Actually, I thing the

is quite similar to that required to successfully create a proof in mathematics. Both mathematical proofs and computer programs can be either hack jobs or works of elegance, or anywhere in between. I think it's safe to say that my efforts in both areas tend toward the former.

As the holder of a (36 year old) BS in mathematics, I believe I was the only person in my programming class to go over my allotted time on the university mainframe. Clearly I excelled at programming infinite loops.

Dude, you forgot to mention our weather. It's very nice today (25C), but it can get a bit on the cool side (-32C) come winter.

I recommend Lubuntu (but if you all the apps you need will run on it)

A colleague of mine once tried to teach several of us Forth. And Prolog. Why did he do it? Because they interested him. Why did we do it? Because it interested us.

I'm not a shill - the closest thing to a tech corp that I've ever worked for was a one-person consultancy that needed an extra semi-competent warm body. However, I have done a bit of Java programming. And I have a gmail account.

Didn't RTFA, but I did read the summary, and it's a bit ironic. The reason I bought my first computer (an Apple ][+ system) was because I wanted everything on a computer that I controlled. And I still wonder if using a cloud-based email service (gmail) is a smart thing to do.

I'm using FF-14.0.1 on Fedora Rawhide, and, after a bit of (annoying but necessary) tweaking, it looks pretty much like FF has looked for quite a while.

Why carry around log tables when you've got a slide rule? Doesn't your slide rule have an L scale?

Moses wasn't Christian. The patent belongs to the Jews and Muslims (Abraham licensed it to both of his sons)

It's not that bad. There are only 100 senators.

No buzzwordifiers were used to create that statement. It's actually quite straight-forward and descriptive. What surprises me is that new minerals are still being discovered in the Allende meteroite, given how much its been studied over the last 40+ years.

I don't think my parents' first two TVs even had UHF receivers. The portable they bought for my grandmother when she came to live with us was similar to FudRucker's father's TV (one knob for VHF, another for UHF), but, whereas the VHF knob had click stops for each channel, the UHF knob did not.

My second grade teacher convinced me I could do algebra using essentially this example:
. Teacher: How much is 1+1?
Class: 2
Teacher: if 1+x = 2, what's x?
Class: 1
Teacher: You're doing algebra.
I was convinced. It wasn't until I hit my undergraduate group theory class that I started thinking maybe I can't really do algebra (but I repeated the class, group theory, that is, and convinced myself I really could do it)