Dinner lady in University cafe today:
“You lot are obsessed with caffeine.”
Archive for April, 2011
We Turn it into Theorems
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011Things I Only Understand after a Quarter-Decade of Programming (1)
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011That obscure, meaningless compiler error messages are obscure and meaningless, not deeply meaningful messages meant for a more experienced programmer than me.
Life on the Edge
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011A while ago the campus shop had a suggestions box, and a notice board detailing how they had responded to suggestions. One of our students filled in a slip asking that the shop stock Edge, a popular computer games magazine. A few weeks later the following note appeared on the notice board:
Edge Margarine – we have looked into this and cannot find any details of this brand of margarine.