How to spend Christmas gracefully like Jack

Romaine 2021-10-20 17:24:28

The most basic step is to learn how Jack writes formulas. Because A good formalism is half the job!

The mathematical symbols used by Jack are not familiar to our world. Therefore, we must reproduce these mysterious and elegant symbols in an industrialized and digitalized way in our world:

Jack's Formalism

After the unremitting efforts of this alarm clock, this feat of benefiting mankind was finally completed on Christmas Eve: using LaTeX to automatically generate Jack's Formalism:

Digitization of Jack's Formalism

This alarm clock announces its source code as follows, hoping to make it easier for future generations to spend Christmas more elegantly:

% The CHRISTMAS License

% Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

% Copyright (c) 2020 Xiao Naozhong

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}

\usepackage{physics}

\usepackage{bold-extra}

\usepackage{relsize}

\begin{document}

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+\; \texttt{Sandy}

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Extended Reading
  • Ivah 2021-10-20 19:02:13

    Produced by Tim Burton, he has a peculiar insight. Gothic cartoons older than me are still unconventional and surprising. I just think that the heroine is stitched up on her body. I don't know how many times she has broken her body for freedom and love, and she can still smile so beautifully. Seeing the prototype of the zombie bride, Tim Burton is romantic.

  • Renee 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    I originally gave it 3 stars, but I didn't expect it to be a work from 1993. It seems that the quality is quite high~ Good work, exquisite work against fairy tales

The Nightmare Before Christmas quotes

  • Jack Skellington: [sung] Well, what the heck, I really did my best/And by God I really tasted something swell, that's right/And for a moment, why, I even touched the sky/And at least I left some stories they can tell, I did/And for the first time since I don't remember when/I felt like my old bony self again/And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King...

    Jack Skellington: [spoken] That's right. I AM THE PUMPKIN KING!

    Jack Skellington: [sung] And I just can't wait until next Halloween/'Cause I've got some new ideas that will really make them scream/And by God, I'm really gonna give it all my might!/

    [spoken]

    Jack Skellington: Uh-oh, I hope there's still time to set things right. Sandy Claws...

  • Jack Skellington: [after surviving the fall from the army, sings sadly] What have I done? What have I done? How could I be so blind? All is lost. Where was I? Spoiled all! Spoiled all! Everything's gone all wrong. What have I done? What have I done? Find a deep cave to hide in. In a million years, they'll find me. Only dust, and a plaque that reads: 'Here Lies Poor Old Jack'.