I remembered a very funny incident sometime ago when I saw Jim Blinn's name in the title. I had traveled to the US to enable a SoC GPU for a client in Californ

I remembered a very funny incident sometime ago when I saw Jim Blinn's name in the title. I had traveled to the US to enable a SoC GPU for a client in California. In my home country, India, good computer science books were a luxury then. So when in the US, I took an opportunity to buy some computer graphics books. Jim Blinn's excellent books were on my list. One of the books was the "Dirty Pixels". During lunch time, I visited a local Barnes and Noble shop to see if I could get the books. I went to the help-desk at the book shop. At the counter there was a young girl, and I enquired about the book "Dirty Pixels". The girl without saying a word immediately went away. I thought she might have gone to check if they have the book in stock. But she returned back with a male colleague. And the guy looked at me in a suspicious way and asked, "Yes, how can we help?". I said, I am looking for a book titled "Dirty Pixels". He gave me a look, and turned to the computer on the desk, typed something and asked, "What is the author's name?". I said, Jim Blinn. He typed something on the computer, and said "There is no such author!" Again giving me a suspicious look. Now realising what might be happening, I said the book is of computer graphics; and the author's name is Jim Blinn with double 'n'. The guy typed in something on the computer again, then smiled and said, "Oh! Computer Graphics! We don't have that book in store." :)