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You might not have known this, but a lot of non-living objects are actually either male or female. Here are some examples:
FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.
PHOTOCOPIERS: These are female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warm them up again.They are an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are pushed, but can also wreak havoc if you push the wrong Buttons.
TYRES: Tires are male, because they go bald easily and are often over inflated HOT AIR
BALLOONS: Also a male object, because to get them to go anywhere, you have to light a fire under their butt.
SPONGES: These are female, because they are soft, squeezable and retain water.
WEB PAGES: Female, because they're constantly being looked at and frequently getting hit on.
TRAINS: Definitely male, because they always use the same old lines for picking up people.
EGG TIMERS: Egg timers are female because, over time, all the weight shifts to the bottom.
HAMMERS: Male, because in the last 5000 years, they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.
THE REMOTE CONTROL: Female. Ha! You probably thought it would be male, but consider this: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying New Law:
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Busy as a Bee!
Posted by Beccy at 9:11 a.m.
Labels: family, witty wednesday
21 comments:
- Yvonne said...
Very funny Witty Wednesday! Best of luck to Mollie and Dillon and enjoy the Vicars and Tarts party! ;) I hope you're not working too hard though getting everything done...
- 10:36 a.m.
- Alix said...
Sounds like it is busy but fun! Glad Mollie managed to get lots if information and Dillon's exams are nearly over - I sympathise about the maths!
Black and sexy of course!
Great jokes :)
- 12:47 p.m.
- laurie said...
i laughed my way through that.
photocopieers are female....ha!
(no package from you yet. i fear the postman ate it.)
- 12:51 p.m.
- Sally Lomax said...
Black and Sexy..... much more fun!
- 1:23 p.m.
- Asha said...
Very funny comparisons Beccy!:D
Glad Mollie is getting help with the project!:)
- 1:23 p.m.
- la bellina mammina said...
wow! you sure are busy!
very witty joke...:-)
- 2:04 p.m.
- Rachel said...
Ha ha, those are cute! You ARE busy!! How do find time for it all??
- 3:52 p.m.
- ChrisB said...
I was going to say vicars and tarts!
Which ever you choose you will good :) Is this a tennis club party?
- 4:35 p.m.
- Beckie said...
Very funny! The photocopier and the remote control made me laugh.
I would go black and sexy. I should rephrase that...If I were you I would go black and sexy. I probably just wouldn't go because I couldn't find anything to wear.
How wonderful than another blogger could help with the project.
- 4:37 p.m.
- the mother of this lot said...
Brilliant post!
- 5:27 p.m.
- katy said...
you sure do sound so busy and you even get nights out, that i am jealous of!
done this one before but how true are most of them lol
- 7:25 p.m.
- my4kids said...
Thats great the Mollie was able to get that information.
You definetly sound busy!
I say black and sexy!
Loved the joke
- 7:49 p.m.
- Steffi said...
Very funny and good post!
- 8:49 p.m.
- tiger lamb girl said...
Very funny:).
Hope Molly found all she needed in the end!
- 9:37 p.m.
- Lil Mouse said...
black and sexy, definitely. i would have said 'devils and angels' party.. i dont think we have vicars or tarts in the US. well, not so as you'd call them that anyway.
- 10:17 p.m.
- elena jane said...
so nice that mollie found her info :) parties are fun, go for black and sexy :)
- 1:22 a.m.
- lisa marie said...
I definitely get my giggles on Wednesday with you and your mom. And I would have thought that the remote was male. I love tyres!
- 3:16 a.m.
Thanks for the laughs!
- 3:16 a.m.
I can relate to the busy. I am so behind in blog reading. I love your male female analogies. The last is my favourite.
- 4:04 a.m.
- frannie said...
very funny!!!!
I'm tired reading all that you have going on-- I can't imagine doing it all!!!
- 7:52 p.m.
- Pamela said...
egg timers, I wish someone would flip me.
