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I was just trying to look up the latin word for “hanging” as in suspended, hanging in the balance, etc. and I discovered this word:
propexus -a -um [combed forwards , hanging down]
hahahaha!!! OK, yeah, no one is laughing but me. Yet.
Has anyone seen ads for Propecia? AKA finasteride, a male pattern hair [...]

a fragment of a longer unpublished report
Programming languages are all predicated on the notion creating an expressive form for humans to describe complex processes both to computers and to one another. Certainly it is possible to solve any problem in any Turing-complete language with sufficient access to required resources. One need only look [...]

I hate Perl more than Cartman hates Kyle.
Can Alkan
Perl is the only language where you can bang your head on the keyboard and it compiles.
Anonymous
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
A Perl script is ‘correct’ if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
Programming in [...]

a friend asked in his blog:
what part of speech are you? are you a noun? are you a verb? are you a direct object?
I repliedyou is a pronoun
i am an exclamation!
you are a dufus

vexillology ◆ vex·il·lol·o·gy ◆ vĕk’sə-lŏl′ə-jē
NOUN:
The study of flags.
OTHER FORMS:
vex·illo·logi·cal —ADJECTIVE
vexil·lolo·gist —NOUN
more info here

Word of the day. Yes, it’s real
SYLLABICATION: ha·pax le·go·me·non
NOUN:
Inflected forms: pl. ha·pax le·go·me·na (-n)
A word or form that occurs only once in the recorded corpus of a given language.
ETYMOLOGY:
Greek : hapax, once + legomenon, neuter sing. passive participle of legein, to count, say.

I lived in Tampere, Finland from 2/99-8/01
I can fool Finns into thinking I am a Finnish native for 5 or 10 minutes at a time, as long as they are drunk and we are in a loud bar and I stick mostly to their non-glossed utterances (”mmm,” “yö,” “nii”) or simple phrases (”selva,” “mitä kuulu?” [...]

yesterday, after my massage appointments, I went to best I and bought myself a you ask the microphone for Macintosh.
Thus, I’m dictating this century solely by Boris. No, you fought immediate, it’s not a century but an entry and it’s not Boris its Bullock’s no its voice. That’s better.
Actually, also looks a little funny, it’s [...]