Notes on life
Cool: Building a telescope out of lenses during physics lab and looking at the library from LeConte.
Cute: The two people sleeping against each other in my physics lecture today.
Annoying: My CS notes use a symbol that looks like '|' to mean nand.
Odd: The guy in CS who wrote "I still think you're pretty" to me on his notebook.
Really annoying: I've forgotten perl.
Amusing: The imminent CZ/Ridge hot tub war.
Comments
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
Time for a Perl refresher class.
PS. I would say I still thought you were pretty but you don't like flattery, right? ;-)
Posted by: Ian Hickson | September 18, 2002 01:18 AM
Hmm... Surely saying "I still think you're pretty" suggests that at some point in the future "you" may not be pretty, or that the person has actually been considering the fact which suggests there's some debate. I'd find it quite insulting myself...
Of course in general 98% of everything in a CS lecture is "odd".
Posted by: Jim Ley | September 19, 2002 03:06 AM
No, "I still think X" can mean that an event occured which could have changed the way that the person thought about X, but it didn't. For example, if I said "I am still an atheist" after having been extremely lucky, it would indicate that I did not consider the luck I had had to have changed my opinion on the existence of a deity.
Thus "I still think you are pretty" is a compliment; depending on the event which could have changed the opinion, it could even be a very strong compliment.
Posted by: Ian Hickson | September 19, 2002 03:36 AM
To clarify the "still": it was part of another conversation and was inserted after I said something about my handwriting being terrible. So there was context to the comment, but not much.
And Ian, you're a friend. It's different.
Posted by: Nadia | September 19, 2002 11:32 AM