Meaning: When representing your group, it's important to be firm, but leave room for that win-win situation.

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Banazir

Meaning: This is how semesters and academic years often begin. As long as this is not how they end, I'm happy.

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Banazir

Meaning: It's important not to let your weaknesses define you.

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Banazir

Meaning: OK, I admit, this is me sometimes.

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Meaning: Sometimes students... dramatize.

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Banazir

Meaning: Put up, or shut up.

(One of zengeneral and masaga's roommates in their undergrad days was Jason Lamm, the third student who worked for me as a sysadmin. After I bought the four 1GHz Athlon XP Thunderbird systems that became known as the "New Elves" from a Russian distributor in 2001, Jason and I used to quote the over-the-top accent that Malkovich's ( Read more... )

Meaning: We redefine "interesting" every day around these here parts.

And while we're quoting Serenity with its Mandarin expressions, consider the apocryphal "Chinese curse", "May you live in interesting times". The closest attested Mandarin proverb that means remotely the same thing is 寧為太平犬，不做亂世人 (níng wéi tàipíng quǎn, bù zuò luànshì rén, " ( Read more... )

(ETA, 10:30 CST Sun 23 Nov 2008: NSFW - nudity, apparently female-only.)

To my knowledge, the above is the seminal (ahem) version of this song/game combination on YouTube. Since it came out, there have been a lot of other versions, including this one, which shows a lot of environments. Here is a secondhand version of the first one I saw - it's ( Read more... )

Meaning: They don't call me "memoryless fishie" for nothing! My short term memory loss isn't a result of a neural lesion, though, so much as massive sleep deprivation and overcommitment to sundry tasks.

Um... who's "they"?

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Banazir

I thought that would get your attention!

In my academic degree poll, I neglected to consider the possibility that some of you might have honorary degrees. I don't, hence the title of this post. Anyone?

Also, for the rest of us, what would your ideal honorary degree be? I'd like Doctor of Humane Algorithms, or perhaps Doctor of Humane Digits if ( Read more... )