Metaphors

[cronodeus]

I should probably go to sleep, but I've been planning a post for a while and if I don't write at least some of it now it'll never happen

Comments

[itealaich]

"My english teachers cackling as we speak"?

Your English teachers ARE crying because of that sentence. :P

[cronodeus]

"This sentence no verb!"

That's what I get for deleting too quickly, I suppose. ;-).

Your math teacher

[friedfly]

if a=b
and b=c
then a=c
Accordingly, Elton John is not gay, he's actually just Edna St. Vincent Milay.

Re: Your math teacher

[cronodeus]

Better rewrite:

If c=b, and b=a,
Then c is definitely a,
And thus it's let on,
Our man Elton John
Is merely just Edna St. Vincent Millay.
(And we're so so certain he's gay?)

Read this

[friedfly]

Also, if you haven't already, read this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html

Re: Read this

[cronodeus]

Heh. Yes. Exactly this. We talked about this a good bit in my CogSci class. It happens in code, sure, but that's just a specific case of the general case. Leaky Abstractions happen all over the damn place. I'm amazed it hasn't bitten us in the ass more often.