I've got shark bait chillin' in the Frigidaire, a million ways of showin' you how I care.
                -Trisha Yearwood, "If I Ain't Got You", The Song Remembers When (misheard by banazir)

What are your favorite misheard lyrics? Please name the song title and artist if you know them.

(The above phrase was supposed to be "I've got Chardonnay chillin' in the Frigidaire".)

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Banazir

(Cross-posted to found_objects. You may have seen some of these already, if you followed my travellogue.)

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I really didn't know that Peking University was founded by Magneto.

( At Hongqiao Market, 17 Jun 2006 )
( At our family reunion dinner, 17 Jun 2006 )
( Coming home from Tiananmen Square, 18 Jun 2006 )
( At the Great Wall, 20 Jun 2006 )
( English Pub and Texas Grill at Holiday Inn Lido Plaza Beijing, 21 Jun 2006 )
( World Cup for Women poster at Mister Pizza, 24 Jun 2006 )
( Seals and stamps at Hongqiao Market, 26 Jun 2006 )
( Lee-Hom Wang water bottles, 28 Jun 2006 )
( Family emblems, 28 Jun 2006 )
( DVD shop, 28 Jun 2006 )

--
Banazir

(Cross-posted to engrish and found_objects. You may have seen some of these already, if you followed my travellogue.)

Let me tell you, we Chinese folks are as good with the Engrish as the Japanese! Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
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At Yuanmingyuan (the Garden of Perfect Brightness), one of the Imperial gardens, taken 12 Jun 2006.
The words corresponding to "depicting" are actually "etching pictures" (diao₁hua₄), so I think it's probably meant to be "defacing".

( From TV, 16 Jun 2006 )
( Bag of snacks covered in curse words, 16 Jun 2006 )
( Hongqiao Market, 17 Jun 2006 )
( The Forbidden City and a Tibetan Buddhist Temple, 19 Jun 2006 )
( The Tombs of the Ming Emperors and the Great Wall, 20 Jun 2006 )

Hope you enjoyed these,
Banazir

As those of you who have been following the story of my course, CIS 690, Data Mining in Bioinformatics, may recall, I have changed the prerequisite from CIS 300 (Data Structures and Algorithms) to CIS 200 (Introduction to Computer Science).

There are 10 people in the class but only 5 are taking it: 3 CIS undergrads, 1 Ph.D. student in Math, and 1 Ph.D. student in Statistics. That leaves 5 auditors: 1 M.S. student in CIS (and Ph.D. student in Stats), 1 Ph.D. student in CIS, 1 statistics faculty member, and 2 SUROP students (Math and CS).

"How does one cater to such a diverse audience?" I wondered. A couple of them are quite familiar with BLAST and dynamic programming, while the whole concept of string matching algorithms (or algorithms in general) is new to others.

Thus did I come up with the following example for explaining edit distance and k-approximate string matching today:

--u-r- 2-- q--l 4-- mee!1!!
++|+|+ x++ x++| x++ ||-|---    insert (10) / delete (4) / twiddle (3)
you're too cool for me-!---

( History is philosophy teaching by examples )

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Banazir