Joe Auricchio

It tastes like the word ‘diet’ in diet soda.

Rushi: I’d say everything south of Santa Barbara is L.A.

Ben: Is Bakersfield south of L.A?

Rushi: Nah, that’s Nevada.

And 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.

Watching 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: Yeah, this guy’s nickname that he came up with was ‘Roogle’

Joe: Was this before Google?

Ben: Nothing was before Google. Idiot.

Ben: Joe and I are both terrible bartenders for completely different reasons. Joe can’t make a decision, and I make the wrong decision.

Ben: What’s wrong with quesadillas in the microwave? I survived on that for like seventeen years.

Rushi: Yeah, and you’re still white!

I 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?

Ben: Do I look like I want to eat anything right now?

Scott: Feeling a little under the weather?

Ben: Feeling a little under the gyroscope!

Joe: What are you looking for?

Eric: Words. I’m finding lots of them, in succession!