Haikus:


We read old papers,
Since they are yet to become,
Burdened with big hacks.
    --Thomas Robinson


Therac twenty five
Your concurrency problem
Is the death of me
    --Nima Veiseh


yes, Ethernet bus,
we will wait one RTT.
collision thwarted!
    --Tony Hwang


Frans on a mission
Hammer home the day's buzz word
Authentication
    --Aditya Rathnam


Google's MapReduce
makes the inverted index.
I'm feeling lucky.
    --Melinda Tang


With his "cute" program,
Thompson outwitted us all.
Damn buggy login.
    --Melinda Tang


Limericks from Melinda Tang:


Oh, those MIT nerds with their hacks,
they learned 'bout buffer overrun attacks.
a C-program they coded,
onto the server it loaded,
And then this morning they smashed my stack.


Butler Lampson gave hints on design,
like "Get it right", "Do one thing at a time",
"Use brute force when in doubt",
"Plan to throw the first out",
and "Go read Hamlet, you uncultured swine!"


On much of the 033 test
I thought the answer "true" would be best.
But who was I kidding?
Never trust your gut feeling.
I would've done better if I'd simply just guessed.