- 12:50 a.m.


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Hali and Houston, who were both in on the sack that knocked Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger out of the game and out of this week's game with shoulder and rib injuries, have each been fined by the league. Hali was fined $25,000 for hitting Roethlisberger's backup Byron Leftwich with his helmet in the fourth quarter. Hali was flagged for roughing the passer on the play, which helped move the Steelers close enough to take a 13-10 lead with a Shaun Suisham field goal.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – When it was over, the Lady Bisons were champions.
The Lipscomb women's cross country team won the 2011 Atlantic Sun Cross Country Championships, Saturday morning, on their home Vaughn's Gap course at Percy Warner Park. The championship is the first for Lipscomb cross country in the Division I era.
"We've had the best four weeks of practice I've ever seen," said head coach Bill Taylor. "I gave each of them a plan to be successful and they followed it. I'm so proud of these girls."
The Lady Bisons compiled a team score of 53 points, defeating defending champion North Florida by 16 points. Lipscomb was the only school to place six runners in the top 20 finishers.
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Hoefle and Lehman are the first set of Lipscomb teammates to ever be named to the All-Conference first team.
Freshman Minna Fields finished ninth in her first A-Sun championship race, earning second-team All-Conference honors and All-Freshman team accolades with a personal-best 18:04.50s run.
Sophomore Missy Dowd (18:14.60s) and freshman Maggie Lawrence (18:16.60s) finished 16th and 17th, respectively, with both athletes earning personal bests. Lawrence joined Fields on the All-Freshman team.
Lawrence and Fields are the second consecutive set of Lipscomb freshmen to earn All-Freshman team honors. Dani Walker and Alex Newby were All-Freshman in 2010, where Walker was also named Freshman of the Year.
While those five scores contributed to the Lipscomb aggregate, senior Catherine Beals (18:35.80s) and sophomore Emily Longden (18:41.10s) finished 20th and 21st, taking important points from North Florida and Belmont.
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While growing up, I looked forward to Christmas Eve even more so than Christmas Day. There were two reasons for this: Midnight mass at Holy Trinity Roman Catholic church, and gathering with my family to participate in the rituals and traditions of my Slovak/Rusyn heritage.
Christmas Eve, known [in Slovak] as "Štedrý Vecer" (shtedree vecher), is traditionally the biggest annual event in the home, where the entire family gathers for the traditional Slovak meal called the Vilija/Vilia (vee-lee-yah). The term comes from the Latin "vigilia" or "night watch." The name implies the joyful anticipation in waiting for the arrival of the Christ child.
My Slovak grandma (Baba) worked tirelessly to carry out the traditions of her heritage. In the Slovak culture, food is richly entwined with tradition and religious teachings, especially for Christmas, when special dishes are prepared and rituals observed.
Verona Figlar making pirohy, 1970s. [Photo held for private use by Lisa Alzo]
Our family would gather each year on Christmas Eve at my Grandma Figlar's house to celebrate the Vilia Supper. It is a meatless meal (to honor the Christian practice of fasting). During this supper, the following foods are served:
Oplatka/Oplatky (from the word oblata, which means "offering") – unleavened wafers imprinted with scenes of the Lord's holy birth, served with honey.
Mushroom soup – usually made of sauerkraut brine and dried mushrooms.
Bobalky (bo-by-ke) – sweet, raised dough or a biscuit type dough sweetened with honey and sprinkled with a pleasant preparation of poppy seed, or browned butter and sauerkraut.
Pagace/Pagach – A thin raised dough baked either in a single or double layer filled with sweet cabbage or mashed potatoes. After baking, it is brushed with butter and cut in pie wedges. We called it "Slovak Pizza."
Fish – served because Catholics in Eastern Europe observed a strict fast on the vigil of Christmas.
Pirohy – dough pockets, pastry filled with fillings of sweet cabbage, sauerkraut, lekvar, prunes, or potatoes and cheese and boiled, then served with browned butter.
