Wherein John Ahn has to explain to Mr. Davis what "pwned" means

Subject: IpoD!!!!
Date: Tuesday 17:34:52
From: "McCree_Michelle" <micmcc@bergen.org>
To: "frosh" <frosh@bergen.org>, "Campanioni_Sophie" <sopcam@bergen.org>, "jun" <jun@bergen.org>, "sen" <sen@bergen.org>

If any one has seen or picked up my pink mini ipod PLEASE let me know ... if i dont have it home byu tomarrow i will have a death sentence. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!! it has 281 songs...

Michelle McCree

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Subject: RE: IpoD!!!!
Date: Tuesday 19:26:42
From: "Hogan_Colin" <colhog@bergen.org>
To: "McCree_Michelle" <micmcc@bergen.org>, "frosh" <frosh@bergen.org>, "Campanioni_Sophie" <sopcam@bergen.org>, "jun" <jun@bergen.org>, "sen" <sen@bergen.org>

Campanioni_Sophie =/= soph

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Now, the story goes that John Ahn then sent out an email in reply which read "gt fucking pwned", but I have no record of such an email. Presumably he sent it only to this Michelle McCree. Well, Michelle forwards it to Mr. Davis, who calls John down to his office.

"Did you sell it on eBay?" Mr. Davis asks him.
"Huh?"
"We were told you pawned Michelle McCree's iPod on eBay."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
And so Mr. Davis printed out the email and showed it to him.
"OH! That doesn't say 'pawned'... that says 'pwned'!"
"What's 'pwned'?"
"Well, if you're playing CS, and some guy comes up behind you and knifes you, that's pwned."

He then continued to give other examples, all from Counterstrike. Eventually Mr. Davis understood, although John still got in trouble for using the word "fucking" in the email.

-Sniffnoy

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I dreamt that I got carried away by a giant squirrel. Does that make me
a nut?

The nondaily report [n+k]

Dr. Nevard was absent again yesterday, so we did a lot more nothing. I started a game of EAC during Senior Topics, but we didn't have time to finish. The Gadgets in that game seem way more powerful than anything in Chrononauts...

Yesterday was also the infamous International Day of Tolerance assembly, which is, normally, intolerable. This year, however, they managed to put on, if not a good show, at least a tolerable one. The step team actually did something different, for one thing. :P But there was one act that was really great. It was announced that some people were going to play a Russian folk song, about something or other. Then Jon de Vogel, Max Siriani, Sam Fishman, and I forget who the 4th was, none of whom are Russian, get up on stage, all but Sam with electric guitars, and they start playing the *Tetris theme*. Apparently it actually was taken from a Russian folk song... but they didn't sing the words, or use Russian instruments, or anything. They just played the Tetris theme on electric guitar. It was amazing.

I've noticed that English doesn't seem to have an adjective describing a person who has to go to the bathroom. Dr. Mayers's suggestion: "Well, you could use 'gravid'..."

Here I was going to write about how John Ahn ended up having to explain to Mr. Davis what "pwned" means, but I am tired, so I will do so in a separate entry later.

Whee, yesterday I went to a party at Karen's house, where we watched Napoleon Dynamite... which contains a llama. At some point afterward I said that I should learn to do a llama imitation. That would require growing your ears tall, said Chris. No, Ben pointed out, that would just make you an elf. Yes! I could be a llama that speaks Elvish! What, for Halloween? "No," somebody said, "permanently!" And somehow this led to Chris joking that scientists can now estimate a person's "llama potential", as in, how good of a llama they would make. I happened to note that the llama field was minus the gradient of the llama potential... and so of course we started talking about llamas like electricity, speaking about things like "llama charge density", and then I noted that the divergence of the camel field is zero... and that camels are dipoles, if you cut one in half, you get two smaller camels. Worms are also dipoles, said Chris. And of course if you run a llama through a constant camel field it'll go in a circle...

Yeah.

-Sniffnoy

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"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and
he's warm for the rest of his life."
-Terry Pratchett, _Jingo_