For scsh release 0.6.7
Olin Shivers, Brian D. Carlstrom, Martin Gasbichler, and Mike Sperber
Acknowledgements
Who should I thank?
My so-called “colleagues,” who laugh at me behind my back,
all the while becoming famous on my work?
My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to
be limited to downloading bitmaps off of netnews?
My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit “fooling around with
computers,” go to med school, and become a radiologist?
My department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into
and sympathy for disgruntled postal workers?
My God, no one could blame me — no one! — if I went off the edge and just
lost it completely one day.
I couldn’t get through the day as it is without the Prozac and Jack Daniels
I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS manuals.
I start getting the shakes real bad around 10am, right before my
advisor meetings. A 10 oz. Jack ‘n Zac helps me get through the
meetings without one of my students winding up with his severed head
in a bowling-ball bag. They look at me funny; they think I twitch a
lot. I’m not twitching. I’m controlling my impulse to snag my 9mm
Sig-Sauer out from my day-pack and make a few strong points about
the quality of undergraduate education in Amerika.
If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this,
I’d probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible
moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly
what I think.
Oh, yes, the acknowledgements.
I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.
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