Word: beeped
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Once you are authenticated by the system, the swipe machine emits a loud sound--one beep for first-years and a series of beeps for upper-class students...
...preconceived notions about what a Muslim is supposed to be like--especially a Muslim woman. They assume I'm going to be either quiet and subservient or violent and terrorist....In airports, they check my bags three times over. Even when the metal detector doesn't beep when I go through it, they scan...
...POORLY AT THE BEEP...
...tons of information, most of it free). Behind the scenes, database software (Oracle's, of course) will make all this goodness transparently simple to navigate. On the front end, in Ellison's vision, might be Apple's famously friendly user interface, returning, Lazarus-like, with a cute little beep, to drive a stake through the heart of Microsoft...
...even with the poison-gas effect the play veers a little too far into the realm of absurdity. The characters successfully end up seeming crazy without being enlightening. They have some insight into this fact: as Beep says early in the play, "Maybe we really are just stupid." But when they suggest they are just like us--in Beep's words, "I guess we're all the same"--one feels inclined to object. The Day of the Dogs never gives us sufficient opportunity to do anything but distance ourselves from the characters...