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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Let’s hope the bomber(s) did something stupid like not wear gloves when handling the wires used to build the thing. Or one of the other components like the batteries, which they bought from a Chinese supplier that sells through Amazon, who keeps records.

    Likely it will be some locally generated dim bulb. One can only hope they’ll mention friends who helped over a can of pro-offered Coke. Or someone extracts it with “rubber hose methods” before the police discover said dim bulb.




  • 40 years ago at UCLA, I had to do my FORTRAN programs on punch cards submitted through the batch system. The CS/Math department (no CS department then), only offered 1 section in FORTRAN with 40 others in PASCAL. And it was taught by an Engineering professor. Why would a Chemistry major take a computer science class? Remember all those shiny machines CSI uses to do forensic analysis? They came from chem labs.