On 10/24/05, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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...