Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.

[mrrmot@oldbytes.space]

@steve @shriramk ...and then proves that the problem is intractable by its nature; the proof attracts more attention, thereby expanding the field and leading to newly-possible conclusions.

[wehpudicabok@kind.social]

@steve @shriramk hey, i'd watch that

[0x0ddc0ffee@infosec.exchange]

@shriramk Somehow, I've ended-up with five copies of that book,

[jordan@sometimes.social]

@shriramk those women were strange, it made me quit bartending

[smurthys@hachyderm.io]

@shriramk Nice title for a romcom love triangle.

[shriramk@mastodon.social]

@0x0ddc0ffee Bravissimo! That rocks. Excellent choice.

I have only one. There was one copy for sale in Bangalore (US edition, so ridiculously expensive by Indian standards). So I went and won a trivia contest whose prize money covered its cost. So I'm not about to forget I own it.

My copy still says "$14.11 Rs. 237/70" on the front page ("Rs." = INR). I guess the exchange ratio was 16.8 at the time. Now it's 91.6…

[elithebearded@fed.qaz.red]

@shriramk

Color me intrigued.
And repulsed.

The color shapes interlock and are the same but mirrored

[0x0ddc0ffee@infosec.exchange]

@shriramk One was in a dusty corner of a little used book shop that somehow survives to this day, a block from the campus of the University of Washington. Another was presented to me by a mentor after I finished The Little Schemer, along with a pink paperback edition of George Polya's _How to Solve It_, and a well-worn copy of _The Annotated Alice_ containing a bookmark from the same used bookstore. Another two, both 25th anniversary editions, were regifted to me on the grounds that I'm "one of those Lisp people.", nearly a decade apart. The fifth, I have no recollection, at all. I've been meaning to find new homes for at least 3 of them. My first copy is falling apart, and I'd to keep the one given to me by my mentor.

[cptsuperlative@toot.cat]

@mrrmot

But who’s in it? We need casting!

@steve @shriramk

[mattsheffield@mastodon.social]

@shriramk Johann Sebastian Bachelorette

[tealeg@mastodon.online]

@shriramk *SPOILERS* in the end, the tortoise gets the girl. (Cut to a devistated Achilles)

[gwozniak@discuss.systems]

@shriramk It's the party that keeps coming back to itself.

[hyperzonk@tech.lgbt]

@shriramk It's the ultimate irony that what some people are touting as AI doesn't know that title. Or maybe the self-reference was too much for it.