mostly, I just liked the title...

[alexr_rwx]

The Rudnick is switching into Social Sciences Researcher Mode again. Mostly because he's been reading Marty's copy of Sex/Machine, which is this big collection of cultural studies essays about gender/technology interactions...

Not that you guys are any sort of representative sample, but... could you comment up some responses? I'm curious:

- Does your computer have a name?
- Do you tend to anthropomorphize your computer?
- Do you normally name and/or anthropomorphize your things?

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On a completely unrelated note....

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

This provides a great deal of amusement. You should peruse the 2003 and 2002 contest winners when you have a chance, for lots of time-wasting laughter. I'm particularly fond of the "Vile pun" awards section. Also you should enter something next year... I can't help but have my imagination tugged back to when you were writing an odd little short story during some CS clss (2340?) about some mad professor reading his books when he had a revalation but the pizza guy came so he folded the note up and put it in his pocket and... er, yeah, so forth and so on. I bet you could come up with a highly amusing little entry for this contest ^_^

~Lisa lisa

Re: On a completely unrelated note....

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... Five hundred years ago, a Portuguese vessel sailing to the remote island of Jakarta had wrecked. Its cargo contained several hundred copies of K&R, embedded in gemstones. Professor Make blinked exactly twice and then ran, borscht in hand, directly to the airport.

*laughs* That particular bit of fiction was the README for our boulderdash project for Practicum... we were writing a game, so it had to have a background story. Surprised you remember that...

Thanks muchly for the link :) :)

Re: On a completely unrelated note....

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er, and by "our", I mean "Marty's and mine" -- because Marty's a coding beast, and he deserves recognition for his massively l337 5k|llX0rZ.