Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 19

DMcCunney · 08-13-2008, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Why not? I do.

" Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee. "

(Not mine - I'm plagiarising a Vogon, sure to entice their wrath)

T'was finite, and the polar cusp, orthogonal to the secant lay.
The semi-tacnode operates on the Gudermanian of A.
"Beware the integral my son, with shape of non-symmetric bell.
Beware old Van Der Pol, and shun the curious vector del!"

He took his program in his hand. Long hours the real root he saught,
Then rested he by storage drums, and sat a while in thought.
And as in curious thought he sat, the integral without a name
rose from a skewed conformal map, diverging as it came!
Pi e! Pi e! and XYZ! The digital went clicky-clack!
He found the norm in series form, and brought the worksheets back.

"Oh hast thou solved the integral? Here is a raise, my brainish boy!"
He tossed his time cards in the air, and clapped his hands for joy.
T'was finite, and the polar cusp, orthogonal to the secant lay.
The semi-tacnode operates on the Gudermanian of A.

(Not original. Karma to anyone who recognizes the source...

)
______
Dennis

pshrynk · 08-13-2008, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

T'was finite, and the polar cusp, orthogonal to the secant lay.
The semi-tacnode operates on the Gudermanian of A.
"Beware the integral my son, with shape of non-symmetric bell.
Beware old Van Der Pol, and shun the curious vector del!"

He took his program in his hand. Long hours the real root he saught,
Then rested he by storage drums, and sat a while in thought.
And as in curious thought he sat, the integral without a name
rose from a skewed conformal map, diverging as it came!
Pi e! Pi e! and XYZ! The digital went clicky-clack!
He found the norm in series form, and brought the worksheets back.

"Oh hast thou solved the integral? Here is a raise, my brainish boy!"
He tossed his time cards in the air, and clapped his hands for joy.
T'was finite, and the polar cusp, orthogonal to the secant lay.
The semi-tacnode operates on the Gudermanian of A.

(Not original. Karma to anyone who recognizes the source...

)
______
Dennis

Totally a guess, but I'd venture Asimov?

DMcCunney · 08-13-2008, 03:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Totally a guess, but I'd venture Asimov?

Nope, though I understand why you might think so.
______
Dennis

nekokami · 08-13-2008, 04:18 PM

Right now-- cooling down from a hike across campus to register for classes and hand in my tuition waiver form (university employee). I had to manually register because the classes in question are restricted to degree program members, and apparently the system can't tell that I'm admitted to the degree.

Next I'm configuring and testing an alternate WYSIWYG-Sorta editor for our CMS. People don't like the one we have because when they paste in content from MS Word, all kinds of junk ends up in the HTML and the pages never display right. So I'm working on options to automatically strip out all that loverly formatting they spent so much time fiddling with in Word.

zelda_pinwheel · 08-13-2008, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nekokami

Next I'm configuring and testing an alternate WYSIWYG-Sorta editor for our CMS. People don't like the one we have because when they paste in content from MS Word, all kinds of junk ends up in the HTML and the pages never display right. So I'm working on options to automatically strip out all that loverly formatting they spent so much time fiddling with in Word.

...which is exactly the fate that should *always* be reserved for word-generated formatting.

nekokami · 08-13-2008, 04:29 PM

Yes, exactly.

DMcCunney · 08-13-2008, 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nekokami

Next I'm configuring and testing an alternate WYSIWYG-Sorta editor for our CMS.

Which CMS, and which sorta WYSIWYG editor?
______
Dennis

daffy4u · 08-13-2008, 04:53 PM

Looking at the picture of a deceased "BigFoot" supposedly found in Georgia.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2357/has-bigfoot-been-found/

(I actually hope it's the real thing)

BookishDreamer · 08-13-2008, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daffy4u

Looking at the picture of a deceased "BigFoot" supposedly found in Georgia.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2357/has-bigfoot-been-found/

(I actually hope it's the real thing)

Georgia? Georgia USA or the other Georgia that is currently having problems with Russia? Not sure I want to live in a state where both bigfoot and hogzilla roamed. What other kind of crazy creatures are hiding around here? Maybe I should consider moving to another state. Or country for that matter. I could be very happy in Scotland, especially Edinburgh.

