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University Website

Fri, 2010-07-30 05:00
People go to the website because they can't wait for the next alumni magazine, right? What do you mean, you want a campus map? One of our students made one as a CS class project back in '01!  You can click to zoom and everything!

Frogger

Wed, 2010-07-28 05:00
I understand you and your team worked hard on this, but when we said to make it more realistic, we meant the graphics.

Period Speech

Mon, 2010-07-26 05:00
The same people who spend their weekends at the Blogger Reenactment Festivals will whine about the anachronisms in historical movies, but no one else will care.

All the Girls

Fri, 2010-07-23 05:00
You know that I'll never leave you. Not as long as she's with someone.

War

Wed, 2010-07-21 05:00
They offered to make me a green beret, but I liked my regular one. Although it gets kind of squashed under my helmet.

1996

Mon, 2010-07-19 05:00
College Board issues aside, I have fond memories of TI-BASIC, writing in it a 3D graphing engine and a stock market analyzer. With enough patience, I could make anything ... but friends. (Although with my chatterbot experiments, I certainly tried.)

Temper

Fri, 2010-07-16 05:00
Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image ... that's exactly what you find there, too. He's exactly what he appears to be.

Green Flash

Wed, 2010-07-14 05:00
The exact cause of the phenomenon is unknown, but it's thought to be linked to atmospheric refraction and you getting a really cool car.

Dilution

Mon, 2010-07-12 05:00
 I have two small corrections for your July issue.  One, it's spelled "echinacea", and two, homeopathic medicines are no better than placebos and your entire magazine is a sham.

One Two

Fri, 2010-07-09 05:00
Cue letters from anthropology majors complaining that this view of numerolinguistic development perpetuates a widespread myth. They get to write letters like that because when you're not getting a real science degree you have a lot of free time. Zing!

Workaround

Wed, 2010-07-07 05:00
, with a 'Documents' directory tree on each one. Each new file appeared to be saved to a partition at random. I knew enough not to ask.

Analogies

Mon, 2010-07-05 05:00
I just call all of them 'synecdoche'.

DFS

Fri, 2010-07-02 05:00
A breadth-first search makes a lot of sense for dating in general, actually; it suggests dating a bunch of people casually before getting serious, rather than having a series of five-year relationships one after the other.

Moria

Wed, 2010-06-30 05:00
Someone should really bring them a ladder and remind them to build the Endless Stair *first* next time.

3x9

Mon, 2010-06-28 05:00
 when you know the answer but not the correct derivation, derive blindly forward from the givens and backward from the answer, and join the chains once the equations start looking similar. Sometimes the graders don't notice the seam.

Raptor Fences

Fri, 2010-06-25 05:00
If at least one person has a nightmare about being swarmed by hundreds of mouse-sized dromaeosaurids, my work will have been done.

Toot

Wed, 2010-06-23 05:00
This is also one of only five identified situations in which a vuvuzela is actually appropriate.

Public Opinion

Mon, 2010-06-21 05:00
News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.

Interdisciplinary

Fri, 2010-06-18 05:00
Replace the pendulums with history students and you'll qualify for a grant!

Dependencies

Wed, 2010-06-16 05:00
The prereqs for CPSC 357, the class on package management, are CPCS 432, CPSC 357, and glibc2.5 or later.