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Re: The Pedant Revolt

nordle — Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:30 pm

Author: nordle

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:30 pm

Rhakios wrote:

nordle wrote:

1. They messed around with Lego (or equivilent) when younger
2. Interested in fire, burning things when younger.
3. Symptoms of OCD (how many of have to open a packet of crisps a certain way up, must double check you've closed windows before leaving house when you've already checked, have to eat jaffa cakes, marathon bars etc in a certain order ie take the top layer off, then the middle etc Having to align stacks or groups of items such as magazines, papers etc so they are symetrical)

Scary how many poeple that covers where I work

Well, okay for one and two, but then most of my friends at that age had similar interests. As for three, obsessive? me?
By the way, that should be "equivalent" and "symmetrical", above.

Does it show that I recently upgraded Firefox to 1.0.7 and have not yet got round to re-installing the spellbound spellchecker

Re: The Pedant Revolt

Rhakios — Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:16 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:16 pm

nordle wrote:

Well, okay for one and two, but then most of my friends at that age had similar interests. As for three, obsessive? me?
By the way, that should be "equivalent" and "symmetrical", above.

Re: The Pedant Revolt

nelz — Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:46 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:46 am

Hudzilla wrote:

- full stops should go inside quotation marks

Only if they are part of the quotation or you are American

Re: The Pedant Revolt

M0PHP — Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:32 am

Author: M0PHP

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:32 am

nordle wrote:

But, there are certain traits which tend to follow geeks/computer literate people around, such as:
1. They messed around with Lego (or equivilent) when younger
2. Interested in fire, burning things when younger.
3. Symptoms of OCD (how many of have to open a packet of crisps a certain way up, must double check you've closed windows before leaving house when you've already checked, have to eat jaffa cakes, marathon bars etc in a certain order ie take the top layer off, then the middle etc Having to align stacks or groups of items such as magazines, papers etc so they are symetrical)

Scary how many poeple that covers where I work

So true! I can say yes to 1, 2 and most of 3

Re: The Pedant Revolt

nordle — Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:42 am

Author: nordle

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:42 am

evilnick wrote:

Rebecca is going to rip, Hudzilla, limb from limb...

Can we set up a webcam, you could do it pay per view, at least it would pay for the xmas party drinks

Re: The Pedant Revolt

evilnick — Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:17 am

Author: evilnick

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:17 am

Rebecca is going to rip, Hudzilla, limb from limb...

Re: The Pedant Revolt

jjmac — Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:12 am

Author: jjmac

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:12 am

Code:

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1. \/

/ /
2. \/ \/

3. noop -=-

Furthermore:

- "before" starts the sentence, so capitalise it
--=-- ( very very pedantic)

- when addressing nordle, you should place a comma before his name
--=-- ( there's a fundamental error there somewhere )

- full stops should go inside quotation marks
--=-- hmmm, ok then, one/two

Just had a strange cumpulsion to post this ....

jm

Re: The Pedant Revolt

nordle — Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:51 am

Author: nordle

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:51 am

I had to laugh at evilnick's post, why when a computer geek takes offence to a post do they respond by pointing out the spelling and punctuation issues, wtf is that all about.
The link I quoted was dissorder.
And for Ed of LXF to point out spelling / grammer etc errors, pots, black kettles, glass house's, all that gear.

Good to see Hudzilla blockin for me though Much appreciated!

If Rebecca wants to rip my limbs off, I think that's a bit harsh, plus I've grown quite attached to my limbs, I like them where they are, so would apologise prefusely for any offence caused if it meant I could keep most of my limbs in roughly the same place's as usual.

But, there are certain traits which tend to follow geeks/computer literate people around, such as:
1. They messed around with Lego (or equivilent) when younger
2. Interested in fire, burning things when younger.
3. Symptoms of OCD (how many of have to open a packet of crisps a certain way up, must double check you've closed windows before leaving house when you've already checked, have to eat jaffa cakes, marathon bars etc in a certain order ie take the top layer off, then the middle etc Having to align stacks or groups of items such as magazines, papers etc so they are symetrical)

Scary how many poeple that covers where I work

Re: The Pedant Revolt

Flea — Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:47 am

Author: Flea

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:47 am

evilnick wrote:

before Rebecca tears you limb from limb nordle, that should be "you're a freak".
And there is only one 's' in disorder...

Hudzilla wrote:

Furthermore:
- "before" starts the sentence, so capitalise it
- when addressing nordle, you should place a comma before his name
- full stops should go inside quotation marks
- Rebecca is too weak to tear an Airfix plane limb from limb, never mind a strapping Linux geek such as nordle!

Baa!

Heh, I was going to make a wise crack about how people can be so pedantic and then the penny dropped and I felt really s..l..o..w

Re: The Pedant Revolt

Hudzilla — Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:09 am

Author: Hudzilla

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:09 am

Furthermore:
- "before" starts the sentence, so capitalise it
- when addressing nordle, you should place a comma before his name
- full stops should go inside quotation marks
- Rebecca is too weak to tear an Airfix plane limb from limb, never mind a strapping Linux geek such as nordle!

Baa!

Re: The Pedant Revolt

evilnick — Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:46 pm

Author: evilnick

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:46 pm

before Rebecca tears you limb from limb nordle, that should be "you're a freak".
And there is only one 's' in disorder...

Re: The Pedant Revolt

Nigel — Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:24 pm

Author: Nigel

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:24 pm

nordle wrote:

Rebecca, I'm going to put this as nicely and thoughtfully as I can, with as much caring and compassion as i can muster.....Rebecca, your a freak.

Sounds more like a programmer to me... oh, wait - that's the same thing

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Nigel.
(practicing programming for over 25 years - one day I hope to be good at it!)

Re: The Pedant Revolt

nordle — Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:36 pm

Author: nordle

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:36 pm

Rebecca, I'm going to put this as nicely and thoughtfully as I can, with as much caring and compassion as i can muster.....Rebecca, your a freak.

You are a text book example of someone suffering Obssesive Compulsive Dissorder

http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Obsessive_Compulsive_Dissorder

Quote:

OCD is manifested in a variety of forms, but is most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive drive to perform a particular task or set of tasks

You took a project management book with you on holiday, who in their right mind would need to form a Business Case and produce a PID as to whether they should stop for lunch or not en route to Andalucia

Just kidding

One thing that did bounce around my noggin was, maybe the reason the "read emails", "tidy sock draw" etc gets done first and ticked first is because they are easy, they are predictable, they are known quantities, you have a far lower chance of failure with those so can quickly put lines through things in the list. Doing something creative like "come up with xyz for section abc" means exactly that, come up with something random, yet associated, its an unknown, being creative is harder than repeating what you know and has a much higher chance of failure than "tidy sock draw", and requires more effort just to get a line crossed off the list.
Also, you add lines in for thing's you've alread done, hence again pointing to a need to cross of the line, but its the crossing off of the line which seems to be of most importance, not the gravity/scope of the task.
So, to fit in with your change of strategy, how about changing the length of the line and thickness of pen for the items which are more important, difficult, lower chance of success etc. That way, you still get to cross things off, but the reward of a few big fat massive lines outweighs the little ones......oh wait, maybe I meant that speach for Kate Moss

Thus endith the pointless patronising drivel,

Re: The Pedant Revolt

Rhakios — Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:47 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:47 pm

Is it just me? I still can't see the stingray, there 544KB of something there, but it's invisible. Is it a phantom ray?

Re: The Pedant Revolt

Nigel — Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:26 pm

Author: Nigel

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:26 pm

Glad to hear it !
Hope you got your sock drawer sorted...