Disclaimer: There are assumptions in here that I do not explicitly state as such. If any of my assertions are incorrect, please let me know ( Read more... )

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Seriously, Eclipse, I almost always love you, but days like this you make me want to take some serious chomps out of your bytecode. Would that your plugin management was not quite so full of hose and suck!

One of the ways that Snickers is currently advertising is through the use of made up words. The one I got on my Snickers bar today was: Substantialiscious \sub-'stan(t)-shu-'li-shus\ (noun). The weight of something when you weigh it with your tongue.
First off, what kind of a sentence is that for a definition? No self-respecting dictionary ( ( Read more... )

I'm having an edgy day--the program that I'm working on is giving me more trouble than usual (in ways that are counterintuitive to me) but since yelling at it doesn't help, I'm going to rant about something that a different supervisor just said. I'm paraphrasing here, but it was something along the lines of, ( We're not here to have fun, we're here to do work. )

Taken from this article, regarding Karl Rove (chief political adviser to President Bush)

"Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers." Conservatives, [Rove] said, "saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war."Yup, leave it to those god- ( Read more... )