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This reminded me of Adobe's burrito ordering program (http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/marthag/postscript/burritos http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/mart

This reminded me of Adobe's burrito ordering program (http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/marthag/postscript/burritos http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/marthag/postscript/burr...). > Tired of standing in line at La Costena? This file documents an automatic facility for sending a fax to La Costena that orders 1 or more burritos, quesadillas, tacos, and whatever. The command will compose the fax, and send it to your favorite PostScript fax printer, for direct transmission to La Costena, and no paper at this end will be generated. Then, when you get there, your food will be waiting. No worries.

DonHopkins 7y ago
I love La Costeña! I posted these about it earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12478422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12478422 DonHopkins on Sept 12, 2016 | parent | favorite | on: Dynamic Programming: The Name (1984) The story I heard was that Adobe's Type 1 font encoding [1] used obscure names like BlueValues, OtherBlues, FamilyBlues, FamilyOtherBlues, BlueScale, BlueShift, and BlueFuzz, so that Adobe employees could discuss their proprietary font hinting algorithms in public while they were in line for burritos at La Costeña [2]. That way nobody from Apple or Sun or SGI who was standing in line next to them could understand what they were talking about. Yes THAT World Famous La Costeña: Guiness Record Holder for the World's Largest Burrito! [3] On May 3rd, 1997 La Costeña of Mountain View, California created the world's largest burrito. The burrito weighed in at 4,456.3 pounds and was measured at 3,578 feet long. It was created at Rengstorff Park in Mountain View. [1] https://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/T1_SPEC.PDF https://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/T1_SPEC.... [2] http://www.costena.com http://www.costena.com [3] http://www.costena.com/famous.html http://www.costena.com/famous.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20852875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20852875 DonHopkins 7 months ago | parent | favorite | on: Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisiona... How huge could a "One-Burrito" Team possibly be? http://www.costena.com/famous.html http://www.costena.com/famous.html On May 3rd, 1997 La Costeña of Mountain View, California created the world's largest burrito. The burrito weighed in at 4,456.3 pounds and was measured at 3,578 feet long. It was created at Rengstorff Park in Mountain View. (So big they had to photograph it from an airplane!) http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/2006041120363213 http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/200604112036... https://twitter.com/xardox/status/997942006872764416 https://twitter.com/xardox/status/997942006872764416 xardox @xardox I finally found the whole story behind the World's Largest Burrito that La Costeña made in Rengstorff Park in 1997! 4453.3 pounds, 3578 feet long!!! Also set that day was the world record for largest number of porta-potties filled. http://supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/2006041120363213 http://supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/2006041120363213 "Despite the hearty appetites of everyone involved, a substantial amount of food was left over. Soon people were filling enormous paper boxes with foot-long lengths destined for the freezer. A couple groups carried six-foot lengths like fire hoses to waiting pickup trucks."

DonHopkins 7y ago

I love La Costeña! I posted these about it earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12478422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12478422 DonHopkins on Sept 12, 2016 | parent | favorite | on: Dynamic Programming: The Name (1984) The story I heard was that Adobe's Type 1 font encoding [1] used obscure names like BlueValues, OtherBlues, FamilyBlues, FamilyOtherBlues, BlueScale, BlueShift, and BlueFuzz, so that Adobe employees could discuss their proprietary font hinting algorithms in public while they were in line for burritos at La Costeña [2]. That way nobody from Apple or Sun or SGI who was standing in line next to them could understand what they were talking about. Yes THAT World Famous La Costeña: Guiness Record Holder for the World's Largest Burrito! [3] On May 3rd, 1997 La Costeña of Mountain View, California created the world's largest burrito. The burrito weighed in at 4,456.3 pounds and was measured at 3,578 feet long. It was created at Rengstorff Park in Mountain View. [1] https://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/T1_SPEC.PDF https://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/T1_SPEC.... [2] http://www.costena.com http://www.costena.com [3] http://www.costena.com/famous.html http://www.costena.com/famous.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20852875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20852875 DonHopkins 7 months ago | parent | favorite | on: Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisiona... How huge could a "One-Burrito" Team possibly be? http://www.costena.com/famous.html http://www.costena.com/famous.html On May 3rd, 1997 La Costeña of Mountain View, California created the world's largest burrito. The burrito weighed in at 4,456.3 pounds and was measured at 3,578 feet long. It was created at Rengstorff Park in Mountain View. (So big they had to photograph it from an airplane!) http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/2006041120363213 http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/200604112036... https://twitter.com/xardox/status/997942006872764416 https://twitter.com/xardox/status/997942006872764416 xardox @xardox I finally found the whole story behind the World's Largest Burrito that La Costeña made in Rengstorff Park in 1997! 4453.3 pounds, 3578 feet long!!! Also set that day was the world record for largest number of porta-potties filled. http://supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/2006041120363213 http://supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/2006041120363213 "Despite the hearty appetites of everyone involved, a substantial amount of food was left over. Soon people were filling enormous paper boxes with foot-long lengths destined for the freezer. A couple groups carried six-foot lengths like fire hoses to waiting pickup trucks."