Other foods eaten include dried prunes, apples, nuts, and other items as dictated by family, village or regional customs.
Slovak pastry, known as kolace or strudel-like rolls which are filled with walnuts, poppy seed, lekvar (prune butter) or cheese.
Red wine is also served.
Oplatky and honey [Photo taken by Lisa Alzo, 2005, held for private use]
The foods take a long time to prepare. My mother and grandmother would start a few days in advance to make sure everything was ready for the family on Christmas Eve. Recipes for these Christmas Eve favorites are included in my book, Baba's Kitchen: Slovak & Rusyn Family Recipes and Traditions, Second Edition (Lulu.com)
Foods served at the Slovak Vilija. [Photo by Lisa Alzo, 1995; held for private use]
After we finished the meal and family visit, it was time to attend to midnight mass at Holy Trinity. The church was (and to my knowledge still is) decorated so beautifully with seasonal flowers and white lights.
[Photo courtesy of Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, West Mifflin, PA, 2004, held for Private Use by Lisa Alzo]
One of my favorite parts of the midnight mass were the carols, many of which were sung both in English and Slovak, including Silent Night (Tichá noc). You could not leave the church without feeling the true meaning of Christmas in your heart. To hear a version of Tichá noc click here.
Time and distance, and the passing of loved ones have prevented the large family gatherings we used to have, but I still try to observe as many as the rituals and traditions as possible. Also, since I live hundreds of miles away now, I must listen to the Slovak Christmas carols on my own. I play an album that belonged to my mother, "Vesele Vianoce" by Saint Matthews Choir, recorded many, many years ago in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (the church was consolidated with other South Side parishes in 1992 into Prince of Peace Parish). But nothing will replace the special memories of those Christmas Eves at Grandma's house, and after she passed away, my own home, with my mother at the helm, or attending mass with my parents at Holy Trinity.
I will end with the traditional Slovak Christmas greeting:
Veselé Vianoce a Šťastný Nový Rok!
(Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!)


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It was good while it lasted, but Washington Nationals third baseman and UVA alum Ryan Zimmerman's hitting streak ended on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 13 at 30 games. Zimmerman went 0-for-3 with two walks on the road against the San Francisco Giants. After the game, Zimmerman tipped his figurative cap to New York Yankees centerfielder Joe DiMaggio and his record-setting 1941 streak, when he told reporters, "It makes you realize how much better 56 is than 30." Zimmerman's streak ties him for the 35th-longest in history with the likes of Hall of Famers Tris Speaker and Stan Musial. On the bright side for Nats fans, Washington did beat the Giants 6-3.


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A bi-pedal robot being developed
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LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell University will receive $1.2 million in federal funding for research and development of military robots.
Keith Buffinton, professor and department chair of mechanical engineering, who, along with Steven Shooter, professor of mechanical engineering, are lead project researchers, said, "Obviously, we are very excited to receive funding to continue work on this project and to continue our collaboration with the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition."
The long-term project focus, Buffinton said, is development of a bipedal walking robot that would move easily in an "unstructured urban environment. It would move over curbs, up stairs and around rubble."
The applications for such a device which is being developed in conjunction with investigators from the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition extend beyond military uses.
"It would have various purposes," said Buffinton. "It could be used for surveillance and to gather information in areas you would not want to risk human life. It could be used in mine disasters. In the case of the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York, rescuers faced working in extremely dangerous conditions and toxic air. Robots could do more to take the risk from humans."
The research involves a host of Bucknell engineering students. "The idea is to involve as many students as possible," he said. "They are very involved at all levels."
'Outstanding opportunity'
Shooter said the project has provided an "outstanding opportunity" for faculty and students at Bucknell to build relationships with top researchers in the field of robotics.
