And Then There Was Spring
Winter forced me to hibernate for a while. There I was, enjoying heavy snowfall and mildly subzero temperatures, and all of a sudden the seasons have changed and those pesky insects are buzzing around my windows again. And boy, is it hot in here — eight degrees Celsius!
I’m forcing myself to write something. There are three reasons for this — first, I’m tired of seeing the same old page on my blog, second, I’m too lazy to change the homepage of my browser so that I don’t, and third, I need to write a long project report and this seemed way more interesting. I think of this as an appetizer.
There was an interesting piece of news that I read about today: Hans Reiser, the guy behind the popular ReiserFS filesystem that you probably haven’t heard of, has been convicted of murdering his wife. Interesting piece of cross-domain gossip.
(Aside: In “ReiserFS filesystem,” the word filesystem is redundant. Isn’t there a technical term describing such usage?)
Anyway, I hoped you noticed the pointless sarcasm at the beginning of this post. Now that the weather is pleasant enough for the average human to cautiously wander out of the house, I’ve done the exact opposite and stayed home to watch episodes of House, M.D. If you don’t know what that is, then you definitely should. And by the way, that was a pun. Laugh.

April 29th, 2008 at 00:32
poor guy… i wonder what will happen to his FS. It’s not really that famous.
April 29th, 2008 at 09:48
I didn’t get the pun
April 29th, 2008 at 10:15
That question came up a long time ago, when the guy was arrested. My guess is that development on ReiserFS will stagnate, and everyone using it will eventually move to other filesystems.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:19
I stayed in my house to watch House!
The lead character is itself modelled on Sherlock Holmes, and the name ‘House’ is a play on the word ‘Holmes.’ That’s another pun for you!
April 30th, 2008 at 04:03
Eureka Eureka! to both jokes!
hahaaa.…
April 30th, 2008 at 21:46
i dont get it.. how is house a play on holmes
/me feels stoopid
May 1st, 2008 at 04:18
Holmes sounds similar to homes.….homes=houses!