Joe Auricchio

Professor Varghese: So where in the networking stack do you think most data gets dropped?

Rushi: Level 3

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

Ben: Is Bakersfield south of L.A?

Rushi: Nah, that’s Nevada.

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

Rushi: Yeah, and you’re still white!

Concerning an acquaintance whom we’ll call Steve, because that’s not his name.

Come on, don’t be a Steve-hater. It’s not his fault he’s terrible.

Just put ’spatial locality’ for all of it, and you’ll get half of them right.

Like, you tell it, ‘I like cheese,’ and you ask it, ‘What kind of cheese should I get?’ And it tells you ‘Gouda sounds good today.’

Rushi on Prolog and dairy products

<ben> Write it out in pseudo-C, then test it.
<rushi> Pseudo-Ruby.
<ben> What the hell is pseudo-Ruby? English?!
<rushi> Ruby.

<rushi> the long-term health risks of alcohol: cirrhosis of the liver.
<rushi> the long-term health risks of smoking: you name it.
<rushi> in fact, i bet you can get cirrhosis from smoking.

As it turns out, you can.

So Rushi inadvertently invited like ten of our mutual friends (Lizzie, Mignon, Dan, Elvia, Paul, Kyle, Rego, Mark, Nik, and Sheenika) into an AIM chat. Most of them only knew a few of the others.

Notice I said “inadvertently”, not “accidentally”.

One of these days, Rushi…

<joe> So I think I'm going to name my computers after Chinese & Japanese dynasties.
<paul> Dang. That's pretty esoteric.
<rushi> Is that one of them?