Friday, June 22, 2007

No, I Always Talk Like This

The following from an actual IM conversation I had the other day:

(09:06:15 PM) He: Doesn't the axiom of choice irritate you sometimes?
(09:06:25 PM) Me: not usually. It seems quite reasonable to me.
(09:06:38 PM) He: It's really the well ordering principle
(09:06:40 PM) Me: now, the well ordering principle bugs me.
(09:06:42 PM) He: that bugs me

Observe the 2 second deltas between the last three comments.

3 comments:

Matthew said...

Was it my starting to post again that reminded you that you have one of these things too?

I can only assume that your observation of the two-second deltas is a cheap shot at the IM conversation I posted earlier, whose "he/me" form you're referencing, surely, and whose deltas extend to six minutes.

In other words I'm surely the slowest of all of your friends. But at least I've learned a new vocabulary word.

Alec said...

Well, I posted this discussion last June, so I'd say I've just been derelict in keeping this thing up.

Matthew said...

Funny how we only see the things we wish to.

I will go slap my forehead now, and never try to be clever again.

In my defense, I haven't been sure which month it is for the past two years.