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.
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
Oz ,'Him'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[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.
erikaj - Apr 22, 2005 10:38:20 am PDT #5191 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2005 10:41:57 am PDT #5192 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
brenda m - Apr 22, 2005 10:44:13 am PDT #5193 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
erikaj - Apr 22, 2005 10:44:49 am PDT #5194 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, go read Natter. We're all playing the world's smallest violins for her.
-t - Apr 22, 2005 10:46:26 am PDT #5195 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
Maria - Apr 22, 2005 10:47:26 am PDT #5196 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
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.
tommyrot - Apr 22, 2005 10:49:45 am PDT #5197 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
Betsy HP - Apr 22, 2005 10:51:23 am PDT #5198 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
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!
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2005 10:53:22 am PDT #5199 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
-t - Apr 22, 2005 10:53:39 am PDT #5200 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just hope they keep the "such that" and "for all" and "there exists" symbols, because I lurve them. I wish they were on keyboards so I could throw them into every single thing I write.
(edited because, while exits exist, I don't know the symbol for them being there, other than EXIT)