Archive for January, 2008

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GCC == Green Cheek Conure

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

While Googling around for the phrase “gcc thread sleep” to get started on my distributed operating system project I discovered that bird lovers also love their acronyms! I thought it was kind of funny.

Cuddly Green Cheek Conure

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Macs are Better

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Nah, I’m kidding. I just think this mentality is hilarious. I was sitting in class this morning and one of my classmates stated that he could not open the slides that had been posted. After being asked for clarification, he replied in an ignorantly haughty tone of voice:

I have a Mac, and I don’t use Microsoft Office.

Luckily, a more astute Mac user from the back of the room ruefully replied:

OpenOffice.Org!