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Could you quote the context? I couldn't find it in the article.

• analog31 10y ago
  Holy smoke, I think I've been virus'd. Here it is in the article: The just-published book “Concrete Sewage dynamics,” by University of California-Berkeley professors Brad DeLong and Stephen S. Cohen, needs an expanded sequel -- 900 pages long, with charts, data, theory and an exhaustive list of historical case studies. The word "sewage" shows up 17 times on that page. Now I pull up the same article on another computer, and the word "sewage" is absent. I'd been seeing this word in other articles, and wondered if it was some sort of newfangled slang. Now I may have a bigger problem on my hands. Glad I asked. Looks like I'll be switching this computer over to Linux sooner than I thought. Update: I am the victim of a harmless prank, perpetrated by my children. How embarrassing that it had to play out on Hacker News.
  • dragonwriter 10y ago
    Sounds like something similar to "cloud to butt" converting "economics" to "sewage dynamics"
    • analog31 10y ago
      It was a Chrome extension, apparently related to XKCD. In fact I saw a little symbol for it in the bookmarks bar, and assumed it was just a link to XKCD, which I know my kids are interested in.
      • pohl 10y ago
        That's awesome. Give your children a round of high-fives.
        • analog31 10y ago
          I can't imagine where they got the hacker gene from. ;-)