* * * Hanging Out With a Bunch of Grad Students * * *
Of course, the first thing we'd do is go to the bar
The bev-bot sizes you up and begins mixing a drink:
8 parts Jaegermeister
2 parts Bourbon
7 parts Head-Poured Lemon Juice
Then we'd start talking about what we were doing. They would
say things like:
Looking for volunteers for our latest study:
Calculation of Practical Parallel Data Compression Critical Limiting Factors in a One Hundred Percent Bogus Atmosphere
at least until old
Drinks-Seven-Black-Russians
would walk in. And then we would all say
Thou impertinent hedge-born bladder
and by that time, either one of us would pass out shortly after mumbling
I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I AM DOING HERE
or we'd end up telling bad jokes like:
What's the difference between a oscilloscope and a transistor?