(21:43) Tristan: you realise of course that what you're doing here is filing bugreports for linguistic theories, which are kind of like computer programs
(21:43) Tristan: so the "maintainers" are probably going to call you mad
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(21:43) Tristan: you realise of course that what you're doing here is filing bugreports for linguistic theories, which are kind of like computer programs
(21:43) Tristan: so the "maintainers" are probably going to call you mad
"This puzzle is like O(2Where's Waldo)."
"Breton music is like Irish dance music with Iranian instruments."
I'll spare you my escapades of sleep-deprived monitor/keyboard plugging-in (let's just say it was like Who's On First), but:
Leyzer: "I should drop International Relations and take Georgian."
me: "The Georgian language is like international relations."
Shoshana: "Georgian wine maybe…"
20:09:20 [oberon]: You have sun dials because you hope the sun will show up. Without sun, sun dials don't work.
20:09:28 [oberon]: You have universities because you hope 18 year old women will show up.
20:09:31 [oberon]: Same basic argument.
"It's like a little thing in the breakfast nook that's in their way and blares at them at newstime."
21:08:53 [me]: well, I thought "file has vanished" was an interesting way of informing me of it
21:09:09 [oberon]: Well, as far as rsync was concerned, that's what happened
21:09:20 [oberon]: one minute there's a file, the next minute there's not a file
21:09:43 [me]: yeah
21:09:49 [me]: I suppose that could be called vanishing
21:09:51 [oberon]: Would you prefer "file has committed glorious harikari, and will ride the divine wind to its 70 virgins"?
21:11:07 [me]: heh
21:11:08 [me]: yes
21:11:44 [oberon]: So go edit the rsync source =P
21:11:50 [oberon]: or even the binary
21:11:54 [oberon]: just ask grep...
21:12:21 [me]: nah
21:12:28 [me]: I already don't trust rsync
21:12:31 [oberon]: lol
21:12:32 [me]: not going to screw with its binary
21:17:27 [oberon]: Am I the only one who thinks that 70 number is kinda arbitrary?
21:17:33 [oberon]: I've always sorta wondered about that
21:17:43 [oberon]: I mean, it's not like they're all useful at once
21:18:07 [oberon]: The sort of thing you do with virgins is not something you can do with 70 without engineered infrastructure and supports
21:18:37 [oberon]: Is the next verse of the Qu'aran something about "and you will also receive a house so large, it requires 65 people to keep it clean?"
…
21:31:26 [oberon]: That's still counting on an awful lot of women to die virgins
21:31:34 [oberon]: And I don't think infant mortality counts here
21:34:05 [oberon]: Maybe 70 is just an average
21:34:09 [oberon]: and it's really determined by annual ratios
21:34:47 [oberon]: so, like, if you have a string of really unsexy years, 'cause the plague hits or the 70s happen or something, you get more virgins, so everyone gets 71.2 or something
21:35:47 [oberon]: So it's more like "I got 70 virgins*" and then in fine print: "*results not typical. Actual results may vary. Consult your doctor before..."
Jonathan: "Matt, what sorting algorithm are you using?"
Matt: "MattSort."
Jonathan: "That means that if you know the original state of the cards, you can recalculate which cards everyone has."
Matt: "No, because it's O(...look over there!)"
Jurgen: "You know, some people say I'm hard—I don't think I'm that hard."
Jonathan: "Well, you're flexible."
classmate: "You're the xantham gum of professors."
Avram: "Flexible, but still with integrity."
"No, you don't get it. Domino's is bad pizza for the same reason steak is bad pizza."
00:35:10 [sn withheld]: Listening to Blümchen on a crowded bus is like having pink toenails.
"IE 6 is the Netscape 4 of today."
"Measuring an artlang by the number of speakers is like measuring the importance of a painting by the number of postcards sold with its picture on it."
Cinga: Ah. Now I get a java.net:UnknownHostException.
Cinga: There seems to be an Exception for every situation.
Rentantilus: it's like the English language!
"That's the problem switching between French and Spanish—in Spanish you roll your 'r's; in French, you xkhqkh your 'r's."
21:56:01 [me]: yeah, what's up with that? Freckles and red hair are like signs of evilness or something
21:56:13 [Vickie]: well id love to have red hair
21:56:38 [me]: yeah, but you also don't mind being evil
(15:25:24) Qatharsis: Though it's more like /awa/ in quick speech. Then again, Bäärner never speak any quicker than a Zürcher on Valium with two spoons of peanut butter in his mouth.
