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I moved to the other side of the world 8,000miles / 13,000km away. So I go into the public library and pick up a MAD Magazine one morning, and there in the let
by PostOnce 3y ago
I moved to the other side of the world 8,000miles / 13,000km away.
So I go into the public library and pick up a MAD Magazine one morning, and there in the letters section is my old GP from back home, writing in that he's been reading MAD since he was a kid.
Small world.
- bombcar 3y agoDonald Knuth’s first published work was published in Mad Magazine - https://silezukuk.tumblr.com/post/616657913 https://silezukuk.tumblr.com/post/616657913 He lists it as his first published paper: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/vita.pdf https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/vita.pdf So the arguably most reknown computer scientist of all time got his start in Mad Magazine.
- redshirtrob 3y agoHere's a fun fact: There's a typo in his article [0]. I only learned about the typo when I asked him to sign my copy at a Christmas Tree lecture years ago. Instead of signing it, he corrected the typo. He had a mnemonic he used to remember the digits in a Potrzebie. He had the mnemonic stored on a file on his home machine. I watched him ssh to the machine, then fire up Emacs to look up the mnemonic. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie
- euroderf 3y agoWasn't "gzorp" a Mad-ism too ? And no doubt forgetting many others...
- flyinghamster 3y agoThat could be Don Martin - he was the sound effects king. sklork