On 10/24/05, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
[*] a geek term meaning "doing something in order to do something in order to do something in order to do something." May be ultimately productive or may be a sophisticated form of procrastination. Possibly the greatest feat of yak-shaving in geek history is Don Knuth taking several years off "The Art Of Computer Programming" to invent TeX. His book needed better typesetting, you see, so he wrote a typesetting system ...
Mmm, did those guys ever get their spacewars game running on a PDP7? I heard they decided to write an operating system...