"Pretend you are seven years old and don't care much about floating-point arithmetic..." I write @TwoBitHistory.

Joined December 2011
Replying to @MassRMV
@MassRMV I'm trying to figure out what happened to the title I was supposed to get in the mail last September. I tried to sort this out via the web form on the RMV site but was told I need to call instead. I've tried four times but can never reach a human being. Can you help?
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At last, after long four years, the horror and confusion of 2016 has been fully processed by our culture, revealing the ultimate truth about what it all meant:
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Replying to @nailhauling
Not sure my laptop can handle it, but here we go
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Did NOT know this is a problem one can have
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I love this mural in my grad school’s CS dept so much. Never has any artwork so powerfully induced in me the feeling of “wow, same”
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Confirm shaming has always been with us longer than you think
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Replying to @dartmouth
@dartmouth I run a blog about computing history. Long-shot question, but any chance the document about John Kemeny that appears at 3:10 in this Dartmouth YouTube video is available anywhere? youtu.be/WYPNjSoDrqw?t=3m10s
@SofarNYC you guys are the absolute wooooorst