Saturday, September 22 2001

Damian Conway : "I mean, how often do you get to see a destructor that calls its own invocant

in order to invoke a closure to lexically flag another destructor to delete itself, thereby removing a subroutine call from the middle of a series of nested closures?"

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N.Y. Times : Interview with Stefan Fatsis,

author of "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players." Warning : this guy is not only a bit annoying to listen to, but will also shatter any illusions you might have had about Scrabble being a nice, quiet game for word-nerds. see also : Confessions of a Scrabble Junkie. (real evil g2)

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is maunder

| source : web1913 | Maunder \Maund"er\, v. t. To utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter. | source : web1913 | Maunder \Maund"er\, n. A beggar. [Obs.] | source : web1913 | Maund \Maund\, Maunder \Maund"er\, v. i. [Cf. F. mendier to beg, E. mendicant.] 1. To beg. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. Beau. & Fl. 2. To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently. He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. --Sir W. Scott. | source : wn | maunder v 1: wander aimlessly 2: talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice [syn: {mumble}, {mutter}, {maffle}, {mussitate}] 3: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: {chatter}, {piffle}, {palaver}, {prate}, {tittle-tattle}, {twaddle}, {clack}, {prattle}, {gibber}, {tattle}, {blabber}, {gabble}]

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