"You didn't know that song was in 6-4, did you? You say pətejɾəw; I say pətejɾəw and pətɑɾəw. You say təmejɾəw; I say təmejɾəw and təmɑɾəw."
"It [the bottle of vodka] is not a microphone. Drink."
"There's almost as many crows as there was percent alcohol in that beer."
(13:06:16) Derek: I wanted to say thanks for speaking Kazakh (etc) around me all the time
(13:06:41) Derek: I think it's giving me a big edge in my Uighur class right now
(13:07:28) Derek: Turkic seems familiar to me instead of something strange, which is something the other students I would say definitely lack ;)
"Well, he just came from America, where people have jobs and have to do stuff, but now he's in Central Asia, where people drink tea."
"Chomsky would always cut people's feet off so he didn't have to step on their toes."
(00:45:36) [me]: I think I'd summarise Hawai'ian as (C)V
14:13:02 [Rianna]: yeah...fanfiction is like...free literary crack
14:13:32 [Rianna]: It is really fun, generally not too good for you, but you keep coming back for more each time you quit :-p
"This tastes like melted lollipops."
Shoshana: "You know what this sounds like?"
Josh: "Yanni on crack?"
21:24:31 [Hannah]: http://community.livejournal.com/baaaaabyanimals/1902984.html?#cutid1
21:24:32 [Hannah]: eew?
21:28:01 [me]: rofl, what is that, an aardvark?
21:28:19 [Hannah]: yeah
21:28:23 [me]: it's like a proto-mamal
21:28:26 [Hannah]: lol
21:28:28 [me]: it is!
21:28:41 [Hannah]: not cute is what it is
21:29:10 [me]: like, its feet are kind of prehistoric-looking, it's body is generic mamal, and it's head's evolved for sniffing out and sucking up ants
21:29:20 [me]: it's head's like the only part of it that's evolved
20:27:37 [me]: btw, your husband seems to bear some uncanny resemblance to Tom Cruise
20:28:23 [Amanda]: you think he looks like tom cruise?!
20:28:24 [Amanda]: that's awesome
20:28:28 [Amanda]: i think he looks like a chicken
20:28:32 [Amanda]: ... a cute one tho
[00:00] Aaron B: eel is like fish that got mutated...
[00:00] Aaron B: i bet if you genetically combined a sheep and a fish, the first few would come out like eels.
"On a scale of 1 to movies that didn't need be remade, that's a Lion King 1½."
"You call it silly string, I call it semen."
Shawn: "He's so gay. He must spend at least 3 hours on his moustache alone in the morning!"
Michaela: "Oh, come on–you know you like girls who do that."
(00:40:12) [me]: why do you keep comparing me to a squirrel?
(00:40:19) Оберон: I dunno.
(00:40:19) [me]: don't you have some sort of vendetta against them?
(00:40:35) Оберон: Not really, I just think they're tree-rats
(00:40:42) Оберон: whereas Anna thinks they're like little cats with big tails
"This is soo cute. This is like middle school on crack."
"I really don't understand people who like opera, and I mean like Klingon opera and Wagner. And yes, I equate those two."
"American Tongues sounds like a porno."
"I think I'm addicted to violence like you're addicted to gay porn."
Nat: "If you keep speaking French, I'll be forced to hit you."
Jonathan: "What's wrong with French?"
Nat: "French sounds like ass."
Matt: "Nat, I don't know what your ass sounds like."
Nat: "I can show you."
Matt: "If it sounds like French, then okay."
[in a seductive voice]
"You say you like prime numbers? Well.... I've got something that's only divisible by one.. and itself."
Jon: "I've got a sugary beverage in my pants."
oberon: "Uh, Jon, that's not a beverage."
Jon: "No, more like a protein shake."
followed by oberon confused and grossed out, spending 30 seconds trying to come up with a "shaken, not stirred" joke and failing
Nat: "You wanna try my cheese popcorn?"
oberon: "I'll try anything food-like—ooh, that's not so much like food."
Jonathan: "Well, emacs has its advantages..."
Aaron: "Yeah, like it's an operating system. I'd rather use emacs as my OS than Windows."
oberon: "What's that?"
Adam: "It's kinda like a little playground toy that kills kids."
(02:36:12) Оберон: Someone trying to probe my web server for Windows security holes is like someone trying to probe me for female holes
(02:36:36) Оберон: It may not be rape but it still leaves me feeling dirty
Jonathan: "Freckles are good."
Jess: "Yeah, they're like little specks of chocolate."
