From: Ray Z. <rz...@co...> - 2004-02-16 22:14:09
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On Feb 16, 2004, at 4:26 PM, Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko wrote: > >> At the time, Chris seemed pretty interested in eventually having some >> variation of this design included in SPOPS. I've implemented only >> small pieces of it for my own use and I suspect it just that on >> Chris's end it just came down to a shortage of tuits. > > [Sun Feb 16 16:20:37 2004] [error] [client 143.48.3.90] error parsing > "tuits". Word not in dictionary due to foreign classes in the > inheritance tree. :-) Right, sorry. I'm not totally sure of the history of that "term". You often hear someone say, they'll do something when they "get around to it", meaning when they find the time. I imagine someone, somewhere changed it to "get a round tuit" so they could blame their failure to complete some task on the lack of "round tuits". Ray Zimmerman Director, Laboratory for Experimental Economics and Decision Research 428-B Phillips Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 phone: (607) 255-9645 fax: (815) 377-3932 |