I sometimes wonder how they count.
they have trouble taking 10% of a large number
they were bothered by having claculators that couldn't handle enough digits
‘what is 24000 inches in feet?
let's guess until Dr. Washington tells us we're right’
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 29 March 2007
[edit] added: 29 March 2007
[edit] added: 29 March 2007
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[link]
heard: 29 March 2007
[edit] added: 29 March 2007
[edit] added: 29 March 2007
Jonathan: "My favourite translation tool on the internet is to look something up on wikipedia in the source language, and then click the link to the article in the destination language."
Joyce: "Oh yeah, I only ever did that to look up how Star Trek was written in katakana."
star-trek, geekiness, sadness, language, tv, mistranslations, technology, computers, writing, japanese
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[link]
heard: 26 March 2007
[edit] added: 26 March 2007
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 26 March 2007
Jurgen: "So I don't mess it up, how do you pronounce your name?"
Dan: "Dan."
[link]
heard: 21 March 2007
[edit] added: 21 March 2007
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[edit] added: 21 March 2007
(05:51:42) kesuari: yeah. looking at the keyboard while you ty5e is fun.
(05:51:50) kesuari: unless you accidently type a five
[link]
heard: 21 March 2007
[edit] added: 21 March 2007
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 21 March 2007
(05:34:00) kesuari: yeah. i get really bored when i’ve nothing to do; i simply can’t procrastinate from *nothing*
(05:34:13) kesuari: soon as you give me work, then *bamn* i’m not doing it
[link]
heard: 20 March 2007
[edit] added: 21 March 2007
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[edit] added: 21 March 2007
(22:39:59) [me]: like, Proto Turkic has very few colour words
...
(22:41:03) [me]: *sarg = yellow
(22:41:11) [me]: not sure where that's from, actually
(22:50:40) Derek: I went back in time and told them that word
[link]
heard: 19 March 2007
[edit] added: 21 March 2007
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 21 March 2007
"Like, when I smoke in a public place, it's a private public place."
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heard: 21 March 2007
[edit] added: 21 March 2007
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 21 March 2007
(00:31:27) [me]: btw, safeway's website claims that this one is 24hours
(00:31:32) [me]: is it sketchy to go there at 1am?
(00:31:39) Derek: yes
(00:31:47) Derek: you're probably a crack dealer
[link]
heard: 19 March 2007
[edit] added: 19 March 2007
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 19 March 2007
(03:14) cassowary: when the nouveau drivers are released, and i can get video out happening, i’ll plug my MS mouse back into my imac, and have an imac with a dell screen, a sun keyboard, and a microsoft mouse running linux. that will be fun :)
[link]
heard: 18 March 2007
[edit] added: 18 March 2007
[comment] [rate] 3.5/5
[edit] added: 18 March 2007
"How do you say ‘to get dressed’ in Turkish? Well, soymak is ‘to strip’.."
