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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2002-01-24 08:57 am
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Blat

I am now feeling vaguely embarrassed at bringing two friends so far aboard LJ if it goes down so frequently.

I bet if, when discussing Byte Order Marks, I make the throwaway joke "Somebody set up us the BOM" the copy editors will, in fact, throw it away. I could insert a comment noting that it's intentional, but I don't know if I'd care that much about it.

Anyway, the joke wouldn't carry through translation.

BOM

[identity profile] magid.livejournal.com 2002-01-24 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
we have a math BOM at work (that would be board o' managers)....

(for ages after i started working here i wondered what the math bomb they were talking about was. if it exploded, would numbers, operations, variables, other mathy stuff come out? "eek, i've been y-intercepted!")