From: kesinger@math.ttu.edu (Jake Kesinger) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW Date: 30 Dec 1999 02:37:53 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Lines: 7 Message-ID: <84egi1$r9m@ttacs7.ttu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ttmath--1.ttu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!news.datacomm.ch!newscore.gigabell.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.btx.dtag.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.tli.de!newsfeed.cwix.com!cabal11.airnews.net!news.airnews.net!news.smu.edu!news.ttu.edu!kesinger You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you read a book on fungi and come across descriptions of ascomycetes and their corresponding ``asci'' and think ``hey, they either need to add an "i" or change that "c" to an "n".'' ==Jake ###### From: nxk3@po.cwru.edu (Natarajan Krishnaswami) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: 30 Dec 1999 03:32:17 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA) Lines: 14 Sender: nxk3@nile.scl.cwru.edu Message-ID: <84ejo1$18u$3@pale-rider.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <84egi1$r9m@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Reply-To: nxk3@po.cwru.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: nile.scl.cwru.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!newspeer.te.net!news.indigo.ie!diablo.theplanet.net!newsfeed.icl.net!news-feed.fnsi.net!nntp.msen.com!usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu!nxk3 On 30 Dec 1999 02:37:53 GMT, Jake Kesinger wrote: > ...you read a book on fungi and come across descriptions of ascomycetes > and their corresponding ``asci'' and think ``hey, they either need to > add an "i" or change that "c" to an "n".'' Or you think of supercomputers.... (But those make me want to add an extra 'i', too. ;-) -- you have been evaluated. you have a negative reference count. prepare to be garbage collected. persistence is futile. -- Erik Naggum ###### From: dpeschel@u.washington.edu (Derek Peschel) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: 30 Dec 1999 04:16:50 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 13 Message-ID: <84embi$upe$1@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <84egi1$r9m@ttacs7.ttu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: saul7.u.washington.edu X-Trace: nntp1.u.washington.edu 946527410 31534 (None) 140.142.17.35 X-Complaints-To: help@cac.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-User: dpeschel Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!newshunter!cosy.sbg.ac.at!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!enews.sgi.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news.u.washington.edu!dpeschel In article <84egi1$r9m@ttacs7.ttu.edu>, Jake Kesinger wrote: >You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... > >...you read a book on fungi and come across descriptions of ascomycetes >and their corresponding ``asci'' and think ``hey, they either need to >add an "i" or change that "c" to an "n".'' "asni"? As in the Amalgamated Swedish Norm Institute, the world-famous standards body? -- Derek