Quote from The Slow Winter >> Unfortunately for John, the branches made a pact with Satan and quantum mechanics during a midnight screening of "Weekend at Bern

Quote from The Slow Winter >> Unfortunately for John, the branches made a pact with Satan and quantum mechanics during a midnight screening of "Weekend at Bernie’s II." In exchange for their last remaining bits of entropy, the branches cast evil spells on future generations of processors. Those evil spells had names like "scaling induced voltage leaks" and "increasing levels of waste heat" and "Pauly Shore, who is only loosely connected to computer architecture, but who will continue to produce a new movie every three years until he sublimates into an empty bag of Cheetos and a pair of those running shoes that have individual toes and that make you look like you received a foot transplant from a Hobbit, Sasquatch, or an infertile Hobbit/Sasquatch hybrid." Once again, I digress. The point is that the branches, those vanquished foes from long ago, would have the last laugh.<< This guy is going for the HST approach. Funny but opaque as well.