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		<title>Dank at 01:26, 4 August 2024</title>
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		<title>Dank: Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;&#039;dankblog! 2024-07-02, 0615 EDT, at the danktower&#039;&#039;&#039;  largely due to this wiki, i receive mails from random people more often than one might otherwise expect. i always attempt to answer, though not always usefully, nor with necessarily the most friendly tone. this evening i opened Mutt to the short missive:  &lt;pre&gt; Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 22:16:09 -0700...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;a href=&quot;/dankwiki/index.php?title=Dankblog&quot; title=&quot;Dankblog&quot;&gt;dankblog!&lt;/a&gt; 2024-07-02, 0615 EDT, at &lt;a href=&quot;/dankwiki/index.php?title=Viewpoint&quot; title=&quot;Viewpoint&quot;&gt;the danktower&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;  largely due to this wiki, i receive mails from random people more often than one might otherwise expect. i always attempt to answer, though not always usefully, nor with necessarily the most friendly tone. this evening i opened &lt;a href=&quot;/dankwiki/index.php?title=Mutt&quot; title=&quot;Mutt&quot;&gt;Mutt&lt;/a&gt; to the short missive:  &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 22:16:09 -0700...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Dankblog|dankblog!]] 2024-07-02, 0615 EDT, at [[Viewpoint|the danktower]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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largely due to this wiki, i receive mails from random people more often than one might otherwise expect. i always attempt to answer, though not always usefully, nor with necessarily the most friendly tone. this evening i opened [[Mutt]] to the short missive:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 22:16:09 -0700                                                                                                &lt;br /&gt;
From: *********** Gao &amp;lt;****************@ucsd.edu&amp;gt;                                                                                                      &lt;br /&gt;
To: &amp;quot;nickblack@linux.com&amp;quot; &amp;lt;nickblack@linux.com&amp;gt;                                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;
Subject: Fall 2010                                                                                                                  &lt;br /&gt;
                                                                                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
What happened???       &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
i replied with haste:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 01:35:36 -0400                                                                                                &lt;br /&gt;
From: &amp;quot;nickblack@linux.com&amp;quot; &amp;lt;nickblack@linux.com&amp;gt;                                                                                   &lt;br /&gt;
To: *********** Gao &amp;lt;****************@ucsd.edu&amp;gt;                                                                                                      &lt;br /&gt;
Subject: Re: Fall 2010                                                                                                              &lt;br /&gt;
                                                                                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
****************** Gao left as an exercise for the reader:                                                                                         &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;gt; What happened???                                                                                                                  &lt;br /&gt;
                                                                                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
i shocked international observers by fucking your mother in both                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
china and taiwan! do i know you? apologies if i do.                                                                                 &lt;br /&gt;
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nick black -=- https://nick-black.com                                                                                               &lt;br /&gt;
to make an apple pie from scratch,                                                                                                  &lt;br /&gt;
you need first invent a universe.   &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
i wasn&amp;#039;t sure whether this would prompt a response or not, but the wings of ESMTP beat with alacrity, and almost immediately:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 22:41:27 -0700                                                                                                &lt;br /&gt;
From: *********** Gao &amp;lt;****************@ucsd.edu&amp;gt;                                                                                                      &lt;br /&gt;
To: &amp;quot;nickblack@linux.com&amp;quot; &amp;lt;nickblack@linux.com&amp;gt;                                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;
Subject: Re: Fall 2010                                                                                                              &lt;br /&gt;
                                                                                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
so you&amp;#039;re my deadbeat dad.                                                                                                          &lt;br /&gt;
i&amp;#039;ve come to claim my inheritance.                                                                                                  &lt;br /&gt;
but you can send remittance in the form of guaranteed grant funding after                                                           &lt;br /&gt;
you answer a more important question.                                                                                               &lt;br /&gt;
why your phd plans fell through.                                                                                                                               &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
this seemed a gameful rejoinder; let no one deny that i love my children.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 05:33:57 -0400                                                                                                &lt;br /&gt;
From: &amp;quot;nickblack@linux.com&amp;quot; &amp;lt;nickblack@linux.com&amp;gt;                                                                                   &lt;br /&gt;
To: *********** Gao &amp;lt;****************@ucsd.edu&amp;gt;                                                                                                      &lt;br /&gt;
Subject: Re: Fall 2010                                                                                                              &lt;br /&gt;
                                                                                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
*************** Gao left as an exercise for the reader:                                                                                         &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;gt; so you&amp;#039;re my deadbeat dad.                                                                                                        &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;gt; i&amp;#039;ve come to claim my inheritance.                                                                                                &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;gt; but you can send remittance in the form of guaranteed grant funding after                                                         &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;gt; you answer a more important question.                                                                                             &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;gt; why your phd plans fell through.                                                                                                  &lt;br /&gt;
                                                                                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
oh! combination of factors:                                                                                                         &lt;br /&gt;
                                                                                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
 - i was funding it myself, which i decided was stupid. applying                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
