richard always complains that the project doesn't have enough developers, but there actually is a sufficiently large group of people working on it. at least in terms of kaa's law.

to avert the adamant excuse-me-siring of the seriously official gentlemen, i explained that yes, i had left out an 's'; no, i am not a terrorist; yes, it was a paper about the poisson distribution.

i was kind of surprised to find out that richard wagner never actually wrote "be very quiet, i'm hunting wabbits!"

met elijah today, asked him, say, have you finally read it? he hasn't. boy! i told him, that's ridiculous, i mean, you are the main character; and he said, but, man, i don't have the time, busy with the promotion and stuff, you know, and it's 1800 pages after all. and it's so long-winded... i think i'll just wait for the movie.

they're not taped picking their noses, they're filmed 24/7 in what is essentially a nicer prison and broadcast to all over britain as they pick their noses. and taped.

when all 2304 xeons where finally connected and running, we had 11.2 Tflops and 4.6 TB of RAM on-line and ran linpack; the number was quite impressive. we submitted the story to the news site and bet how long it would take until someone posted "wow! now imagine a beowulf cluster of these!"

write an essay about the question wheter the disadvantages of strong typing can all be eliminated with genericity (as in parameterized types). don't hand it in unless you can provide an answer to the question.

william shatner thinks the french term for 'to the contrary' is spelled 'oh contrare'.