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• Prelims: (From L. pre [before] + limbo [oblivion]) An obligatory ritual practiced by graduate students just before the granting of a Ph.
  D. (if the gods are appeased) or an M.S. (if they aren't)....
• Ytterbium: A rare and inconsequential element, named after the village of Ytterby
  Sweden (not to be confused with Iturbi, the late pianist and film personality, who was actually Spanish, not Swedish)....
• A novice asked the master: "I perceive that one computer company is much larger than all others.
  It towers above its competition like a giant among dwarfs....
• There comes to all races an ultimate crisis which you have yet to face .
  ... One day our minds became so powerful we dared think of ourselves as gods....
• One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.
  -- Vladimir Leni...
• loop through: vt. To process each element of a list of things.
  "Hold on, I've got to loop through my paper mail....
• Grignard: A fictitious class of compounds often found on organic exams and never in real life.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• A lot of software developers are seduced by the old "80/20" rule.
  It seems to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people use 20% of the features....