mathNEWS Issue 90.3: Friday, October 28, 2002

Have You Got a Name for It?

So, it was Thanksgiving. I had a traditional Turkey dinner at Catherine's house. It was very nice, save for the fact that Catherine and I really spent Saturday and Sunday cooking. So, since it was Thanksgiving, let me present ...

Things to be thankful for

(in no particular order)

Flying Monkeys
Refrigerators
Catherine
Elephants
mathNEWS
Cats
vi improved editor
Puppies
Internet
Kittens
Pretzels
Guitars
PlayStation2
A SoftEng job

So while at dinner, Albert suggested we argue. Because apparently you have to argue during Thanksgiving dinner. So, without further ado ...

Things to argue about during Thanksgiving Dinner

(in no particular order)

Flying Monkeys
Refrigerators
Mac or a PC
Linux or Windows
vi vs emacs
Lino's Mom or Ian's Mom
Current Office Manager vs Previous Office Managers — WAIT! The Current One is Best Office Manager Ever.
Whether you can break out of a while loop
MP3 vs. Ogg Vorbis
Geeks vs. Nerds
192 bit rate vs. variable bit rate
Britney vs. Christina
Backstreet Boys vs. N'Sync
Beatles vs. Elvis
Age of consent
The meaning of life
Which Math proof is most trivial
Which CS prof is sexier
Whether one can do a book report on a textbook
The weather
The proper spelling of 'whether' and 'weather'
What to argue about
The meaning of the phrase 'argue about'
What's worse: Quest or Access or Blackboard
Hot or Not
Are those real or not
Is she 18 or not?
Is she 15 or not?
Laurier: High School or University?
High School: Laurier or full of jailbait?
EA Sports vs Sega Sports
Ring? [Sana'a: Read This]
Mold vs. Mildew
Weather you can goto into a while loop
What the hell is that smell in the Comfy?
Engineers: Glorified Plumbers?
Why does Stat 231 suck so much?
Mathematician or Mathemagician?

I just realized that there's very little content to this column. That's alright. Who needs content anyway?

Anton "zer0man"



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