I believe the pronunciation of SCSI depends on where you're from and how you view the technology. I think the fact that "scuzzy" seems to have won out says something about it, but maybe I've spent too long dealing with recalcitrant scanners, flaky tape drives, and poorly designed host adapters.
And I agree with Keith Kisser in #61, wireless is definitely the way to go, for the obvious logistical reasons if nothing else.
And I'm still waiting for implanted cell phones. They'll be the first step.
I have occasionally been bemused that were my wife to say "my girlfriend" people would assume it meant a non-sexual relationship, but if I were to do so, they would assume the opposite. On the other hand, if either of us were to say "our girlfriend", they would be very confused. But if either of us said "my boyfriend", . . .
When trying to teach my children English I frequently end up saying "I know it doesn't make sense. English is weird."
To me it just seems Wrong to refer to someone as "husband" or "wife" without having that actual relationship with them. On the other hand, I have a friend who refers to her husband and her boyfriend as "my boys", which confuses me because I refer to my kids that way. Gah. English is weird.
CHip: Back when I was a NRA member, lo those many years ago, owning, or even having fired a gun were not prerequisites for membership. I've never done either. But things may have changed in the intervening decades.
Serge: It's called the "Escher" Hilton because of it's unique architecture. Fortunately, once you've been to enough Lunacons, your brain becomes twisted enough that you can find your way around. . . Unless you drink too much, of course.
Impulsively hugging a friend goodbye, which did not go over well, which led to (some months later) a(n ex-)friend trying to break up my marriage (he failed) which led to way-too-complicated-to-describe-here which led to the best Thanksgiving I've ever had and I life I would not have believed possible two years ago.
Yes, I know it's a run on sentence. So is life.
I'm not going to even try to write any text, but the soundtrack for this thread can be found here.
#186: Pandemonium isn't in the Garage anymore. They moved to a better, cheaper space in Central Square. It's still worth going to, but it's a bit of a walk if you're already at Harvard Sq.
"Linux" covers a huge amount of ground these days. Looking around my office I see the kernel hackers (each with their own specialty), the Samba hacker, the clustering hackers, the desktop hackers (KDE, Gnome, and other), the OpenOffice hackers, the GIMP hackers, the SELinux hackers. . .
I will admit to being a guru only in my small areas of expertise. There are huge chunks of the system I hardly know anything about.
On the other hand, the best gurus all know who the other gurus are.
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