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Greetings to the Stupid
Dear Bergen County Drivers,
Yes, I know the big flashing lights are scary, especially when there are a lot of ambulances. However, a road accident on the OTHER SIDE of a divided highway separated with a JERSEY BARRIER from you does not justify a SEVEN MILE GAWKER BACKUP.
No Love,
Me
Dear Miss B.'s Fourth Grade Teacher,
If you insist on writing a precis of the Social Studies reading assignment and having the students copy it and study it BEFORE reading the reading assignment, please make it MATCH what the reading assignment says. We have a hard enough time keeping the peace between you and Miss B. without having to explain to her that she needs to give you back on the test the information you wrote even though it doesn't match the reading material.
P.S. 'Ancestor'-- you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Irritably,
ME
Dear System Administrator,
If you mean "the patch runs as a shutdown script" but you actually *write* "the vulnerability runs as a shutdown script" don't even think of treating me like an idiot for not understanding what you meant. Bugger off and take your attitude with you.
Out of patience,
Me
Yes, I know the big flashing lights are scary, especially when there are a lot of ambulances. However, a road accident on the OTHER SIDE of a divided highway separated with a JERSEY BARRIER from you does not justify a SEVEN MILE GAWKER BACKUP.
No Love,
Me
Dear Miss B.'s Fourth Grade Teacher,
If you insist on writing a precis of the Social Studies reading assignment and having the students copy it and study it BEFORE reading the reading assignment, please make it MATCH what the reading assignment says. We have a hard enough time keeping the peace between you and Miss B. without having to explain to her that she needs to give you back on the test the information you wrote even though it doesn't match the reading material.
P.S. 'Ancestor'-- you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Irritably,
ME
Dear System Administrator,
If you mean "the patch runs as a shutdown script" but you actually *write* "the vulnerability runs as a shutdown script" don't even think of treating me like an idiot for not understanding what you meant. Bugger off and take your attitude with you.
Out of patience,
Me
Token?
Hm... for those who have seen it, do you consider "Unshelved" http://www.unshelved.com/ a niche-only comic?
Well, there went the afternoon.
Ursula Vernon has a Deviant Art Gallery:
http://ursulav.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://ursulav.deviantart.com/gallery/
Psuedoscholarship, taxonomy, and cutlery
Cutlery and Utensils: A Brief Taxonomic Study of the Evolution of Eusociality in the Kitchen:
http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/6484985.html
http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/6484985.html
How to make Figgee (pudding)
1. Sign up to bring a vegetable side dish for the Library Holiday Lunch.
2. Fuss over what period dish to bring this year. Decide on Flooded Apples.
3. At the last minute (the day before the day before) decide instead to make Figgy Pudding.
4. Look up the 2 recipes for Figgee in Take a Thousand Eggs.( Read more... )
2. Fuss over what period dish to bring this year. Decide on Flooded Apples.
3. At the last minute (the day before the day before) decide instead to make Figgy Pudding.
4. Look up the 2 recipes for Figgee in Take a Thousand Eggs.( Read more... )
This is a joke!
The laws of Xmas, written as if Xmas were a Jewish holiday (only secular customs taken into account).
If you are familiar with Jewish law, please put down any food or drink before clicking.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/6661/other/xmas.html
If you are familiar with Jewish law, please put down any food or drink before clicking.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/6661/other/xmas.html
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Terminology question
If I were to tell you that I practice an "Officer Obie" style of documentation, would you know I meant...
[Unknown site tag]"twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography."
As in this: http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Ewww/make_www/ssh_ftp_web.html
(And yes, 3 years after I left, Lehigh still has pages linked on the help pages that I wrote. Most of them have not been changed. There's one for using Mozilla Composer. Another for Dreamweaver 2004. 'Nuff said.)
[Unknown site tag]"twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography."
As in this: http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Ewww/make_www/ssh_ftp_web.html
(And yes, 3 years after I left, Lehigh still has pages linked on the help pages that I wrote. Most of them have not been changed. There's one for using Mozilla Composer. Another for Dreamweaver 2004. 'Nuff said.)
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In case you didn't know library techies were wierd
In which someone wraps his boss's office with tinfoil, papers another office with Post-it notes, etc. http://borkweb.com/
I should not be allowed to see this. I am already having deep dark plans for the return of my boss from her sabbatical. :)
I should not be allowed to see this. I am already having deep dark plans for the return of my boss from her sabbatical. :)
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Stop the movie. I have to blog.
Just for Pedro-- from The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines:
"Hippos like chocolate."
"Hippos like chocolate."
Ganked from someone or other
Grading undergraduate essays as a text adventure game:
http://eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com/176383.html
http://eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com/176383.html
In which Springer and Kramer Fail to Get the Joke
Something I quoted in my "Beyond the Herb-Wife" presentation, about the certain witchcraft-related beliefs, from the MALLEUS MALEFICARUM
http://www.malleusmaleficarum.org/part_II/mm02a07a.html
And what, then, is to be thought of those witches who in this way sometimes collect male organs in great numbers, as many as twenty or thirty members together, and put them in a bird's nest, or shut them up in a box, where they move themselves like living members, and eat oats and corn, as has been seen by many and is a matter of common report? It is to be said that it is all done by devil's work and illusion, for the senses of those who see them are deluded in the way we have said. For a certain man tells that, when he had lost his member, he approached a known witch to ask her to restore it to him. She told the afflicted man to climb a certain tree, and that he might take which he liked out of the nest in which there were several members. And when he tried to take a big one, the witch said: You must not take that one; adding, because it belongs to a parish priest.
http://www.malleusmaleficarum.org/part_II/mm02a07a.html
watch your back
Today the drive in to work was total chaos. I was late, and we have now reached the point where there are 6 different work zones in my 45 mile commute, and even after 9:00 am there are points where it takes 10-20 minutes to go 2 miles because the road is at capacity. I have become somewhat used to NJ traffic but after the 3rd car IN A ROW cut me off, I was out of patience.
That 3rd car-- had a "Smile God Loves You" bumper sticker on it.
To prove that I am evil, I rolled down my window and shouted, "Would Jesus drive like that?" (No, I don't have Intermittent Rage Disorder. I'm just an irritable bitch.)
( Read more... )
That 3rd car-- had a "Smile God Loves You" bumper sticker on it.
To prove that I am evil, I rolled down my window and shouted, "Would Jesus drive like that?" (No, I don't have Intermittent Rage Disorder. I'm just an irritable bitch.)
( Read more... )
scientific language?
Mostly for col_munson, but fun anyway:
Poul Anderson's "Uncleftish Beholdings," atomic science in Germanic words only:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.language.artificial/msg/69250bac6c7cbaff
Poul Anderson's "Uncleftish Beholdings," atomic science in Germanic words only:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.language.artificial/msg/69250bac6c7cbaff
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Tech writing rant
If you are not a writer and don't work with techies, you need not put down your food and/or drink before reading this. All others be warned. http://neptune.spacebears.com/opine/style.html