[WikiEN-l] The twitch-game joy of vandal-fighting

[David Gerard]

Tony Sidaway wrote:
>On 10/24/05, David Gerard <dgerard at 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...


*splutter* You win.


- d.