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Deadlines

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

– Douglas Adams 

Mirror


Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest mirror of them all?

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Lies, damned lies, and statistics

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

– Benjamin Disraeli Mark Twain

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It’s just semantics.

I don’t care if you’re stuck at 2.0 or pushing 3.0. It’s just semantics.

– Webster Mudge

Drill

This is not a drill.

Buffalos

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

is a grammatically valid sentence in the English language, used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs. It has been discussed in literature since 1972 when the sentence was used by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at… Buffalo.

RIP Unix Time

rip-unix-time

It’s the end of the world as we know it (exactly 30 years from now).
RIP Unix Time 13 Dec 1901 – 19 Jan 2038.

Pi Mnemonic


How I need a drink, alcoholic of course,
3 . 1 -4-- 1 --5--  ----9---- 2- --6---

after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!
--5-- -3- --5-- ---8---- ----9---- ---7--- ----9----

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לשון עם זר

די לשימוש במילים לועזיות – לכל מילה לועזית יש אקוויוולנטית בעברית