A new degree in Male Studies
TWO YEAR DEGREE A new two-year degree is being offered at the University that many of you should be interested in: Becoming a Real Man. That’s right, in just six trimesters, you, too, can be a real man-as well as earn a MA degree (Male Arts). Please take a moment to look over the program [...]
Holiday party planning
MEMO TO ALL EMPLOYEES RE: Christmas PARTY ON DEC. 23RD DATE: DEC. 1ST I’m happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place on December 23, starting at noon in the banquet room at Luigi’s Open Pit Barbecue. No-host bar, but plenty of eggnog! We’ll have a small band playing traditional carols…feel [...]
Worst analogies from high school essays
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one [...]
Engineer’s mind
Q: What will you get when you ask two software engineers to tell you a greatest common divisor of 18 and 28? A: 1) A software library that calculates the greatest common divisor of any number X and Y. 2) A software library that performs dozens of math operations on numbers 18 and 28.
Poster on relationships
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How to improve your day
At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down. Page yourself over the intercom. Don’t disguise your voice. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that. Put your garbage can on your desk [...]
Math exam
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