(05:22:02) Оберон: I've learned to swim with the weasels somewhat
(05:22:19) Оберон: but trying to figure out what women think is attractive is like trying to build a 7 pointed cube
(05:23:03) Оберон: Weasels should have dorsal fins
(05:23:06) Оберон: it would help my analogies
"Cat's cradle is like programming—you just put strings together. Why do you think they call it multi-threaded?"
"By the way, don't get the veggie wrap the way they normally make it; it's like 30% veggie and 70% mayonnaise. It's mystery-sauce-alicious."
Jonathan: "I showed someone this picture and they said 'Whoa, how did you get Brandeis not to look like a post-apocolyptic wasteland?'"
Mark: "But you didn't show them this one. The background looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland."
Jonathan: "But there's Volen in the background."
Mark: "Yeah, that's like the post-apocalyptic command centre."
"This e-mail was awful—it was like in another language. It was worse than the Justice, okay?"
Matt: "I don't care if the TV is depressed—only if it commits suicide."
oberon: "What if it turns off DDR every 10 minutes and complains that no one loves it?"
Matt: "Well, I do that, but nobody seems to notice."
(02:53:13) оберон(l): I own most of your recent quotes page
(02:53:27) оберон(l): I'm like some weird expansionist empire
(02:53:50) оберон(l): with an army of contextlessness and a desire solely for territory
(02:53:54) оберон(l): or possibly not.
(02:53:58) оберон(l): not at all, really.
(02:54:05) оберон(l): But I like the phrase "army of contextlessness"
(01:45:50) оберон: Women are like my broken window shade.
(01:45:58) оберон: You can pull as hard as you want, but it's not going to change anything
(01:46:08) оберон: and the only solution is to jam them between your bed and the wall with a heavy blanket
(01:46:26) оберон: see, I have the gift if stupalogy
(01:46:29) оберон: it's not quite stupid
(01:46:33) оберон: and it's not quite an analogy
(01:46:38) оберон: and people are just so shocked they smile and nod
(01:46:57) оберон: and don't think to question how it is, exactly, that women are like a piece of plastic rolled over a metal bar.
(01:47:16) оберон: if they did, though, I'd calmly explain that it has to do with the sprinsg.
(01:47:18) оберон: springs, even.
(01:47:55) оберон: Life is like a fire alarm: you wish it would just stay nice and quiet but it never does and you always end up all wet.
(01:48:23) оберон: Now in actuality, a fire alarm is a device which goes "BUZZ" and life is a bunch of organic compounds wiggling about. But people buy it anyway
(01:45:30) оберон: Women are like telephones. They ring when you don't want them to, they don't ring when you want them to, and they have a tendency to wake you in the middle of the night.
(01:44:27) оберон: Women are like toasters. You've got to wait for a bit, and then they go ding. And if you keep waiting, you get a fire. And then you get a guy beating you senseless with a chair.
"You keep asking questions—I feel like I'm in the Matrix, you know, and these bullets are flying by me and I'm dodging them."
(01:41:03) [me]: my modem doesn't like handshaking
(01:41:18) Kesuari: my cat doesn't either.
(22:35:45) Casoar: i imagine i'd play that in realplayer, which seems to be more like realcrasher on my computer
(20:09:08) Kathryn: i might not be able to understand it, but i know french when i hear it
(20:09:15) Kathryn: it's like pornography
(21:37:49) Ver D Antforest: he's so creative with his expletives. His Tourette's is like an expletive generating gift from God
"That's quality. It's like a monkey meets Fred Astaire." or "That's quality. It's like a monkey named Fredistan."
"You look like the magic pumpkin or whatever, but blue."
"This is worse than like F-type Turkish prisons."
"Actually AIMI is cheating on Oscar with Oscar. AIMI gives Oscar what Oscar gives her."
"It's like reading a really bad love story about a Colombian drug cartel and his love affair in Baja California."
"She's like that Justice Brandeis guy come back as a Turkish girl!"
(13:35:56) [me]: oh man teleportation would solve so many problems wouldn't it
(13:36:04) [me]: I'm only just starting to see the potential
(13:36:11) Michael: well it would probably create more problems than it would solve
(13:36:20) [me]: oh?
(13:37:33) Michael: well... obviously security would have to be completely rethought.. or i guess it would just be more like network security
(13:38:09) Michael: i mean, can you imagine? illegal immigration would turn into like a DoS attack
(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
"Air is small."
(01:50:24) Sarah: Like [his] ex and her "fiance" - they're doing fostering. [She] doesn't need children, EVAR.
(01:50:45) Sarah: It's like giving a child with autism to a 2 year old to take care of.
(01:51:26) Sarah: I'm going to Hell for that analogy.