"The collaboration with the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition provides opportunities to explore robotic technologies that would be difficult alone," said Shooter. "These types of partnerships are the future of research that provide a win-win for everyone and have implications beyond just the scope of the project."
The researchers are currently assembling a bipedal walking robot and performing initial control system development.
Unique expertise
In announcing the funding that was included in the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act for 2009, Congressman Chris Carney said, "Researchers at Bucknell University have unique expertise in the areas of robot design, dynamics, control, modeling, simulation, prototyping experimentation and testing."
"They have previously developed a number of robot platforms including two reconfigurable robots that can balance on two wheels, four bipedal walking robots, several robot arms, and various robotic exoskeletons. This important work will contribute to the future operational capabilities of the Armed Forces of the United States in utilizing UGVs (unmanned ground vehicles)."
"I am proud to support Bucknell University's innovations for UGVs that protect our Armed Services," said Carney. "As a trained Predator Mission Commander, I know how important the robot platforms are to protecting our troops while controlling the situation on the ground."
Multiple benefits
Bucknell President Brian C. Mitchell said that the University was "grateful to Congressman Carney for recognizing the multiple benefits of this project to the U.S. military, citizens at large, Bucknell students, and the Central Pennsylvania economy.
"Representative Carney sees clearly the enormous potential of Bucknell's students and faculty in helping to drive economic progress and quality of life in the region," added Mitchell.
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i really like the idea of the brawler's guild, for some of the same reasons i like pet battles. it is a line of pve progression independent of raiding. it is completely soloable content. you can go at your own pace. the fact that other players can actually watch you fight is a really nifty addition. the only catch was that, since it is one fight at a time and players have to queue for it, there's the danger that waits would become frustratingly long. but i expected blizzard to handle that through a sensible method such as, say, grouping players into batches of 20 (or 40, or whatever) and putting them into an instanced version of the guild (similar to how battlegrounds work). plenty of people to make a respectable audience, but nobody has to wait all day to fight.
but now we have details of how blizzard plans to keep the queue lengths in check: the guild will be invitation only, with invites auctioned off ten a day on the black market auction house (minimum bid 1000g, no maximum bid). once brawlers reach a certain level in the guild (currently rank 7, which as i understand it is rather non-trivial) they can start issuing their own invitations, with nothing to stop them from charging whatever price the market will support.
blizzard's been trying real hard to make us think of fight club without actually violating copyright laws, but does anyone remember the scene in fight club where a small-time gangster comes down to the basement and interrupts the club's clandestine activities?
tyler who are you?
fat man (lou) who am I?! there's a sign on the front that says "lou's tavern." i'm fucking lou. who the fuck are you?!
tyler tyler durden.
tyler extends his hand for a shake, but lou slaps it away.
lou who told you motherfuckers you could use my place?
tyler we have a deal worked out with irvine.
lou irvine? irvine's at home with a broken collarbone.
everyone glances guiltily at each other.
lou he don't own this place, i do. how much money's he getting for this?
tyler there is no money.
lou really?
tyler it's free to all.
lou ain't that something?
tyler yes, it is.
but not the brawler's guild. it will go to the highest bidders. now, i have no idea how much these invitations will ultimately sell for (other than "over one thousand"). but i do know that when i try to picture how the brawler's guild will look in my head, i don't see a lost, frustrated generation searching to escape the meaninglessness of their lives in some dark basement. i see distinguished gentlemen drinking tea and discussing market trends in an oak-paneled lounge while waiting for some properly attired servant to discreetly inform them that the arena is ready for them now. and that makes it all sound a lot less fun.
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-Cast the rebirth of the Wolkenritter(complete with epic Knight speeches from all four of them).
-Have a heartwarmly reunion with them as also forgive Vita.
-Talk to Nanoha and Fate and asking to Shamal for cure them.
-Have a freaking planning room chat with all the cast on various details from the constitution of the monster(which also take some time to born) to ways of defeating it to a little discussion about the use of the Arc-en-Ciel.
