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1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2014 19:36:23 EST Joshua Judson Rosen
   I really want to list "data tectonics" as skill on my résumé.
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   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2014 19:40:28 EST Joshua Judson Rosen
     Trying to remember how the phrase "data tectonics" g ot into my head. I think I was trying to come up with an acronym for something the other day, but can't remember what.
   • chillicampari (chillicampari)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2014 21:02:31 EST chillicampari

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     • Joshua Judson Rosen
     @rozzin That's a pretty neat phrase. I don't know we visualize the same thing but I'm curious as to what the idea seed was.
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2014 22:50:36 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • chillicampari
     @chillicampari, my internal image of "data tectonics" actually shifted slightly when I looked up "tectonics" in a dictionary ☺
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2014 22:53:21 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • chillicampari
     In retrospect, I'm... `impressed' that I was able to go ~20 years with a misunderstanding of what "tectonics" actually means.
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   • chillicampari (chillicampari)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2014 23:09:29 EST chillicampari

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     • Joshua Judson Rosen
     @rozzin Okay, that's pretty funny. Sounds like you need new word? :p
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2014 09:28:04 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • chillicampari
     The only context in which I'd ever had opportunity to glark "tectonics" was cursory descriptions of "plate tectonics"....
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2014 09:29:07 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • chillicampari
     The explanations of "plate tectonics" were always "that the Earth was covered by plates IN MOTION"—with emphasis apparently on the MOTION.
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2014 09:35:45 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • chillicampari
     I'd always #assumed that the "tectonics" in "plate tectonics" referred to the relative motion/interactions of the plates.
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2014 09:41:54 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • chillicampari
     Now I understand that "plate tectonics" is actually "OMG it's MADE OUT OF PLATES, and BTW a side effect of that is that THEY MOVE."
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2014 10:06:06 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • chillicampari
     I guess I figured people were forgetting how to punctuate again when saying "plate-tectonics", when really they did mean "plate tectonics".
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2014 10:09:16 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

     • chillicampari
     The difference between `how something is made out of stuff' and `how stuff makes up something' is subtle enough....
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