'The Message'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I feel a little better now, though I still question the importance of publishing this.
Can you take your concerns to anyone? Or is the decision set in stone?
Eh, people with many more academic degrees than I have are the people who made the decision, and that makes it pretty well set in stone. No big; just seems like a waste of time to edit and paper to print.
I have a whole new respect for your job, Tep. I hate line-editing *me,* and I *care* about "Model Citizen", but I'm bored already. If it was something truly boring/hard to understand? ugh.
Hey P-C - you're gonna come with us when we drive to Gus's house for the 4th of July, right?
Is that for real? I'd have to see what my job situation is like at that time (I hope to be working long before then). My parents want me to take those two weeks off to go to Europe, but I seriously doubt I can do that in like the first month of my employment.
Erika has a new tag.
It's like you took the equal sign (both ends equal, because both values are equivalent) and squished it.
Ooh, I like that, too. But then you don't get to cut out construction paper alligators in math class, and that's just no fun.
Yeah, go read Natter. We're all playing the world's smallest violins for her.
It appears that > and < were "invented" by Thomas Harriot. I have yet to discover how he came up with them. About a century after the introduction of =, for what that's worth. Before that they used something much harder to decipher. Or words. Usually in Latin, because that's what scholars wrote in.
= was used to mean "equals" because it's two equal, parallel line segments and "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle", according to Robert Recorde.
people with many more academic degrees than I have are the people who made the decision
But they are nowhere near as Tep-alicious as you are. So you should prevail.
Is that for real?
We're just gonna show up, whether it's real or not.
Actually, it sounds tentative, but it sounds like some sort of F2F will happen at Gus's.
In formal logic, you use a V for "or" (latin Vel), an upside-down V for "and" (drunk Latin or possibly Australian logician).
I'm betting that really soon the logicians give up and use the symbols the computer scientists mostly use, | (or) and & (and). The typewriter triumphs again!
In at least one of my classes, we used . for either and or or. Don't remember.
But I hope that they don't switch to | & &, just because | is damned hard to read quickly and accurately.