Don't forget "answered a rhetorical question".

1) Set up a plane to Puntas Arenas, Chile. 2) Coordinate with group of other crazy people to fly to Antarctica 3) Bring LOTS of warm clothing. 4) To run, be very careful. Mostly shuffling. 5) Find big ice sheets to run on

- Travis (the guy running the marathons)

Or she knew that the term "average" can just as validly refer to the mode as the mean, and was bored by the whole exercise.

Sure, it's completely fair. We all reinvent the wheel sometimes.

That hilarious part is that this paper was published in a peer-reviewed journal---and none of the reviewers realized that he'd rediscovered some 17th century math.

So in 2010 Zed has written his own web server which runs his new framework he wrote for the new webapp he wrote.

What did you do this year?

Ah, yes.

I remember once casually joking at a get together, Someone needs to tell ESR that he's not God's gift to women. When everyone was done laughing, it turned out that both women present at the table had actually been propositioned by ESR. (And had turned him down.)

A small minority of men cause the vast majority of the problem. Unfortunately it doesn't take many to create a real problem.