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Wednesday, April 03 2002

N.Y. Times : The Brave New Kitchen (No Room for Cooking)

"I studied [the design] a long time before saying: "It's beautiful. But where do we put the ugly stuff?" There was no place in this clever kitchen for a trash can. And yet cooking is all about garbage. Garbage for a good cause, but garbage nonetheless. Our hired genius wound up designing a clever slot under a counter alongside the stove, the perfect solution in a kitchen that still feels perfect 10 years later. Still, I think of that oversight whenever I hear the words "architect" and "food" in a single sentence."

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Me : An interesting project would be to write a MT object driver to read and write wblgml....

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : write-only

Unreadable or indecipherable. Something of sufficient complexity that it is incomprehensible. Often applied to someone else's style of writing software.
ex. I've spent an hour trying to figure out what your freaking write-only PERL script does: lean to use some comments for a change!

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : probity

Probity \Prob"i*ty\, n. [F. probit['e], fr. L. probitas, fr. probus good, proper, honest. Cf. {Prove}.] Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness. ``Probity of mind.'' --Pope. Syn: {Probity}, {Integrity}. Usage: Probity denotes unimpeachable honesty and virtue, shown especially by the performance of those obligations, called imperfect, which the laws of the state do not reach, and can not enforce. Integrity denotes a whole-hearted honesty, and especially that which excludes all injustice that might favor one's self. It has a peculiar reference to uprightness in mutual dealings, transfer of property, and the execution of trusts for others. web1913
probity n : complete and confirmed integrity wn

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