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Construe (v.)
To explain or interpret something, often involving some kind of analysis or spin doctoring (but not like the terrible 1990s jam band).
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The 500 Mile Email Problem
I was working in a job running the campus email system some years ago when I got a call from the chairman of the statistics department.
"We're having a problem sending email out of the department."
"What's the problem?" I asked.
"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.
I choked on my latte. "Come again?"
"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here," he repeated. "A little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther."
A really strange bugfix story from the early days of the internet.
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