(10:03:38) Michael: people think that the internet is the closed system of pipes, but it's more like mail-carriers all running around, out in the open
(15:53:42) Sarah: My brain is like a supernova - it's so pretty when it explodes, but so dangerous.
Жыкы: "Америкада ушундай свободность жок."
Jonathan: "Туура, биз көчөдө пиво ичсек, полиция көрсө, биз сразу качып кетиш керек эле."
Жыкы: "Быякта наоборот, милиция көрсөң, сразу "Ооо!" деген..."
(22:46:56) Анара: хотя снова я скажу это что
(22:47:05) Анара: Kazakh girlz rulez!!!
(22:47:24) Анара: больше чем кыргызки и другие номадки
Jonathan: "What's Microsoft encumbered technology?"
oberon: "SOAP. That's why Nat never showers."
Jonathan: "Wait, what? ... Oh."
oberon: "I think chunks of shampoo are owned by Sun."
Left-over master's thesis? Those things are like a surgeon's tool that gets left inside the body.
(23:17:03) [me]: ROFL
(23:17:08) Aaron B: ?
(23:18:29) [me]: just the way you talk about phonology
(23:18:38) Aaron B: how's that?
(23:18:45) Aaron B: like it's baseball cards?
(23:19:01) [me]: hah, no, like the actually processes are people
(23:19:08) Aaron B: oh, they totally are
(23:19:12) Aaron B: that's how i understand things
(23:19:18) Aaron B: segments are "doods"
(23:19:21) Aaron B: processes are things doods do
(23:19:41) Aaron B: constraints are like guys with whips
(23:19:55) Aaron B: bein' all like "dood, do this or i'll whip you"
(23:20:00) Aaron B: but then higher ranked constraints have bigger whips
(23:20:15) Aaron B: and are like "yeah, i know the dood to my right is going to whip you, but imma whip you harder if you don't satisfy me"
(19:13:11) kesuari: well, i suppose they say one way to become a great artist is to copy everyone else
(19:13:26) kesuari: well, copy the great artists i mean
(19:13:37) kesuari: someone who wanted to paint well shouldn't copy any drawings i've done
(21:47:20) Sarah: I think I'd have rather went to the leper colony with my parents than be swamped by old ladies.
(21:48:33) Sarah: The leper colony is historical, therefore cool.
(21:48:40) Sarah: Old people are NOT historical, unless they have neat stories...they're just old.
(19:34:54) ***kesuari bags jon all the time, but jon doesn't always notice it
(19:35:12) [me]: no, I just can't tell
(19:35:15) [me]: I notice that something's up
(19:35:19) [me]: and consider that as a possibility
(19:35:25) [me]: but can't always tell if it's the right one
(19:35:37) kesuari: it's like shakespearean comedy, except with insults, not sex
(04:01:06) Aladnsane: *shrug* Go to a college bar. Throw a rock. Whoever shouts 'ouch' is 10:1 to have an IQ between... 10 and 1.
Jonathan: "Yeah, it's a couple people taking advantage of one group's suffering to take advantage of another group's generosity to take advantage of another group's money."
Rianna: "It's like one big orgy of screw-overage."
Lara: "Hm, it smells like animals in here."
anonymous: "It's all the Kyrgyz."
"Money makes the world go 'round. In a most delightful way."
Jonathan: "I mean, in Kazakhstan a cellphone is like a toothbrush, but in America, it's more like a bicycle."
Michael: "I donno, I knew some people in Kazakhstan who didn't brush their teeth, but you can bet they had a phone."
(17:59:56) kesuari: reading 19th century writing is fun
(18:00:02) kesuari: books were often basically blogs :)
(03:46:50) Michael T: why do you think rice-a-roni was such a big hit ?
(03:46:52) Michael T: it was based on plov
"Anthropology's just racist folklore."
"It's like he's the movie Speed, but a Mongolist."
"It's just all these narratives that're very ... like, whatever the adjective of ‘Lion King’ would be."
(03:55:29) taylskid: well they get the girl
(03:55:36) taylskid: so they don't care about the other stuff
(03:55:45) jonorthwash: yeah
(03:55:50) jonorthwash: "get"
(03:56:18) jonorthwash: not in the romance movie sense of the word
(03:56:38) jonorthwash: more like in the horror movie sense of the word
Fran: "So I was at the bar at the airport and there was someone on the TV saying that banning same-sex marriage should be up to the states."
me: "Yeah... ☹"
Fran: "And murder legalised by school-district."
me: "Wait, what??"
Fran: "Well, I'm extrapolating."