Aaron sends a link to the Dr. Fun comic about Donald Knuth that he mentioned last night.
Joe Mahoney on the Python talk:
Also, "Newsbruiser! Who ate all the pies?" works in the theme song [Naturally! -ed.] Brendan on same:
And on bags of holding:
Thu Dec 19 2002 23:24 Reader Response Roundup:
How about giving a talk on how you've gone about implementing all the
different items on that weblog software checklist. The title could be
"Treating Feature-itis with Python"
How about just a talk on maintaining your own open-source software as a
one-person team? Plenty of people do it, sure, but not many I've seen
have the design consistency or version control of NewsBruiser.
You're right about the lame prohibition, in a way--according to the 3rd
ed DMG, living things can be placed in the bag, but suffocate after ten
minutes. There wasn't anything in the 2nd ed DMG or Unearthed Arcana,
though, so it obviously took a while to think up. Maybe the bag is
made of astral elastic, so it's always just the right size for the sum
of its contents, and air just gets squished out. Or maybe it's a
linked list.
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