[bip] Blog post on bioinformatics and Python

[Andrew Dalke]

On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:00 PM, C. Titus Brown wrote:
> Andrew, you're missing the part where we're smarter than you.  That's
> why we'll do a better job of solving the problems!

Pshaw!  You dadgum whippersnappers left out "wittier, more
handsome, and debonair."


> And I think the correct saying is 'tweaking the proboscis'.

Would you believe that Google has never heard of that phrase?

Even when I spelled it "probiscus".  Or tried "tweak the proboscis"

But as any any reader of Sir Walter Scott's "Old Mortality" (1816)
would know (*ahem* Google, what Google?)

    “The consequence thereof, beloved,” said Bothwell, in
     the same tone of raillery, “will be, firstly, that I
     will tweak thy proboscis or nose. Secondly, beloved,
     that I will administer my fist to thy distorted visual
     optics; and will conclude, beloved, with a practical
     application of the flat of my sword to the shoulders
     of the recusant.”
      -- http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6941/6941.txt


And thus continues our own raillery.


				Andrew
				dalke at dalkescientific.com