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DI*T is a 4-character expression

30 May 2008, 5:30 am
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Weight Watchers’ slogan, on this flyer posted on all the office fridges, is “DI*T is a four-letter word.”
But we’re an engineering shop, you see, so I read this as “the derivative of i multiplied by t.”
“t” is obviously time. So what is “i”? I ask.
The mot juste response from a co-worker arrives with alacrity:
“Intake”

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memo to prospective employers

8 July 2006, 12:42 pm
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Hello, whoever you are.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about one’s prospective future employers should always be considered as members of the audience for whatever one writes on the Internets. At the moment, you have to be pretty diligent to find your way here by searching on my surname, but the Internets are nothing […]

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meta meta meta

1 December 1999, 10:01 am
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