Dreamer

nekokami · 08-13-2008, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

Which CMS, and which sorta WYSIWYG editor?
______
Dennis

Drupal, and TinyMCE.

daffy4u · 08-13-2008, 06:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BookishDreamer

Georgia? Georgia USA or the other Georgia that is currently having problems with Russia? Not sure I want to live in a state where both bigfoot and hogzilla roamed. What other kind of crazy creatures are hiding around here? Maybe I should consider moving to another state. Or country for that matter. I could be very happy in Scotland, especially Edinburgh.

Dreamer

Maybe that's why his feet are so big. He walked from the Georgia in Russia to the Georgia in the U.S. and right into... your back yard!

DMcCunney · 08-13-2008, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nekokami

Drupal, and TinyMCE.

Ah, okay. I'm aware of both, and I've been poking at TinyMCE a bit here.
______
Dennis

montsnmags · 08-13-2008, 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

...
(Not original. Karma to anyone who recognizes the source...

)
______
Dennis

I found the source, and so I won't post it (since the operative word is "recognises"). Thank-you, though, Dennis. I love a good [SNORT!] in the morning.

Cheers,
Marc

RickyMaveety · 08-13-2008, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

T'was finite, and the polar cusp, orthogonal to the secant lay.
The semi-tacnode operates on the Gudermanian of A.
"Beware the integral my son, with shape of non-symmetric bell.
Beware old Van Der Pol, and shun the curious vector del!"

He took his program in his hand. Long hours the real root he saught,
Then rested he by storage drums, and sat a while in thought.
And as in curious thought he sat, the integral without a name
rose from a skewed conformal map, diverging as it came!
Pi e! Pi e! and XYZ! The digital went clicky-clack!
He found the norm in series form, and brought the worksheets back.

"Oh hast thou solved the integral? Here is a raise, my brainish boy!"
He tossed his time cards in the air, and clapped his hands for joy.
T'was finite, and the polar cusp, orthogonal to the secant lay.
The semi-tacnode operates on the Gudermanian of A.

(Not original. Karma to anyone who recognizes the source...

)
______
Dennis

Well, it's clearly a parody of Jabberwocky ... by Lewis Caroll, but who's parody I honestly have no idea.

RWood · 08-13-2008, 09:00 PM

Just for fun I plugged the phrase "He took his program in his hand. Long hours the real root he saught" into Google and the only reference it reported was Dennis' post above.

08-13-2008, 04:18 PM	#274
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Right now-- cooling down from a hike across campus to register for classes and hand in my tuition waiver form (university employee). I had to manually register because the classes in question are restricted to degree program members, and apparently the system can't tell that I'm admitted to the degree. Next I'm configuring and testing an alternate WYSIWYG-Sorta editor for our CMS. People don't like the one we have because when they paste in content from MS Word, all kinds of junk ends up in the HTML and the pages never display right. So I'm working on options to automatically strip out all that loverly formatting they spent so much time fiddling with in Word.

08-13-2008, 04:29 PM	#276
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Yes, exactly.

08-13-2008, 04:53 PM	#278
daffy4u I'm Super Kindle-icious Posts: 6,734 Karma: 2434103 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Long Drive, Calinadia Candafornia Device: KDXG, KT, Oasis	Looking at the picture of a deceased "BigFoot" supposedly found in Georgia. http://www.inquisitr.com/2357/has-bigfoot-been-found/ (I actually hope it's the real thing)

08-13-2008, 09:00 PM	#285
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Just for fun I plugged the phrase "He took his program in his hand. Long hours the real root he saught" into Google and the only reference it reported was Dennis' post above.