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Archive for the ‘Quoting’ Category
Requiring the Impossible
Sunday, August 26th, 2007Ben on corporate officers
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007Joe: So he’s a C something O?
Ben: He’s a ‘See, I have a lot of money.’ ‘Oh!!!’
Ben on tonic
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007It tastes like the word ‘diet’ in diet soda.
Rushi on SoCal
Sunday, June 10th, 2007Rushi: I’d say everything south of Santa Barbara is L.A.
Ben: Is Bakersfield south of L.A?
Rushi: Nah, that’s Nevada.
Professor Savage on password selection
Thursday, April 19th, 2007And people like picking their PIN, because it’s usually something like a word that’s important to them, or the date of their cat, or something.
Ben on gritty British crime dramas OR, computer architecture
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Watching Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
This is why in-order execution is important.
This is probably the most obscurely geeky quote ever to hit my blog.
Ben on history
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007Ben: Yeah, this guy’s nickname that he came up with was ‘Roogle’
Joe: Was this before Google?
Ben: Nothing was before Google. Idiot.
Ben on mixology
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007Ben: Joe and I are both terrible bartenders for completely different reasons. Joe can’t make a decision, and I make the wrong decision.
Rushi on unauthentic Mexican cuisine
Sunday, February 4th, 2007Ben: What’s wrong with quesadillas in the microwave? I survived on that for like seventeen years.
Rushi: Yeah, and you’re still white!
Baden on storage space
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007I love visceral examples of how far computer technology has come. My Compilers professor Scott Baden, on the first computer he used in college:
We had a computer that had 16 K of memory. That was it. And… 6 megabyte disks. Now my camera takes 6 megabyte pictures.
What used to be larger than a washing machine is now of no consequence. In the course of an afternoon we can create vastly more data than machine rooms could hold even a few decades ago. Do we ever stop and give thought to how much data we truly create?