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Karen said:
After reviewing my diploma, I am intensely curious to know just how they wrote "Computer Science" in Latin on your diploma.
It's written "Scientia Combinatoria", which doesn't seem right - the French and Italian translations look like the English word "informatics", and the Spanish one actually has "computation" in it. I got curious and turned to the oracle of all knowledge, Wikipedia, which happens to have a Latin edition. The entry on Computer Science is titled Informatica, and "combinatoria" seems to be used to refer to combinations from probability, so I guess that settles that.
The real news in all of this is that there is a Wikipedia written entirely in Latin. I browsed over to the front page and the featured article of the month is Pong cervisiale. Wow.
Posted Friday afternoon, June 1st, 2007Tonight the major event on campus is a talk entitled "I Love the Female Orgasm," which according to the program description "combines sex education and women's empowerment with a hearty dose of laughter."
Probably unaware of the aforementioned program, the Bowdoin Computer Science department faculty and students (of which I am one) chose the same date and time to screen "Return of the Jedi."
I think the situation is hilarious.
Posted Monday evening, September 18th, 2006I was working on logging today (more on that later - short version, syslog-ng is really cool as far as logging programs go) and saw a DHCP request for a computer that called itself "laptopotomus". Like "hippopotamus", but laptop... yeah, anyway, I thought that was great.
Posted at teatime on Monday, November 28th, 2005