Accumulated on various scraps of paper, which apparently is my brain's preferred mode of operation.
D: "I'm not just a talking head for delivering CS and sarcasm."
D (during a lecture): "What do we know --- he asks rhetorically --- about the properties of cosine?"
A cool note that I'd never thought of, from D: "Testing only tells you if bugs are there. It can't guarantee that bugs are not there."
"We expect furniture to migrate... quite a bit, in my experience."
Grocery checkout clerk: "What's your maximum carry weight? ... are you shopping for an army?"
Me: It took 5 weeks, but we've run out of symbols. How do you feel about the Greek alphabet? Hebrew?
Student: Hmm.
Me: I sometimes use hieroglyphics. Stork times alpha!
Student: That's awful.
(conclusion: we used Greek, plenty of letters there)
This post's theme word is besom (n), "a bundle of twigs attached to a handle and used as a broom." The marketing department recommends that flying besoms be replaced by modern flying broomsticks.
