If you read the doco (like “man gai.conf”) you would be forgiven for thinking that the contents of /etc/gai.conf controlled source and destination address selection in IPv6. You would be wrong.
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Trust me, I’m a verbologist.
“To verb” is to make a verb out of something else, typically a noun. Lots of common words are (or appear to be) verbed nouns (even though many are nouned verbs!), so the verb “to verb” tends to be used only with obvious neoplasms.
“To verbify” is simply to use many verbs (cf. “speechify”).
“Verbification” is the noun form of “verbify”, as in “his verbification was delightful”.
“Verbifying” is an alternative to “verbification”, as in “his verbifying delighted the audience”.
A verb constructed by verbing a nouned verb is of course a “reverb”. Repeating the process (which is orthographically invisible except to the trained professional) is known as reverberation.
Trust me, I’m a verbologist.
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ID Cards
[This was written in 2006 in reaction to a then-proposed Australian benefits card, but it applies to any similar card, proposed by any Government, in any country. The card was intended, allegedly, to support access to welfare; in practice, however, the proposal described an identity card…]
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Marketing
If you have an apple and you want to sell me your apple and, in spite of me telling you I do not need, do not want and indeed will never need or want your apple, you continue to ring me on a daily basis during dinner time to try to explain why I should buy your apple then I reserve the right to tell you to stick your f***ing apple where the sun does not shine. Get the idea?
Karl Auer, June 2006
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Past tense
We are many; the future will certainly find enough of our bones to work with.
Karl Auer, July 2006
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Apostrophe’s
There once was a sad old apostrophe
Whose functions had started to atrophe.
It lay in it’s bed
Weakly shaking it’s head
And murmuring “its a catastrophe!”Karl Auer, October 2006
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Bank limits
True story: I tried to transfer some money from the Commonwealth Bank a few years ago, and struck a daily limit of $5000, with no way around it.
So when I was planning to move back to Australia from Switzerland and knew I’d need to transfer a deposit (for a house) out of Switzerland , I rang my Swiss bank. The following conversation ensued:
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No excuse
The odd placid Tibetan monk or eccentric English vicar does not make up for the megalitres of blood spilled in the name of God.
Karl Auer, January 2007
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Three speeds
There are only three speeds in computing. They are ‘too slow’, ‘fast enough’ and ‘I don’t know ‘.
Karl Auer, March 2007
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A Solution To Littering?
I think all manufacturers should be required to mark their output with an identifier, and should be required to accept it for return at any retail or wholesale outlet of that product, at no (direct) cost to the returner.