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Nutty - Oct 14, 2005 9:16:27 am PDT #6219 of 10002

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I am pretty sure "operationalize" was a word coined by the US military. It smacks of that pedigree.

They're curiously inventive with words. They coined "exfiltrate" off of "infiltrate," and a ton of other fun words. Including snafu!

I will forgive a bit of jargon suffixizing for the same of "exfiltrate."

Connie Neil - Oct 14, 2005 9:16:29 am PDT #6220 of 10002

brillig

"The list below reflects the current values of the School, as determined by faculty and students. The bullet points document ways in which each value is operationalized."

When you have nothing to say, invent new words to say it with.

le nubian - Oct 14, 2005 9:16:31 am PDT #6221 of 10002

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

dw, I use operationalize on a weekly basis. No shit. It is a specific term in statistics & research.

Topic!Cindy - Oct 14, 2005 9:19:20 am PDT #6222 of 10002

What is even happening?

I think I love exfiltrate, and I also love the typo I made at first, which was extrilfate.

dw - Oct 14, 2005 9:19:35 am PDT #6223 of 10002

Silence means security silence means approval

Yeah, but it always rains in Seattle.

Yes, but not 91 days in a row.

You don't have an expectation of sunshine.

We have an expectation that it's going to drip like Chin, er, Asian water torture, not come down like God knocked back a 12-pack of Rainier and thinks Seattle is the urinal cake.

I moved to San Francisco at the beginning of the 5 year drought.

I moved to Seattle just in time for the El Nino and La Nina winters of the late 90s.

erikaj - Oct 14, 2005 9:20:00 am PDT #6224 of 10002

Always Anti-fascist!

I've got more orb than Rumsfeld's got excuses...it's probably even finally nice out today.

brenda m - Oct 14, 2005 9:21:47 am PDT #6225 of 10002

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

So far today I have:

Paid my credit card bill
Paid my car insurance
Paid a couple of overdue medical bills
Submitted the bills and some scrips to my FSA
Changed a hotel reservation
Gotten a new drivers license
Checked out the sale pages for grocery shopping this weekend
~~Done actual work that I get paid for~~

Whoops, not that last one. Maybe I should get on that.

Lee - Oct 14, 2005 9:38:38 am PDT #6226 of 10002

The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Do I want to be different and go all the way to Draeger's to get sushi for lunch (and see if they carry the vampire bat from Moonstruck Chocolate), or do I want the mac and cheese I brought in on Wednesday and never ate?

Jesse - Oct 14, 2005 9:38:56 am PDT #6227 of 10002

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMTG you guys, not next week but the week after is going to be the nuttiest, most awesomest week EVER for me. On Tuesday, I'm going to get a makeover from Isaac Mizrahi, and on Thursday, Warren Buffett is flying me to Nebraska.

Wheeeeeeeee!

Kathy A - Oct 14, 2005 9:40:55 am PDT #6228 of 10002

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

ton of other fun words. Including snafu!

I always liked fubar more than snafu--it's so final in its fucked-upness.

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