New Word: "Padumps".. ..futher,

In an earlier post on Etymology...

"New Word: "Padumps" (Pronounced, Pa - Dumps) The thingy's that go in your ears with the I-Pod system, that 'dump' content into your ears, padumps.

Vicki-Lynn, Toronto, August 26, 2007"

Since then, it has come to my attention that it is a term used in music, as exampled in this Google search result:

Boolean search: "padumps computer science"

1 Result:

[PDF] FSU’s new president—on the job
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat -view as HTML
degrees in computer science from. FSU and succeeded in their. careers. ..... “padump-padumps” and other sounds. imitating trombones and kettle drums. ...
www.fsu.edu/~fstime/FS-Times/febmar03.pdf - Similar pages

This took about 5 minutes of work -- along the thread of "beat".

The kicker to solving the puzzle was the algorithm, computer science.

As far as I understand, in the dictionary makers world -- one more reference and it's "officially" a word!

Etymology.



(please excuse any cashed pages on the Internet with a 'bug' label)
mh

New Word: "Padumps"

New Word: "Padumps" (Pronounced, Pa - Dumps) The thingy's that go in your ears with the I-Pod system, that 'dump' content into your ears, padumps.

Vicki-Lynn, Toronto, August 26, 2007



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What do these links have in common?

Interactive Learning Technology Mashup

Themis Mission
Advanced Concepts Team
Bow Wave of the Solar System
Aurora Borealis
Grand Unified Theory
Curved Space
The Jetson's

ANSWER: click the red letters

A. PBS show ZOOM?
B. Karl Rove's plan to Win in '08?
C. Goddesses?
D. Hover Cars?


Interactive learning technology
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Cheney Wants To Burn Books For Fuel!

A friend of mine was watching one of those Sunday Week in Politics shows and Vice President Dick Cheney was on talking about energy self-sufficiency, and Cheney says, and I can't believe this; a solution to the foreign oil problem

"..is shredding all the books and making them into ethanol. I mean, with the Internet we don't need them anymore..."

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Stephen Colbert interviewed by Bill O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor,

Bill O'Reilly plays Stephen Colberts' shtick and between the lines admits to being all about Hartred and War.

And then on Comedy Central later that night, confirms as much admitting the role playing had exposed his evil plan... "...this was a huge mistake, me comin' on here..".

Billy O'Reilly is a fascist. Yes. That's right, you heard me. I'm not listening. I can't hear you...

..lalala, lalala, lalala, lalala...



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6.4 billion digits of Pi

How long would it take to recite Pi
using the following Java applet?

Push to Start

Click on the Harpsichord version in the list - it's funny!

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

A bit of interactive learning technology, produced by me!


Every letter of the English alphabet is used in this Pangram. Read the dot field from left to right, top to bottom; follow the dots up to the sentence to confirm.




This sentence is used to display typefaces and test equipment.



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