-The ensuing battle where she cast not one, but two humongous spells(the two with corresponding magic chant).
-A "give me five" with Nanoha and Fate.
-And then she finally faints surrounded by her knights xD.
Hardly all of that can be compressed under 10 minutes unless they're fighting on Namek xDU.
I won't try to convince you of the "Unison Recovery" hypothesis but i personally are against understimating Agito and Rein just because of their size and lack of juggernaut-esque powers(specially Rein, she's after all, Reinforce I's daughter/reincarnation). Just pointing out the "10 minutes" thing xD.
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Reinforce, on the other hand, wasn't just a unison device, she was a lost logia. A lost logia capable of destroying planets. You can't compare Rein or Agito with her.
Example in case: Unisoning with Agito did nothing to improve Zest's health.
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On the "Lost Logia" and "Zest" thing i can't deny that those two are pretty solid arguments. That's why i mentioned that it will be Hayate the one replicating the "healing" process on a much weaker version using her book to empower Agito somehow and unlike Hayate the condition of the "recovery" will be rapidly deteriorating allowing Signum/Agito only a small amount of time to fight on decent conditions. Of course, the scenario for such a risk and untrusty method can only be logically used fi the situation demands Signum's precense, otherwise it will be pretty dumb to risk Signum and Agito's lives when there are still healthy fighters out there capable of taking action.
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The source on Rein's creation is A's sound stage 3, track 19. Hayate specifically talks about creating Rein as something she chose, and enlisting Yuuno and Mari to design her. This track also tells us that Hayate's book isn't the Book of Darkness, but a regular storage device created by the TSAB.
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Yup, the New Tome of the Night Sky was created by Hayate herself(don't know how, tough) and the TSAB are the ones that helped her to create the Schwertkreuz to use in combination with the book, it's mentioned that the staff is now used to cast the spells from the book contrary to the past where the book can cast the spells by itself. Apparently this crumbles the option of a "book powered unison" along with any other theory related to "Hayate searching on the misteries of her previous awesome powers" xDU. The only connection with the old Reinforce and the true legacy of the Tome of the Night Sky is apparently the fusion of her Ein's linker core to Hayate's(and arguably the fact that rein Zwei is their "daughter" of sorts because she born of the combined core). Which still left open intersting possibilites, just much more harder to justify xDU.
Well, uhm, still hope an answer about my original question about the magic used to temporary allows Hayate's legs to move. xD
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I know her constant absortion of The Book of Darkness/Reinforce is what provoked her paralysis, the Unison somehow cured it temporarily, and after the de-unison Hayate's legs become disabled again. Then Reinforce "died" and Hayate spent years in rehab now that the damage to her body has stopped and it have now time to fix it normally. Still the mistery remains on how the unisom makes her able-bodied.
The world may never know.
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That, or it's the flight spell. Flight spells seem to have telekinetic properties, so she could have simply been moving her legs like that instead of the usual way.
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There is this A's DVD booklet that says that when the Lord cannot handle the Unison Device, the latter completely takes over her body (Unison accident or somesuch). This was used to explain what happened when Hayate blacked out upon the Book's awakening: the body Nanoha and Fate were fighting was actually Hayate's, or rather a merger of both her and Reinforce's (while her consciousness was in that pocket dimension, talking to the Book's will). Her post-reprogramming Unison, however, was more her and less Eins (though her hair went almost white like Eins', for instance).
I think that's therefore logical that different levels of Unison are possible and it's up to the Device how much of itself will show up in the merger. In this case, Eins has simply replaced or merged Hayate's atrophied legs (and probably lower spine) with hers, as well as their Linker Cores, giving Hayate a fully-functional body again before it could heal properly (which took several more months after she was disconnected from the Book).
Okay, long text. To put it shortly: Unison Devices can probably choose which parts of their master's body to augment. Eins was able to give Hayate enormous mana output and replace her legs. Zwei and Agito may not be able to do the same.
