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JACK AND THE BEANSTACK by Mark Isaak Long ago, in a finite state far away, there lived a JOVIAL character named Jack. Jack and his relations were poor. Often their hash table was bare. One day Jack's parent said to him, "Our matrices are sparse. You must go to the market to exchange our RAM for some BASICs." She compiled a linked list of items to retrieve and passed it to him. So Jack set out. But as he was walking along a Hamilton path, he met the traveling salesman. "Whither dost thy flow chart take thou?" prompted the salesman in high-level language. "I'm going to the market to exchange this RAM for some chips and Apples," commented Jack. "I have a much better algorithm. You needn't join a queue there; I will swap your RAM for these magic kernels now." Jack made the trade, then backtracked to his house. But when he told his busy-waiting parent of the deal, she became so angry she started thrashing. "Don't you even have any artificial intelligence? All these kernels together hardly make up one byte," and she popped them out the window...

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Synchronized Reviewing

It’s not yet an Olympic event, but at least it’s open to both men and women. (Having said that, I have no idea who’s participating, so that last claim may not be independently verifiable.)

So here, on the designated day, is my booknote on Matthew Hughes’ Template.

Posted on 11-May-200808-Jun-2008Categories SF & FandomTags book review, Matthew Hughes, synchronized reviewing, TemplateLeave a comment on Synchronized Reviewing
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