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[link] heard: 14 September 2008
[edit] added: 14 September 2008

(23:16:35) [my father]: it is normal convention, however. So laTex doesn't know what it is doing

(23:17:04) [my father]: what the hell do you want with something that uses louisiana and texas as its call name

That is not what LaTeX bases its name on!
computers, stupidity, provincialism, linux, technology, southernisms
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[link] heard: 14 September 2008
[edit] added: 14 September 2008

"Have at least one other obsession than linguistics."

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[link] heard: 12 September 2008
[edit] added: 14 September 2008

"You have to like what you do. There's really no other reason to study linguistics."

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[link] heard: 3 September 2008
[edit] added: 14 September 2008

"But Vanya from the provinces is just as clueless about that sort of stuff as Timurbek."

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[link] heard: 25 August 2008
[edit] added: 14 September 2008

"I'm thinking of getting a new game console. Basically the reason being that I don't have a girlfriend. Not that I think it'll help me get one..."

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[link] heard: 22 August 2008
[edit] added: 23 August 2008

"It's my wedding, but I didn't plan it. I'll show up at the appointed place and time and say the appointed things. I'm told there will be food."

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[link] heard: 22 August 2008
[edit] added: 23 August 2008

"This is a reminder that all electronic devices must be turned off. This includes Blackberries, strawberries, blueberries, and lemon meringue pies."

a flight attendant
puns, technology, badness, stupidity
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[link] heard: 18 August 2008
[edit] added: 23 August 2008

"Do you know what I would've done to have a digging tool that went this deep when I was a kid?"

while watching my father use a hand auger
child-like, science, destruction, bad-ideas
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[link] heard: 15 August 2008
[edit] added: 16 August 2008

"I think they're going a little overboard—no pun intended—on this ocean theme."

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[link] heard: 9 August 2008
[edit] added: 15 August 2008

"What's that bean curd stuff?"

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