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Wow! I agree with Raising Dragon on that one, a double unison seems to be pretty dangerous xDU. If the info is correct, unison devices make some sort of connection with the user's linker core and also an special synch rate is required to do that. One can fantasize on that a little tough, taking in consideration that Signum is compatible with both Agito and Rein. But there's still some danger i don't know how that will work but i guess the strain for the three involved parts will be high. Normally, a control problem over the synch rate can lead to an "unison accident", i wonder what will happen with two unison devices.
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Peach and Blue is a very good book because it has a happy ending. Peach gets off from the tree and gets to see the world. Eric's favorite character was Blue because he was very helpful to Peach. SoHyun's favorite characters were the thirteen brothers and fifteen sisters because they got Peach off the branch. Our least favorite part was when Peach was crying. The part when Peach was crying reminded SoHyun of times when she has cried. Eric thinks the illustrations are excellent because they use lots of colors. SoHyun likes the illustrations because they look beautiful.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – For the seventh time this season, the Tennessee Tech baseball team wrapped up a series without dropping a contest to its opponent. The Golden Eagles (36-14, 22-5) defeated Southeast Missouri Sunday afternoon, 5-1, to finish their most recent sweep after beating the Redhawks (22-30, 13-17) on both Friday and Saturday as well.
The Golden Eagles wasted no time getting on the scoreboard, using a sacrifice fly from junior slugger Zach Stephens to take an early 1-0 lead. Austin Wulf scored next on a wild pitch and gave Tech enough of a lead to win the game in just the first half inning of the game.
In the third, Tech struck again, this time using a little power to put runs on the board. Stephens hit his Ohio Valley Conference leading 13th home run, a solo shot to left field, to give the Golden Eagles a 3-0 lead. Dylan Bosheers would add to the Tech advantage, driving in Brandon Thomasson with an RBI single to right field.
Tech landed on the scoreboard once more, collecting a run in the top of the sixth on a sac fly off the bat of Zach Zarzour.
The Redhawks managed to avoid a shutout, grabbing one run in the bottom of the sixth on a sac fly from Matt Tellor. It would be essentially the only offense they could muster, however, as Tech starter Jacob Honea and closer Seth Lucio combined to allow just three hits on the day.
Honea earned his third win of the season, tossing seven innings of three-hit ball while giving up just one run and striking out five Redhawk batters. Lucio finished the final two innings, setting down three batters on strikes and lowering his season ERA to 0.96.
Stephens led the offense with two RBI while Daniel Miles and Bosheers led the team with two hits apiece.
The win marked the 36th of the season for the Golden Eagles, the second most in a single season in program history. The 2013 squad now trails just David Mays' 1997 team that went 39-23. The win was also the 22nd in conference play for Tech, the second most in a single season in OVC history. Tech moved to a perfect 10-0 on Sundays with the win.
The Golden Eagles will return to action on Tuesday when they welcome in-state rival Lipscomb for a 6 p.m. contest. The game will mark the last non-conference game of the regular season for Tech as the team looks to exact a little revenge after losing to the Bison in Nashville earlier this season.


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Search engines are great. Put in keywords and out pop hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of web pages. But then what? How can you effectively look at all of those pages? Maybe it's time to put people back in the equation. After all, we can still do a few things better than computers, like quickly filtering out irrelevant information. With the right tools, the computer can even help us do this more efficiently.
In this article (which is based on a more detailed paper that was presented at the 11th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics), I use human-aided filtering to focus in on useful information. I have incorporated human-aided filtering into a tool for finding software plagiarism. After the tool finds similar sections of code in two programs, the human and the computer work together to pinpoint the results that are most relevant.
