Yeah, like the asterisk I'd use when saying,
I haven't really been pursued by many desirable TV celebrities recently*
- except for Alyson Hannigan, and I don't really mind that.
Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Buffistas Building a Better Board
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Noumenon - Dec 05, 2002 10:10:14 pm PST #1886 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 05, 2002 10:20:29 pm PST #1887 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
She can't be your secret celebrity girlfriend, Nou, if you don't even spell her name right!
Noumenon - Dec 05, 2002 10:28:58 pm PST #1888 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
It's the Internet. It's caused me to spell "there" "their," after 24 years of doing it correctly, and now this. I see Allyson's name on the board every day, so it overwrote the correct spelling in my brain. I edited.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 05, 2002 10:32:38 pm PST #1889 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
It's the Internet.
That's no excuse! I'm on the internet too, and I say it right.
Therefore, she is MINE.
I have impeccable logic.
Also, /natter.
Noumenon - Dec 06, 2002 6:42:40 pm PST #1890 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
A little more natter. Internet spelling osmosis is your best chance for getting "Mme" into common usage, so it's not all evil. Also, John H showed me 100,000 misspellings of Britney Spears typed into the Google.com search engine. "Allyson" shames me as a Buffy fan, but it's no "Birtteny."
§ ita § - Dec 06, 2002 9:07:25 pm PST #1891 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The comma quote thing is already fixed. Unless someone has evidence to the contrary.
The search results are ordered by relevance, as determined by the full text engine.
Noumenon - Dec 06, 2002 9:21:31 pm PST #1892 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
And by length, I believe. Or else the fic just shows up by the bottom because it's got a lower ratio of keywords to text. That's probably it.
§ ita § - Dec 06, 2002 9:27:59 pm PST #1893 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Here's the MYSQL explanation:
Every correct word in the collection and in the query is weighted according to its significance in the query or collection. This way, a word that is present in many documents will have lower weight (and may even have a zero weight), because it has lower semantic value in this particular collection. Otherwise, if the word is rare, it will receive a higher weight. The weights of the words are then combined to compute the relevance of the row.
Such a technique works best with large collections (in fact, it was carefully tuned this way). For very small tables, word distribution does not reflect adequately their semantic value, and this model may sometimes produce bizarre results.
I suspect slash (and porn and ita) have little semantic value, what with the omnipresence and stuff.
DXMachina - Dec 06, 2002 9:30:19 pm PST #1894 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I suspect slash (and porn and ita) have little semantic value, what with the omnipresence and stuff.
And 'ita' won't even register, because it's too short.
Beverly - Dec 07, 2002 10:46:29 am PST #1895 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
PF Stompy Foot? Really stinky troll in Buffy American Style, NAFDA equivalent. Stomp, stomp, stomp! Do the dance of squishy trolls!