January 13, 2008
Mr. XKCD [vid] gives a talk @Google. Impromptu (which shows, a bit) but funny... And what a crowd! Guest appearances by Guido van Rossum (author of Python) and Donald Knuth (father of Computer Science, author of TeΧ and The Art of Computer Programming). </geek>
Awesome. Hey...if any of you want to come to ROFLCon with me, you are more than welcome to stay at my place.
I hope you will be liveblogging it from your microtop.
Also: I think the 'girl in the pink killers shirt' person should go.
Turns out one of Donald Knuth's first publications was, no kidding, in Mad Magazine. He proposed a measuring system based on the thickness of a Mad Magazine (1 potrzebie), with corresponding units of mass, volume etc.. (Note the last set of links: some clever fan added them as units to google's 'convert' functionality).
He reminds me of so many people!
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Wow, good backstories here.
posted by mrflip at 07:56AM CST on January 13