Walter Wallis, a master of his craft.

Bad code becomes a liability after 6 months. Good code after 6.5.

This video, plus this comment, always makes me smile:

Nice to see the art of reasoned argument is still alive.

P.S.: I have this one printed on some of my archive binders, just in case someone has never witnessed such a work of art on the editor wars. Also, there is evil-mode.

The search for an ideal keyboard/setup is a common quest that Emacs hackers face at some point. Some time ago, in a terminal far, far away, jwz shared some fun results for searching finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it. Since then, this motif has been one of my favorites gems from his hostname—along with all the retro-computing, Emacs, music, movies, and Tron parties of course. These are some setups that I liked the most from his gatherings in the last years:

A personal contribution to the thread:

I also felt compelled to mention Yanni. I think we can call it… the Emacs feeling.

C-3PO take on the dark arts of recursion.

The '80s… Black Sabbath on the speakers, Heavy Metal on the big screen.

Summer of 1981. I was 11 years old and my mom wouldn't let me watch it. So I told her I wanted to see another movie that was playing at the same time. She dropped me off for the mantinee. I paid for Superman 2 and walked into Heavy Metal. I was blown away and the only kid in my neighborhood who got to see it!!