Adventures in Academia

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Yesterday, at work, I was waiting for my computer to install several software packages to install.

While waiting, I was reading several papers, one of which was Intercepting and Instrumenting COM Applications, which was reasonably easy to read, and very useful (bonus!).

The paper had, in my opinion, some of the funniest writing ever seen in an [...]

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Internet Grammar

Monday, September 19th, 2005

there’s something especially crude about using “lol” in a conversation about loving grammar -Tom

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NPR meets Teh Intarweb

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

NPR Guest (responding to an e-mail to the show): “Mr. Zoom Junkie had an unfortunate experience.”

I can only imagine what would happen if they didn’t screen the names of e-mails read on-air.

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Pat has limits

Friday, March 11th, 2005

Pat: “This is so greasy, I don’t want to put it in my pants.”

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Futurama mafia

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

I love Futurama:

Robot: Donbot, I beg you. I can’t make this week’s loan payment. Look into your hard drive and open your mercy file! Donbot: File not found!

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