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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
Wednesday January 23, 2002
06:58 AM
Childhood words
So my friend Rael wants to bring back the word rad. It reminds me of riding around on a BMX thinking everything was "rad".
What childhood word would you bring back?
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words (Score:1)
"no duh!"
several (Score:1)
Re:several (Score:1)
Re:several (Score:2)
We you even alive in the 70s? :D
Re: Alive in the 70s (Score:1)
We you even alive in the 70s? :D
Have you seen this picture [taskboy.com]?
Re: Alive in the 70s (Score:2)
The entire fashion challenged decade, yes :) Somewhere I think I still have my mood rings, pet rock and lava lamp. I even have photographic evidence which I could show you but then I would have to dispose of you somehow :)
And yes, that pic is cute :)
Re:several (Score:2)
What about Shazam! and Dentente or chill out :)
I was always partial to 'dink' (Score:1)
Waiting on the Road to Eventually, I lost my Place On Line
Re:I was always partial to 'dink' (Score:2)
douchebag was, as I recall, the most common and popular razz/insult of the mid to late 70s. I'll have to check DARE later.
Re:I was always partial to 'dink' (Score:1)
"Perl users are the Greatful Dead fans of computer science." --slashdot comment
Ah, Youth... (Score:1)
The featureless corporate landscape might be a smidge more tolerable if you could occasionally point at someone who's just made a jackass of themselves and say...
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-ubu