Thursday, March 30th, 2006
ACM has named Peter Naur the winner of the 2005 A. M. Turing Award, in recognition of his pioneering work on defining the Algol 60 programming language, and his contributions to compiler design. Algol 60 is the model for many later programming languages, including those that are indispensable software engineering tools today. The Turing Award, considered the “Nobel Prize of Computing” was first awarded in 1966, and is named for British mathematician Alan M. Turing.
Monday, March 27th, 2006
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
Monday, March 27th, 2006
“Ms. Nora Digger Dinsmoor: She’ll only break your heart, it’s a fact. And even though I warn you, even though I guarantee you that the girl will only hurt you terribly, you’ll still pursue her.”
Saturday, March 25th, 2006
I finally bought my ticket 
Friday, March 24th, 2006
“Love is the mystery between two people , not the identity. ”
John Fowles
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
100 PRISONERS AND A LIGHT BULB
100 prisoners are imprisoned in solitary cells. Each cell is windowless and soundproof. There’s a central living room with one light bulb; the bulb is initially off. No prisoner can see the light bulb from his or her own cell. Each day, the warden picks a prisoner equally at random, and that prisoner visits the central living room; at the end of the day the prisoner is returned to his cell. While in the living room, the prisoner can toggle the bulb if he or she wishes. Also, the prisoner has the option of asserting the claim that all 100 prisoners have been to the living room. If this assertion is false (that is, some prisoners still haven’t been to the living room), all 100 prisoners will be shot for their stupidity. However, if it is indeed true, all prisoners are set free and inducted into MENSA, since the world can always use more smart people. Thus, the assertion should only be made if the prisoner is 100% certain of its validity.
Before this whole procedure begins, the prisoners are allowed to get together in the courtyard to discuss a plan. What is the optimal plan they can agree on, so that eventually, someone will make a correct assertion?
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Forrest Gump: I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floatin’ around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it’s both, maybe both happening at the same time.
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
for the rest of the people 
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years
Every man’s memory is his private literature. ~Aldous Huxley
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ~J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922
Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
~T.S. Eliot
To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
~Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground
