Define 'helpful'?
I could, but I'm distracted. I'm currently ploughing through some dodgy VBA code, that has a parameter for the Number of Observations. They've named it 'NObs'. My inner twleve-year-old is having trouble getting past it.
Never send a minion to do a god's work.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!
[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.
billytea - Feb 09, 2006 7:49:51 pm PST #8408 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Feb 09, 2006 7:49:53 pm PST #8409 of 10001
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Say, Billytea, Bitches has gone all non-American all of a sudden! Shall we talk about cricket?
eta: I'm in Bitches, not Natter. Doofus...
billytea - Feb 09, 2006 7:53:00 pm PST #8410 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Say, Billytea, Natter has gone all non-American all of a sudden! Shall we talk about cricket?
Not until we win the Ashes back. Apparently the English captain has been mocking our plucky wearers of the baggy green, although without actually mining the comedy gold of 'baggy green'.
Pix - Feb 09, 2006 7:53:22 pm PST #8411 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Oof. How do you unintentionally plagiarise? Was there supposed to be an attribution that got neglected or something?
She's a fairly low-level reader, and she was trying to do an intensive analysis of a short fiction author. I told them to read at least on lit critic to get some ideas for their paper and to take a look at published analysis...well, she tried to write a paper, but what she ended up doing was just summarizing that critic's argument. She honestly doesn't understand the difference between original analysis and summing up someone else's analysis.
The whole thing sucks.
Say, Billytea, Bitches has gone all non-American all of a sudden! Shall we talk about cricket?
Standing right here!
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Feb 09, 2006 7:56:58 pm PST #8412 of 10001
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Not until we win the Ashes back. Apparently the English captain has been mocking our plucky wearers of the baggy green, although without actually mining the comedy gold of 'baggy green'.
Um. Okay. I have absolutely no idea what that's all about as I don't follow cricket. It just seemed like a good England/Australia link that Americans had no interest it. Serves me right for being a smartarse.
So, does England have the Ashes, then? If memory serves, that's quite a novelty.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Feb 09, 2006 7:58:00 pm PST #8413 of 10001
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Standing right here!
Nuh-uh, you were being extra quiet! Even Aims has vanished.
juliana - Feb 09, 2006 7:59:03 pm PST #8414 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
So many awesome Buffistae in here, and I have to go pass out. Damn it. Smooches and hugs all around!
Disappears in a poof of glitter
Pix - Feb 09, 2006 7:59:19 pm PST #8415 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
That's me...QUIET!
billytea - Feb 09, 2006 8:00:01 pm PST #8416 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The whole thing sucks.
Ah, a difficult situation. Incidentally, my desk calendar is offering me the following sick note: "Dear School: Please eckuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33." I feel it should be signed "Epstein's Mother."
Pix - Feb 09, 2006 8:01:23 pm PST #8417 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Sadly, I have to follow Juliana's example now. My head cold has started to eat my brain, and NyQuil and sleep is in my immediate future.
Night all.