chrisjrn's site » mehffort http://chris.neugebauer.id.au Indeed it is. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:06:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 ICPC 2008 Final Results http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2008/09/18/icpc-2008-final-results/ http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2008/09/18/icpc-2008-final-results/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:16:35 +0000 Christopher Neugebauer http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2008/09/18/icpc-2008-final-results/ The 2008 ACM South Pacific Programming Contest Results have been confirmed: my team’s come 3rd overall (as expected). We find out whether or not we’ve achieved a wild card position in the World Finals in December.

The Mehffort Musketeers

]]> http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2008/09/18/icpc-2008-final-results/feed/ 3 A brief (though complete) history of “Mehffort” http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2008/09/14/a-brief-though-complete-history-of-mehffort/ http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2008/09/14/a-brief-though-complete-history-of-mehffort/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:11:02 +0000 Christopher Neugebauer http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2008/09/14/a-brief-though-complete-history-of-mehffort/ Continue reading →]]> For the benefit of those who were intersted, Mehffort is a portmanteau of meh and effort, and is a very popular word in the semester 2, 2008 Maclab dialect of English. It is used to convey one’s lack of motivation towards a particular task. In context:

  • Me: Paris, help me come up with a witty slogan for the TUCS T-Shirt.
  • Paris: Mehffort.

As proud denizens of the Maclab, my ACM ICPC team for this year decided to adopt the word as part of our team name.

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