https://nickm.com/post/2009/12/i-dont-make-this-up/ Nick Montfort Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:00:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://nickm.com/post/2009/12/i-dont-make-this-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1158 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:00:46 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=580#comment-1158 I think a “jailbait” category would have been useful. You know, like I’m always looking for the “hapa” category for “ethnicity.”

]]> https://nickm.com/post/2009/12/i-dont-make-this-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1105 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:57:18 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=580#comment-1105 It beats cheerily informing people that there will be a “separate program for wives” (I have secondhand reports that a physics conference in recent history had informed attendees of this).

]]> https://nickm.com/post/2009/12/i-dont-make-this-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:51:29 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=580#comment-1104 engrish is funny

]]> https://nickm.com/post/2009/12/i-dont-make-this-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1102 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:56:06 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=580#comment-1102 Perhaps it is an Australian conference? They often use ‘mate’ for male/female friend, (not as in ‘cohabitational recreactional facility’). In fact the last Prime Minister even wanted the concept of mateship put into their constitution!

]]> https://nickm.com/post/2009/12/i-dont-make-this-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1101 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:21:36 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=580#comment-1101 So…does she/he just gets to choose what to be in the morning? Sometimes we’d all like to be a child once more. It’s too bad I wasn’t aware of that incredible power of students before.

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