For the past decade, I've been an expert witness in intellectual property cases and asked to examine software source code from a plaintiff or defendant to determine whether one has plagiarized code from the other. Over time, I've found that the few existing tools for plagiarism detection were too inaccurate for situations where hundreds of millions of dollars could be at stake. Consequently, I developed my own tool called "CodeMatch" (www.safe-corp.biz/products_codesuite.htm).
CodeMatch uses four algorithms to determine the correlation between source-code files for different programs:
- Statement Correlation. A measure of the number of identical statements.
- Comment Correlation. A measure of the number of identical comments.
- Identifier Correlation. A measure of the number of identical and nearly identical identifiers.
- Instruction Sequence Correlation. A measure of the longest sequence of identical instructions.
After using CodeMatch on a number of cases, I found that although it had great accuracy, it shared one deficiency with the other toolstoo much output. After examining the results, I often found information that was not relevant to the particular case on which I was working. Because a large comparison could take a week for results, it was impractical to rerun the comparison using new settings. I began to spend time manually filtering the results to obtain a more manageable and more relevant set of results. The main purpose of CodeMatch was to reduce the time I spent looking at lines of code. While it did reduce my time by at least an order of magnitude from manually examining code files, I now wanted to reduce the time I spent poring over the results. (My wife thinks this is a bit crazy since I get paid per hour.)


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"Those Old Memories" will include stories, photographs, genealogy, scrapbooking, recipes, and interesting history of my family. Some family surnames: Troyer, Gardner, Moore, Hopkins, Allen, Amsberry, McPherson, Wyatt, Godfrey, Lee, Henley, Cutbirth, Tudor, Gustafsson, Larson, Hellgren, Farley, Harshbarger, Harvey, McComsey, Johnston, Hyndman, and Buchanan.
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My First Blogger Award !
Karen from the great blog Ancestor Soup has nominated me for the Kreativ Blogger Award! What an honor from Karen especially since I love to read her blogs too. All of us who blog do it for the love of it but it is wonderful when our peers recognize our efforts! I am a little slow with this response but I want to thank Karen again so much for the nomination.
As the winner I am to list seven things about myself and then pass the award along to seven other bloggers who I think deserve the award also.
1) My days are filled with as much genealogy reading and or research as I can possibly squeeze in. Wish the days were even longer!
2) My husband is a railroader so he is gone a lot but even when he is home I usually get in a few hours on the computer. He leaves me alone in my own little world most of the time, but he does think meals are still pretty important. He indulges my whims to the max as to tech equipment and travel with my sister-in-law to pursue my research or find the next cemetery.
3) For years while I was running our business, I didn't have the time to "play". Now I am trying to make up for lost time! My grandchildren are far away but it is for them that I blog and research so they will know their family history and have that precious treasure also.
4) Five years ago , I didn't even know how to turn on a computer. Wow, what an experience of learning. I have loved every minute of it and looking forward to many more years of learning.
5) I am also engrossed in digital scrapbooking and photo restoration so I work at fitting time in each day for some of that also. I am an avid collector of antiques and memorabilia, photographs and especially old family pictures so all this keeps me busy. My photo library has grown to almost 28,000 now with old family slides, cabinet cards and photos.
6) I love doing heritage crafts, studying history and reading, which also goes along great with my genealogy work. My Dad passed on his love of country and history to me, which I am so thankful for and thus I can't think of anything better than the prospect of always learning something new about family, country, or life!
7) I have two spoiled dogs that keep me company--and force me to take time off from the computer occasionally. They keep daily life interesting on the home front.
I try to read about 20 blogs every day and many more that I get caught up on about once a week. Many offer such good content and stories--and learning opportunities. Below are a select few of my favorites, the seven that I have chosen to pass the Kreativ Blogger Award to:
Roots and Leaves
Relatively Curious
West in New England
Grace and Glory
Nebraska Roots and Ramblings
George Geder
What's Past is Prologue
Please check out these great blogs if you haven't already! If you are like me, you will always enjoy new reading.
Cheri Hopkins aka The You Go Genealogy Girl #2
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