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[challenge entry] Since we're moving stuff into the high-tech computer age
...time for a very tenuous compo entry.

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(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:18, archived)
# .
text on a picture
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Scunner She’s a he, technically, but she’s scalding hot, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:19, archived)
# .
TOAP
(I helped save b3ta! slight yoinks!, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:22, archived)
# good god that's awful!
you should be ashamed!

*giggle*
(I helped save b3ta! slight yoinks!, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:20, archived)
# Sorry old bean, you've really rather lost me with that one.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:20, archived)
# Moi aussi.
Is it a Matrix reference?
(I helped save b3ta! Doctor When May your wife shat and chipper, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:21, archived)
# I dunno



(I helped save b3ta! Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:23, archived)
# filename . . .


(I helped save b3ta! Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:21, archived)
# .
www.latex-project.org/
(I helped save b3ta! slight yoinks!, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:24, archived)
# Sorry, it's a very geeky one...
LaTeX - pronounced "Lay-tech"* - is a typesetting mark-up language which is a geeky alternative to using a word processor.

EDIT: @slight - of course I'm ashamed. I even wrote the LaTeX file for it so I could get it to look convincing.

*Yes, that in itself sounds a bit like a futuristic double entendre...
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:25, archived)
# geeky?
well, i guess anyone writing equations *is* a bit geeky so yeah. though i've taken to using it instead of a word processor pretty much the whole time.



/geek blog
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:29, archived)
# Well, I suppose it's considered geeky
in the sense that it takes longer to figure out than Word does. A bit like the difference between people who use software packages to design web pages and those who prefer to code in HTML.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:32, archived)
# Don't worry
I embrace my geekiness :)

(I prefer to code in HTML, too. That says a lot. I also disdain all these WYSIWYG LaTeX editors and just use Emacs. Even on Windows. Fucking hell, I really am a nerd.)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:33, archived)
# wussy
real geeks use vi
(Your watch is still saving for 5K but has learnt about 'nose bondage', Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:47, archived)
# I use VI
for a lot of programming, especially Makefiles and small changes to source codes, including LaTeX source. For dealing with a bigger document I'll use Emacs.

I'm an equal-opportunities geek.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:51, archived)
# Oh, right, yeah...
...that's a good one. Ha ha.

Jesus Christ on a bike... it's a bit esoteric isn't it?
(I helped save b3ta! Doctor When May your wife shat and chipper, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:35, archived)
# yay for nerd jokes!
today's been good for them :)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 15:28, archived)
# hurrah for LaTeX
it rocks. That is all.
(I helped save b3ta! crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 20:47, archived)