University of Manitoba gives its 47-year-old mainframe a New Orleans-style sendoff, complete with rhyming eulogy 
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Sam Jones
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I'm a software developer working in the NoVA-Baltimore area. I'm also a husband, Catholic, futurist, linguist, gamer, musician, political scientist and philosopher.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Planned books:
None
Current books:
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Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
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Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
Recent books:
- Medieval Sieges by Geoffrey Hindley
- Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling
- The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
- Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future by Cory Doctorow
- Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic by David B. Currie
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why did i marry you?