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Saturday, July 19th, 2003
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2:40a - What are they implying here?
I get a lot of spam. Mail filters most of it into my junk folder but it hasn't yet realized that messages with subject lines like "why not work for yourself eczeqgh aw" need to go. Because of this, most of the junk messages that wind up in my inbox have subject lines ending in random letters, are sent from randomly faked AOL and Hotmail addresses, and are trying to sell Viagra.
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3:24a - Jokes inspired by a wordgame
Today work was made very fun by a wordgame. It's my usual one where I write a word, form the second word from the last three letters of the first word, form the third word from the last three letters of the second word, etc., any language, any grammatical form, proper nouns and transliterations OK. What was unusual is that there were three players. The game is much more fun that way; I had been getting bored with it. The new guy at the store, Dylan, who is really into languages and history, is great at it: he understands like 90% of the stuff that I write! Even more impressively (for him), I understand only about 90% of what he writes. Tyler also made some great contributions, especially with the wit. It really helped that we have good access to both the Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Latin dictionary behind the counter. Yes, cheating is allowed. The point is to learn more things, like that a Middle English spelling of the past participle of "to ask" is i-eascad, not to lose and have to start over. The three of us got through like four pages of receipt paper, sometimes writing only one word, sometimes five in a row, it was pretty informal. Corey called it "pretty geeky" and then unnecessarily apologized. Seriously, does the word "geeky" have meaning if this is not geeky?
The Jokes
ego, Egon, gonorrhea
me: Too many situations in life begin with ego and end with gonorrhea.
mantou (I explain that that is Mandarin for dumpling), (Tyler says, "you know what I have to say to that..." and writes) touché
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