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Bob_Scopatz
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Quote of the day:



"Actually they need a pedaflop," he said, referring to a system capable of performing a quadrillion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000 calculations a second.



-said of Lawrence Livermore Lab..

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Annie
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See, I was picturing a down-and-out Michael Jackson.
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[ROFL]
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Elizabeth
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I declare Annie the winner of the future Michael Jackson-based Pun Smackdown.
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Annie
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Sweet! I win without having to go through all the agony og participating!
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Elizabeth
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Do you mean D Agonee? Yes, his puns are painful.
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Dagonee
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Yuk yuk yuk.

That's not sarcastic laughter - it's my response to a typical Liz pun.

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Elizabeth
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Your puns are so nonfunny that when I laugh, I go: "hardly har har," Dagster.
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Dagonee
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snicker?

Maybe a sugar buzz will make you funny again.

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Yeah, I read that article, and was reminded yet again about how little reporters and editors care about science&technology. Petaflop.

[ November 18, 2004, 03:50 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

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