Most likely it was written by a student who got feffed up! Anatoly _____ From: ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Stefano Ciurli Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 8:31 AM To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: [Ifeffit] wiggly lines Hello all, I found this funny dialog on the web. I think it is worth a smile :-) Stefano "What is feff," You ask? "Well, I am glad that you asked that," I say. Then I continue, "Feff is a computer program that makes wiggly lines appear on your computer screen." "Not my computer screen," you say. "Yes, I suppose not YOUR computer screen- MY computer screen... Anyways, sometimes the lines are long and really very wiggly, and sometimes the lines are hardly very wiggly at all. But, there are always at least a few wiggles; you can count on that." "And another thing about the wiggly lines," I exclaim. "Sometimes those wiggly lines are pretty good wiggly lines, but then again, sometimes they are pretty bad." "How can you tell the difference," you ask? "Well, that's really very simple. Just go show the wiggly lines to your boss, and if he looks HAPPY then you have just shown him GOOD wiggly lines... If he looks SAD then you have just shown him BAD wiggly lines. And if he says, 'What the hell are all these wiggly lines?' then you probably just went into the wrong office; try down the hall a bit... ...just a little further... ...now on your left... ... next one... that's it! Good luck with those wiggly lines!" -- ____________________________________________ Stefano Ciurli Professor of Chemistry Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry Department of Agro-Environmental Science and Technology University of Bologna Viale Giuseppe Fanin, 40 I-40127 Bologna Italy Phone: +39-051-209-6204 Fax: +39-051-209-6203 "Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza" Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Canto XXVI "Ihr seid bestimmt, nicht Tieren gleich zu leben, Nein, Tugend zu erringen und Erkenntnis" "Ye were not form'd to live the life of brutes, But virtue to pursue and knowledge high"