Alex White wrote:
-- Non ex transverso sed deorsum
I didn't know what the Latin meant so I looked it up. "Latin for 'down not across'. The official motto of sysadmins everywhere." > Down, not across > > The mantra and/or motto of the BOFH tribe, as well as suicidally depressed > individuals everywhere. The phrase refers to how one should apply a razorblade to > one's wrist to achieve best results. In this case, Down, not across refers to > slicing parallel to your wrist as to more fully evacuate blood from the body. > Exercising the blade perpendicular to the wrist will take longer to die from, and > also tends to sever important tendons, making it very hard to grasp the razor. Nice :-) -- Michael Lake Computational Research Support Unit Science Faculty, UTS Ph: 9514 2238 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
