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Thesaurus notes on Geek.

boredkitteh — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:39:26 +0000

Straight from the Thesaurus.com entry for “geek”:

Notes: a geek is any smart person with an obsessive interest, a nerd is the same but also lacks social grace, and a dweeb is a mega-nerd.

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The confused affect effected by the effective (or ineffective) use of affect and effect.

boredkitteh — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:45:35 +0000

Or, The elusive *ffect fu.

That is in fact written correctly.

So, how many of you have issues with this. I have a friend who is easily a genius (literally, as per IQ), and he had it wrong. I had it down once. The professor for an english class I took at university made it a point to teach it. If I remember correctly, we had random quizzes on it. I don’t even remember how he taught it to us, but I still had it figured out. That is until the genius told me I had it wrong. My first instinct is to default to his knowledge, and overall, this is the ideal choice. In fact, I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve been right about something he was wrong about. Lucky for me, I decided to look it up.

The Ubuntu Detroit-Chicago / ARS 2006 Summer Sessions: Code, collaborate, learn.

boredkitteh — Wed, 17 May 2006 20:59:51 +0000

Hey everyone!

The Summer Sessions. The dates are as follows:

Session I: 19-21 May 2006.
Session II: 16-18 June 2006.
Session III: 14-16 July 2006.
Session IV: 11-13 August 2006.

I apologise for this post being a bit late on the uptake for the first session, but most of you who could make it are already aware of the plans.