http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5078 fuckin octopodes kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) Look down, look down... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:36:09 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5078 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5076 Welp. Not eating lunch now. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Look down, look down... Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:19:04 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5076 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5075 Worst. Burrito. Ever. conrad@idkfa.com (conrad) Look down, look down... Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:56:48 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5075 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5074 It's true. Negativity does tend to have better memory permanency. You don't remember all the times you had good burritos, you remember when you found a beak in your burrito. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Look down, look down... Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:09:26 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5074 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5073 I auto translated it in my head into "the woman who drives the pretty Red Corolla who always takes up two parking spaces and hogs the refrigerator space." In short: the only way I remember anecdotes about people at work is if they're bad/annoying/painful. I will never default to good attributes for coworkers. conrad@idkfa.com (conrad) Look down, look down... Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:02:37 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5073 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5071 I wrote that and thought the same thing. Then I remembered that I found this, and that I needed to check my adjective ordering (the ordering seemed fine, but I wanted to read it more closely regardless). Then somebody walked into my cube, and the thought was lost. In the programming world, adjective ambiguity is syntactically impossible (or at least yields incorrect results). If we had some of the same punctuation operators as programming, and natural language followed the "fluent" programming style (where all operators return their original calling objects, unless the function/property refers to another child object) we could have something like: Lady.Pretty().Corolla.Red() ...but that sort of violates word order. And probably causes lots of problems elsewhere. For the time being, my love for Corollas can remain ambiguous. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Look down, look down... Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:06:16 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5071 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5070 Josh, I'm confused by your use of modifiers. Is the Red Corolla pretty or is the lady who owns the red corolla pretty? Also "I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I don't know." - Groucho Marx (that's one of my favorite linguistic jokes about the imprecise nature of the English language.) If it isn't obvious, I'm mostly giving you a hard time. lizinthelibrary@idkfa.com (lizinthelibrary) Look down, look down... Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:46:17 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5070 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5069 Break room. Pretty Red Corolla Lady walks in. Josh: (cleaning coffee cup with 180F water dispenser) [TV: News coverage on Boston, a crowd singing "America, America, God shed His grace on thee..."] Corolla Lady: (standing by patiently) Josh: "Ah, here you go..." (switches to normal sink) [TV: "And crown thy good with brotherhood..."] Corolla Lady: (begins filling water pitcher) Josh: (finishing cleaning cup) "Sad stuff, eh?" Corolla Lady: "Yeah." [TV: "From sea to shining sea!"] Josh: (fills up coffee cup) "..." Corolla Lady: (finishes filling water pitcher, walks out of room) I was the awkward break room transgressor this time around. The circle is complete. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Look down, look down... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:41:35 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5069&msg_id=5069