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!"
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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"