fun little exercise
- (cforde)
- (32)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 02:26:40 PM EST
23 so far. I'm usually terrible at these types of things...
- (Another Scott)
- Jan. 22, 2006, 08:00:23 AM EST
Except for the typos...
- (admin)
- (16)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 05:34:15 PM EST
17 without trying *too* much
- (drewk)
- (13)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 04:41:00 PM EST
Not really.
- (admin)
- (12)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 04:47:40 PM EST
Noticed that
- (drewk)
- (11)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 04:51:27 PM EST
aye - didn't get those either
-NT
- (Steve Lowe)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 05:06:26 PM EST
Answers?
- (admin)
- (9)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 05:31:49 PM EST
On #32?
- (drewk)
- (8)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 05:35:08 PM EST
No, #24.
-NT
- (admin)
- (7)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 05:37:30 PM EST
The apostrophe?
-NT
- (drewk)
- (6)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 05:44:06 PM EST
Ar.
-NT
- (admin)
- (5)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 05:46:08 PM EST
Pedant ... and this is *me* saying that
- (drewk)
- (4)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 05:53:37 PM EST
Before, according to Merriam-Webster
-NT
- (admin)
- (3)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 05:55:36 PM EST
How do you do a phrase search?
- (drewk)
- (2)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 06:06:13 PM EST
Just typed it in.
- (admin)
- (1)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 06:23:32 PM EST
Ahh, M-W doesn't find it without the apostrophe
- (drewk)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 06:37:09 PM EST
Brainiac++!
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- Jan. 22, 2006, 08:03:32 AM EST
Some of them were sheer guesses.
- (admin)
- Jan. 22, 2006, 08:55:25 AM EST
Ended up with 26
-NT
- (Steve Lowe)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 05:05:59 PM EST
28! woot!
-NT
- (imqwerky)
- (6)
- Jan. 21, 2006, 07:17:36 PM EST
Brainiac! :-D
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- (5)
- Jan. 22, 2006, 08:02:11 AM EST
Pretty sad! If only "Trivia" were a profession
- (imqwerky)
- (4)
- Jan. 22, 2006, 01:51:50 PM EST
Maybe there'll be a US version of "The Enemy Within"
- (Another Scott)
- (3)
- Jan. 22, 2006, 02:25:35 PM EST
I eagerly await my chance at fame :-)
-NT
- (imqwerky)
- (2)
- Jan. 22, 2006, 10:36:42 PM EST
Try out for "Jeopardy!"
-NT
- (jb4)
- (1)
- Jan. 25, 2006, 04:23:58 PM EST
I should.
- (imqwerky)
- Jan. 25, 2006, 08:02:07 PM EST
It just times out... :-( They're probably afraid of me. :-)
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- (5)
- Jan. 22, 2006, 04:44:36 PM EST
Still works here. FWIW.
- (Another Scott)
- (4)
- Jan. 22, 2006, 05:37:51 PM EST
Answers?!? Feh & Bah! How could I honestly beat y'all then?
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- (3)
- Jan. 23, 2006, 02:34:49 AM EST
With a stick? A lead pipe? A lemur with rigor mortis? :-)
-NT
- (imqwerky)
- (2)
- Jan. 24, 2006, 09:54:21 PM EST
Forget the rigor
- (drewk)
- (1)
- Jan. 24, 2006, 10:49:48 PM EST
Yup;that's how I used to kill cute little baby bunny rabbits
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- Jan. 25, 2006, 02:44:36 AM EST
You're typing on a device that stores trillions of pieces of data and makes billions of computations per second with the ability to grab data on almost anything from around the world in milliseconds, using electricity transmitted from hundreds of kilometers through wires on towers dozens of meters tall connected to megastructures that do things like burn coal as fast as entire trains can pull into the yard, or spin in the wind with blades the size of jumbo jets, or the like, which were delivered to their location by vehicles with computer-timed engines burning a fuel that was pumped up halfway around the world from up to half a dozen kilometers underground and locked into complex strata (through wells drilled by diamond-lined bores that can be remote-control steered as they go), shipped around the world in tankers with volumes the size of large city blocks and the height of apartment complexes, run through complex chemical processes in unimaginable quantities, distributed nationwide and sold to you at a corner store for $1.80 a gallon, which you then pay for with a little piece of microchipped plastic, if not a smartphone, which does all of the aforementioned computer stuff but in a box the size of your hand that tolerates getting beaten up in your pocket all day.
But technology never seems to advance...
