I've got a lot of students from China, and the class lists that I get seem to have no logic at all behind how they sort out personal name and family name. Like, a kid with the personal name Jingmei and the family name Chen could be listed in different university computer systems as "Chen, Jingmei" or "Jingmei, Chen" or (I had one of these last semester that always screwed up the alphabetizing) "Meichen, Jing." Or sometimes "Jingmeichen" or "Meichenjing" or something else entirely. I get student lists from a few different university offices, and frequently have to check one list against a different one to make sure the same students are on both lists, and there will usually be several names that are written differently on the different lists.
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Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My sister works there! What broke you?
Uncanny Valley! Or, rather, Uncanny Canal!
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names: [link]
OMG, the comments on that thing.
Thanks, Scola. Marked and printed out and likely to be used several times.
Uncanny Valley! Or, rather, Uncanny Canal!
Heh. Did you hear any of the gondeliers singing? It echoes very strangely of off the walls.
Did you look at the rare book store? When I was there in April, I was drooling over the window display of the first edition of Helen Keller's My Life autographed by her. I wanted that soooo much, but didn't have a spare $12,000 on me at the time.
OMG, the comments on that thing.
A universal response to blog posts.
I *love* pony play. LOVE.
Did I ever send you a link or have you seen Unmata's ode to pony play?
I don't think so. It doesn't sound familiar.
A universal response to blog posts.
Yeah, I'm not sure what came over me. I'm usually so good about not reading them!
If you have not already, call your Congresscritter and ask for a "No" vote on the deal. Almost no chance of it not passing, but if it could be stopped (and Aimee gets a camel while we are at it) then Obama would face the choice of letting his banker buddies suffer along with the rest of us, or using some those options he hates so much cause they are not dignified: 14th amendment, platinum coins, treasury forgiving U.S. debt to it and so on. All but the first are also mild stimulus which in major recession with significant deflationary risk is a feature, not a bug.