Saturday, October 20, 2007

SAVE

Funny story:

Conway wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE. The name SAVE was not an acronym, but a feature: programmers lost fewer card decks because they all had SAVE written on them.

Friday, October 19, 2007

Liberty Cabbage

I'm slowly making my way through my high school U.S. history book.
It turns out that our modern "Freedom Fries" have an even more ridiculous
precursor. During WWI, we were calling sauerkraut "Liberty Cabbage".

zone

In emacs, try



(require 'zone)
(setq zone-idle 120)

(setq zone-programs '(zone-pgm-whack-chars
zone-pgm-five-oclock-swan-dive
zone-pgm-martini-swan-dive
zone-pgm-drip
zone-pgm-drip-fretfully
))

(zone-when-idle zone-idle)


These are hilarious. Especially the drip-fretfully.