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Old 05-11-2008, 08:46 AM   #76
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oh, was he ? i didn't think you were in the room at the time.
Really? You didn't see the wistful, faraway look in his opthalmic diodes when he said it?

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Old 05-11-2008, 08:49 AM   #77
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Really? You didn't see the wistful, faraway look in his opthalmic diodes when he said it?

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i did, but he always looks that way ; it's the myopia. confusing, i know.
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Old 05-11-2008, 08:50 AM   #78
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i did, but he always looks that way ; it's the myopia. confusing, i know.
[sigh]...I am spleen-broken (it's okay though, Adrian...I've another in the fridge).

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Old 05-11-2008, 10:10 AM   #79
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unusual nick: blunznwurscht
Translated: blood saussage saussage, or black pudding saussage.
It's funny because a "blunzn" already implies that it is a saussage, so adding a "saussage" is redundantly redundant.
Like "The Le Bistro" ...

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Old 05-11-2008, 10:58 PM   #80
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I'm jealous!!!! But I did love the cartoon enough to save a copy of it. Must learn to draw; win back cuuuuute Planethead.
Back from Borders, my weekly browse through titles and next installment in the slow seduction of the funky cute counter clerk, where I was stopped in my tracks by a new book in the Science section, "Love + Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships".

I immediately thought of you, followed by thinking of Xena, then laughing a quickly cut short laugh of the type favored by the walking insane at the fact that Robot-Human Love/Sex made me think of Xena the Warrior Princess and deep dish pizza. This place is poking around in the already faulty wiring of my brain.

This is clearly a book I need to buy if only for the look of mixed shock and intense curiosity it'd elicit from Miss Funky Cute.
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Old 05-12-2008, 05:40 AM   #81
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clearly there is hope for Marvin one day feeling significantly less depressed. makes my heart feel all warm and squbbly for him.
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Old 05-12-2008, 10:24 AM   #82
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Actually, maybe it's only funny to me. Although, SOMEbody bothered to make up the button. It's more of a Math thing, than computers. Us Mathematicians are always saying "X + Y >= 500" " for sufficiently large values of X". The button just takes it to absurd.

Okay, how about the other button: 6 * 9 = 42 (base 13) which charmed me no end when I first found it.
The button comes from the disdain that mathematicians have for physicists. Math uses precise values for integers. Physicists have a propensity to round off. So, 2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8, rounded up to 5 if the significant digit protocol for the calculation is one. For some reason this distresses mathematicians.
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Old 05-12-2008, 04:58 PM   #83
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The button comes from the disdain that mathematicians have for physicists. Math uses precise values for integers. Physicists have a propensity to round off. So, 2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8, rounded up to 5 if the significant digit protocol for the calculation is one. For some reason this distresses mathematicians.
COOL!!! I never thought of that, despite having both a Math and Physics bachelors. Thank you!!
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Old 05-12-2008, 06:17 PM   #84
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I would have thought defenestrate might have derived from German due to the similarity of the German word "fenster". But the "de" prefix does seem to point to Latin

My personal favorite is heteroscadasticity. Not to be confused with homoscadasticity. Ran into this combination while working on my dissertation.
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Old 05-12-2008, 06:18 PM   #85
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By no means, to my mind anyway. I have a button that says "Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac".
Hey, Deb. How often do you push that button?
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Old 05-12-2008, 06:35 PM   #86
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I would have thought defenestrate might have derived from German due to the similarity of the German word "fenster". But the "de" prefix does seem to point to Latin
i've always been intrigued by this as well. in french window is "fenêtre" and we have the verb "défenestrer." these words come from the latin "fenestra". i don't know what the origin of "Fenster" is but i would like it if a german could tell me...
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I found "deaccession" today, and also "matagalp", which I comprehend through the context, supposedly a word use in the Phillipines, but I don't know in which language. Any Filipinos here?
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Old 05-14-2008, 01:19 AM   #88
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Hey, Deb. How often do you push that button? "Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac".
Quite frequently, apparently. I love the wry and clever humo(u)r found here! Karma to everybody!
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Robot-Human Love/Sex made me think of Xena the Warrior Princess and deep dish pizza. This place is poking around in the already faulty wiring of my brain.
We aim to please --- messing with your wiring is why this whole forum / site is here, isn't it?!

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