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[Thad]

I'll give you a hint: one is science, and the other is engineering.

This is not propulsion systems development people.

The old joke goes that if your degree has "science" in the name it's not really science.

I've got a CS degree.  It's a CSE degree without as many EE courses.

Cornell has CS, and CIS? The addition of information to computers makes it a different science!

Now, CIS really IS a different thing.

At my school CS was in the engineering college and CIS was business.  Sometimes CS students would defect to CIS.  We tended to look down our noses at them.  I remember one guy -- older, probably mid-30's -- once ranting that he didn't care HOW long it took, he'd get a CS degree, not switch to CIS.

[JDigital]

That's how I saw it too. CIS or CIT was the inferior degree for people who got into Computer Science thinking it'd be easy because they knew Microsoft Office. Dropping down to CIT was seen as accepting a lesser degree because you couldn't handle the real thing.

At University of Ulster, Software Engineering and Computer Science were almost the same degree in terms of classes. The only difference is that some of the optional classes in CS were the only option in the SE degree.

[François]

I live in Saint-Hyacinthe, a city that calls itself an agricultural technopolis. By and large this is a legitimate claim. We're on the cutting edge of the business and science of feeding people, with several of our public and private institutions and enterprises having international reach and recognition. We're in the middle of Montérégie, a region that largely used to be under the Sea of Champlain and whose sedimentary soil is some of the most fertile in the world; appropriately, we're surrounded by mile after mile after mile after mile of bountiful fields and pastures.

Several months out of the year, regardless of which way the wind is blowing, everything smells like manure.

[Aintaer]

Aw, smashing the shit out of your own stack isn't that crushing... The first 1000 times.

Several months out of the year, regardless of which way the wind is blowing, everything smells like manure.

Wrong stack!

[Büge]

What Zed said. Being in a climate that's perfect for growing grapes and peaches means fresh fruit, an influx of migrant workers and the smell of fertilizer.

[Lady Duke]

People who take facebook seriously.

Ex: my friend didn't invite me to her wedding and I found out from facebook--long story short, turns out it's because I wouldn't find her husband-to-be literal YEARS ago.

[JDigital]

I can't understand that sentence

[François]

I wouldn't find her husband-to-be literal YEARS ago.

I'd be offended too if I was mistaken for a figure of speech.

What I assume was meant, is that years ago, LD wouldn't friend her friend's husband on facebook. Which really is an idiotic reason to snob someone for one's wedding. Daaaang.

[sei]

s/snob/snub/

[François]

...wow, we actually use "snob" for both purposes in French. Thanks for pointing out there's a separate term in English!

[Lady Duke]

Oh yeah, that's right.  Totally did not look at that sentence again.  It was about friend request bullshit.  Petty whore.

[Brentai]

This is the second week in a row that some chucklehead brought bagels instead of donuts.  I'm going to go buy a pack of Donettes from the vending machine in protest, after I finish this bagel.

[Büge]

Shmaltzy, partiotic rock. Specifically, John Mellencamp.

[François]

Turns out the oak kitchen cabinets in my new apartment are basically infused with nicotine, on account of the old fart who lived there before they had to ship him to a home on account of his blind ass dropping lit cigarettes everywhere. I cleaned them as thoroughly as I could, but there's still that old motel room odor. I pretty much hate all smokers now. You dumdums. What the hell.

On the plus side, it's more impetus to make tons of delicious smelling food so maybe they'll overwrite the odor over time. I wonder if stashing open boxes of sodium bicarbonate in there is gonna help.

[Brentai]

Actual Smokers swear by huge open canisters of coffee beans.  YMMV.

[Brentai]

The worst part about Apple zealots is that they'll hide their special brand of insanity and then try to lure you into tripping over it so they can go off on you.  Even Christian nuts have the basic common decency to wear their brainwashing on their sleeve so you can just not talk to them.  The only way to tell if someone's a Jobist is to think twice before trying to open a dialog with them about any sort of technology and think, "Wait, is this person ignoring all the extremely valid and numerous complaints about Apple's competitors and going right for the ones with the shakiest or no basis on reality?"

[Brentai]

I have an absurdly high hearing range for someone my age.  Something like 28kHz.  I'm usually proud of it, except for those times some fucker sets up an ultra-high voltage power supply down the hall and everybody around you is wondering why you keep looking angrily at nothing.

It's driving into my goddam brain.

[Classic]

I have similar problems, though I don't think I'm quite that high.

There is a watercooler whose cooling is the most obnoxious thing.

[Thad]

Yeah, when my girlfriend's family was staying with us I woke up her stepdad by brushing my teeth in the middle of the night.  I felt bad about that.

[Lottel]

I cannot stand it when I am obviously watching something and people just come up and demand my attention.
There are moving pictures and sound correlating to those pictures. And I am staring intently at the moving pictures. I am obviously wanting to continue doing so while they continue to move.
It's not that I watch things all the time. Other than my 3am-6am Netflix binge I only watch the occasional youtube video or something. But every time I sit down to watch something, they wait five minutes before interrupting.