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3d mandelbrot
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5 ¾ hours ago
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"sorta related: I just found out that the spanish slang for dictionary (in mexico ) is 'tumbaburros' , suggesting the book is large enough to knock a donkey over...." [
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3 days ago
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"The alternative term that I think fits very well is STARRED (with a star?), like gmail. It's safely ambiguous, and no baggage of the favourites." [
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12 days ago
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"I'm Indian, and while I find it mildly amusing, I don't find it offensive. Worn by anyone. But I guess it's a whole different ball game there in the US...." [
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2 weeks ago
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"This is the first time that traumatic insemination has been shown to occur in spiders. I attended a talk given by this guy at the last international arachnology conference, and it caused quite a stir...." [
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Last month
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"I recommend the spider plates in the Biolgia Centrali Americana as well. (for example: this page)" [
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High Jump Innovator
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"I use Scrivener for writing papers. You can import pdfs as well as clippings from webpages. You can use endnote's temporary citations, and then when exported to Word or something, they can then be converted to proper citations and build a..." [
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2 months ago
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"One of the authors of the linked paper was my PhD thesis supervisor. Anyway, I study orb-webs and I find that there is quite a bit of variation, but it depends on what you measure. In nature, the web size for example is affected by the size of the..." [
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2 months ago
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the foreign exchange student
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3 months ago
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"Insert 'Large ship slow turn' phrase here.
I would insert it myself, if I could just remember how it went" [
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3 months ago
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"> Why aren't there lists like
Heh. Reminded me of a passage from Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler:
"In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual..." [
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3 months ago
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"> And last weekend, I recall clueless CNN desk jockeys...
I was just thinking that Iran coverage is going to drop off dramatically from CNN." [
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4 months ago
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"Ever since I moved to Mexico 8 months ago, the crazy kid who lives upstairs seemed to have recently discovered MJ and has been playing MJ incessantly at real loud volumes. At first it was annoying, and then distracting, and now I'm just resigned to..." [
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4 months ago
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"I'm excited by this, because I hope that there will be renewed interest in trains in Mexico. Far fetched, I know. But here the buses compete with the planes, so I'm not too hopeful...." [
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4 months ago
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"The holy man's middle name is And?
It's a pun: 've' in hebrew is 'and'. The guy's name is David VeMoshe" [
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5 months ago
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"> Bing gave me a link to some spam-trap site. The Mexican embassy website is nowhere on the page.
Heh. that's weird. I tried that same search (from Mexico) and it gave me the right link as the top result. See there's your problem, Vacapinta,..." [
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5 months ago
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"I almost broke up with my mexican girl friend (now fiancee) over this issue. I'm Indian and there were similar differences. What I feel is essential is that I needed to feel that my gf would have my back when it came to cultural things things that I..." [
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7 months ago
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"Well just in case the bride is Indian, this is absolutely normal. In fact, in India you can buy special envelopes for the express purpose of gifting money at weddings...." [
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7 months ago
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"Boyle's realism just skims the surface; issues of poverty, child exploitation, images of brutality and violence are forgotten as quickly as they play out on the screen. The only question that remains is: will the boy get the girl, and how?..." [
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9 months ago
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"> Plus, being a Buddhist is pretty much incompatible with the other faiths Obama mentioned
Buddhism is just an offshoot of Hinduism, anyway :)" [
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9 months ago
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"bout how to cite a metafilter post and or comment.
and a complimentary Metafilter Endnote style" [
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9 months ago
