Word: weirdness
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...slide show, he illustrated the distinction between "heroes" and "clowns". The clown, he explained, is the part of the human spirit that was pushed aside "when you went to the first day of school... ready to rock, ready to roll, and everyone was looking at you. Because you looked weird...
Another effect of this was some weird seedings, such as Penn being behind Dartmouth and Harvard in the other pool, even though the Quakers had beaten the Big Green. Penn eventually went on to win the pool...
...know the stereotypes: Adams is home to artsy, alternative types; Mather's for the jocks; Eliot is snobby and Dunster is just plain weird. "No longer!" gloats the administration. In an attempt to fight the polarization that has supposedly taken over the College and thus increase the diversity within the campus, the administration has decided that upper-class housing should not be a matter of choice (not even the four-house non-ordered variety...
When corporate America meets the art of bagel making, weird things begin to happen. The old-school method of bagelmaking is to first boil the dough (high-gluten flour and yeast) for 60 seconds and then bake for about 15 minutes, a process that delivers a soft, chewy interior and a golden brown, crunchy exterior. Some mass producers, such as Einstein, have replaced boiling with 15 seconds of intense steaming, leaving some traditionalists aghast...
...computer drifts planlessly and gets into trouble. In the end, that may have been my biggest advantage: I could figure out its priorities and adjust my play. It couldn't do the same to me. So although I think I did see some signs of intelligence, it's a weird kind, an inefficient, inflexible kind that makes me think I have a few years left...