Research Computer Scientist. High performance computing, Communications, SHMEM these days. Ex Xerox PARC, Digital, Open Market, SiCortex, etc.

Joined November 2009
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May 5
According to the 22nd Amendment, no one can be elected to the presidency more than twice. Our Leader says he won the 2016 and 2020 elections. Therefore he was improperly elected in 2024.
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Feb 28
Chekhov's Carrier Strike Group
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Jan 26
As infrastructure goes, data centers are pretty innocuous. However, they should pay the entire marginal cost for power, and not unload expenses on other consumers.
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Jan 16
#VerizonOutage How about the big players arrange to let phones connect to other networks when they go down? This should be automatic.
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Jan 10
Sometimes I open the Princeton Ecyclopedia of Mathematics to a random page: A topological space is a space which has a notion of open sets which are closed under unions and finite numbers of intersections.
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22 Dec 2025
How about a special prosecutor from each party. Each gets all the files, and whatever either of them doesn't redact is released. No one trusts DOJ.
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4 Nov 2025
How about all federal taxes be collected by states, who can use the money locally when the feds shut down?
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26 Oct 2025
Annoying things about Quora: when you get questions that are obviously AI derived from your own previous answers.
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23 Oct 2025
My new plan is to look at tool porn every morning, so that all my advertising for the day will also be tool porn. Maybe some microwave directional couplers as well.
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8 Oct 2025
When you call my house, you give your name and say with whom you wish to speak. Otherwise I will hang up.
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3 Oct 2025
Dear corporate email senders: please put the important stuff at the top. I hate having to scroll to see what the message is even about.
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5 Sep 2025
XKCD on the cursed number: xkcd.com/3137/ This has a long history, going back at least to a New Yorker article in 1982: newyorker.com/magazine/1982/…
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30 Jul 2025
You know what would be a great addition to USPS Informed Delivery? The ability to delete items so they are not even delivered.
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19 Jun 2025
Why does Apple Books require extra authentication to "purchase" a free book?
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22 May 2025
The other Ivies should open virtual satellite campuses in Cambridge, and accept all the international students and subcontract the instruction or hire all the Harvard faculty as adjuncts for $1/year. Be funny if Penn did this, just saying.
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11 May 2025
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25 Apr 2025
Cancelled WaPo and subscribed to The Atlantic.
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8 Mar 2025
Maybe there should be an anti-peace prize
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19 Feb 2025
Zelensky's polls are substantially higher than Trump's.
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