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From: Woody on 10 Jun 2010 17:23 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson> > > > > > > > > Yes, computer design will get you that way sometimes. She should > > > > probably remove the bracketed name part of her name then! > > > > > > Just so long as you're not designing hardware interfaces, getting male > > > and female connectors mixed up would be a problem! > > > > > > To be fair, I don't think she puts (Roger) in her name. > > > > I guessed not. I think she should fire Jim from doing her PR though. > > [stomps off into the corner, muttering] I heard that. And you can wipe that flat look of your face while your are at it! -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Mark on 10 Jun 2010 18:49 On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:42:51 +0100, Jim wrote (in article <1jjvvwu.1cl5iyspmlcf0N%jim(a)magrathea.plus.com>): > Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-06-10 14:32:32 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> said: >> >>>> There's an event at Bletchley Park on the 19th and 20th June - the >>>> Bletchley Park Vintage Computer Festival. There's going to be at least >>>> one ex-Acorn person there. >> >> Ooh, that's one for me. Thanks for mentioning it. > > Full details here: > <http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/calendar/event_detail.rhtm?cat=*&recID= > 594620> > > Jim > We performed the play "Breaking The Code" in Glasgow 2 weeks ago. The director/lead had wanted to put it on for 15 years - he's incredibly passionate about the subject. He just sent me this cartoon: <http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20100610.gif> Cheers ... Mark
From: Richard Tobin on 10 Jun 2010 19:26 In article <slrni124q6.s86.jim(a)wotan.magrathea.local>, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >Born Roger, than had a small-but-significant operation. Bit-twiddling? -- Richard
From: Jim on 11 Jun 2010 01:14 Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > In article <slrni124q6.s86.jim(a)wotan.magrathea.local>, > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > >Born Roger, than had a small-but-significant operation. > > Bit-twiddling? Parity alteration. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: jim on 11 Jun 2010 02:02
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >>> Sophie roger Wilson is quite an unusual name. I guess their parents > > > were >>> hedging their bets on that one >> >> No, she changed gender > > Gender is a grammatical term so that's meaningless, since English > words > don't have gender and people certainly cannot have gender. "Gender is the wide set of characteristics that are seen to distinguish between female and male members of a species, in most animals including humans as well as many plants." (from the Wikipedia article) Jim -- Sent from Jim's iPad |