Yeah, go read Natter. We're all playing the world's smallest violins for her.
Xander: Am I right, Giles? Giles: I'm almost certain you're not. Though, to be fair, I haven't been
listening.
'Sleeper'
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 10:44:49 am PDT #5194 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
-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)
Steph L. - Apr 22, 2005 10:54:12 am PDT #5201 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
I think so, too! However, they don't accept that reasoning as "logical." WhatEV. Like "logic" has anything to do with it....
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2005 10:54:29 am PDT #5202 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
God, yes, -t. I find myself reaching typographically for that flipped "E" all the time.
-t - Apr 22, 2005 10:55:55 am PDT #5203 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Rats, I was hoping you'd throw some handy html that would bring them to life at me, ita.