computer[’]s caches and turbo button work, and b) Linus loves to chuckle when he sees confused people on the news. [...]```I was wondering what BogoMIPS was, and wikipedia had this.
gollark: ```Architecture: x86_64CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bitByte Order: Little EndianCPU(s): 8On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7Thread(s) per core: 2Core(s) per socket: 4Socket(s): 1NUMA node(s): 1Vendor ID: GenuineIntelCPU family: 6Model: 42Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31240 @ 3.30GHzStepping: 7CPU MHz: 1610.407CPU max MHz: 3700.0000CPU min MHz: 1600.0000BogoMIPS: 6587.46Virtualization: VT-xL1d cache: 32KL1i cache: 32KL2 cache: 256KL3 cache: 8192KNUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts```
gollark: I think it's a server thing.
gollark: My slightly newer SomethingOrOther 5000 does too.
gollark: ```Architecture: x86_64CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bitByte Order: Little EndianCPU(s): 4On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3Thread(s) per core: 1Core(s) per socket: 4Socket(s): 1NUMA node(s): 1Vendor ID: AuthenticAMDCPU family: 23Model: 1Model name: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Quad-Core ProcessorStepping: 1CPU MHz: 3338.023CPU max MHz: 3500.0000CPU min MHz: 1550.0000BogoMIPS: 6989.03Virtualization: AMD-VL1d cache: 32KL1i cache: 64KL2 cache: 512KL3 cache: 4096KNUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor smca```What clear, useful output.

References
  1. "Oddest book title prize". The Guardian. August 30, 2008. Retrieved October 3, 2012. As the Diagram prize launches the search for the oddest book title of the last 30 years, we gather together some of the strongest contenders from the award's glorious history
  2. "15 Most Insanely Titled Books". Oddee. September 25, 2008. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  3. "Living with Crazy Buttocks". Penguin Books South Africa. Archived from the original on April 21, 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  4. Burkardt, John (2007-06-01). "The Oddest Book Titles". John Burkardt. Archived from the original on 2008-03-10. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
  5. "Distinctively odd". BBC. Retrieved October 3, 2012. Greek postmen, the history of marmalade and opportunities to widen the uses of straw: it seems there is no book too odd to get into print.
  6. Worldcat
  7. "Australian Humour > Living with Crazy Buttocks". Bookworm. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2009.


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