   for fellowships wouldn&amp;#039;t have effect until the next fall.                                                                        &lt;br /&gt;
 - i realized i was uninterested at 30 years of age in being                                                                        &lt;br /&gt;
   treated like a 21 year old by an old tenured prof accustomed                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;
   to slave labor.                                                                                                                  &lt;br /&gt;
 - i realized no job i wanted required a phd.                                                                                       &lt;br /&gt;
 - i dated all the hot girls in the program within two semesters.                                                                   &lt;br /&gt;
 - i have a great appreciation for money, and my money flows                                                                        &lt;br /&gt;
   went into reverse while doing the phd.                                                                                           &lt;br /&gt;
 - i make enough money for my employers that i can show up                                                                          &lt;br /&gt;
   stoned out of my gourd muttering about value                                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;
   rematerialization and congestion control or saying like                                                                                                                &lt;br /&gt;
  WANNA KNOW SOMETHING I LOVE KIDS I REALLY DO. ONE GAVE ME A                                                                       &lt;br /&gt;
  CIGARETTE LAST NIGHT BECAUSE HE WAS AS COOL AS THE TASTE OF A                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;
  MENTHOL IT WAS THIS KILLER MAN VERSUS HOG FIGHT IN CHARLESTON                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;
  AND HIS NAME WAS TOMMY AND I SAID LIKE BOWDEN AND HE GOES LOL                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;
  NO I HAVE NUTS AND A GUN AND THEN HE ASKED FOR EVERYONE&amp;#039;S                                                                         &lt;br /&gt;
  MONEY. WE WERE REALLY COOL UP UNTIL THAT PART BUT THAT&amp;#039;S                                                                          &lt;br /&gt;
  MAN-HOG FIGHTING FOR YOU. HOPE WE CAN HANG AGAIN SOMETIME SOON                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
  TOMMY EXCEPT FOR THE ROBBERY IT WAS REAL CHILL. DON&amp;#039;T EVER                                                                        &lt;br /&gt;
  SMOKE THOUGH. IT&amp;#039;S A TERRIBLE HABIT AND LEADS TO OTHERS OMG DO                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
  I SMELL POPCORN I HAVEN&amp;#039;T EATEN FOR THREE DAYS YOU JUST KIND                                                                      &lt;br /&gt;
  OF FORGET KID SOMETIMES BECAUSE YOU PARTY ROCK AND PARTY ROCK                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;
  AND SOMETIMES YOU PARTY ROCK YOURSELF INTO THE NEXT WEEK AND                                                                      &lt;br /&gt;
  THEN YOU WAKE UP IN SIERRA LEONE AND YOU&amp;#039;RE LIKE &amp;quot;HEY WHERE AM                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
  I&amp;quot; AND SOMEONE&amp;#039;S LIKE &amp;quot;LOL SIERRA LEONE&amp;quot; AND YOU GO &amp;quot;SHE                                                                          &lt;br /&gt;
  SOUNDS PRETTY&amp;quot; BUT SHE&amp;#039;S NOT AND SHE&amp;#039;S FILLED WITH DUDES IN                                                                       &lt;br /&gt;
  WEDDING DRESSES AND AK-47S AND YOU&amp;#039;RE LIKE THIS IS THE WORST                                                                      &lt;br /&gt;
  WEDDING EVER AND SOME CHINESE GUY JUST HANGING OUT I MEAN                                                                         &lt;br /&gt;
  SERIOUSLY WHO HANGS OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF WEST AFRICA                                                                              &lt;br /&gt;
  HELLHOLEISTAN WELL HE JUST WANTS TO TURN YOUR PENIS INTO BONER                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
  POWDER TO SELL TO CHINESE DUDES--                                                                                                 &lt;br /&gt;
  and so long as i don&amp;#039;t run into any executives, they tolerate                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;
  it. this kind of thing didn&amp;#039;t fly in the Experimental                                                                             &lt;br /&gt;
  Computing Hierarchies Lab.                              &lt;br /&gt;
                                                                                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
 - my group partners and advisor knew their field very well, and                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
   not a goddamn thing otherwise. they made me sad.                                                                                 &lt;br /&gt;
 - your mom ended up giving me the degree in exchange for                                                                           &lt;br /&gt;
   penetrating her iron-scented labia of rusted steel and                                                                           &lt;br /&gt;
   shifting her womb three klicks down the yangtze, eventually                                                                      &lt;br /&gt;
   resulting in your birth. she always said i had a PhD, meaning                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
   a pretty huge dick.                                                                                                              &lt;br /&gt;
                                                                                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
hack on, boy! don&amp;#039;t come looking for love or money. prepare for                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;
enumerated insults regarding UCSD:                                                                                                  &lt;br /&gt;
                                                                                                                                    &lt;br /&gt;
 1) who the hell goes to school with Angela Davis?                                                                                  &lt;br /&gt;
 2) your team is the tritons but apparently you are not tritium                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;
 3) your mascot is King Triton, who is greek despite 99.9% of                                                                       &lt;br /&gt;
    your student body being asian                                                                                                   &lt;br /&gt;
 4) you have both &amp;quot;UCSD Navy&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Blue&amp;quot; as colors, wtf                                                                             &lt;br /&gt;
 5) most of your faculty is actually sea lions                                                                                      &lt;br /&gt;
 6) warren bear is clearly homosexual. i have no problem with                                                                       &lt;br /&gt;
    homosexuality but i don&amp;#039;t like it in my bears.                                                                                  &lt;br /&gt;
 7) you stopped naming things after Eleanor Roosevelt College                                                                       &lt;br /&gt;
    and just went with &amp;quot;sixth&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;seventh&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;eighth&amp;quot;. one                                                                        &lt;br /&gt;
    day you will need one in the middle and have to call it                                                                         &lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;quot;seven point fifth&amp;quot;                                                                                                             &lt;br /&gt;
 8) eleanor roosevelt is like the ugliest person you could name                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;
    a college after                                                                                                                 &lt;br /&gt;
 9) it is yet another place where i penetrated your mother in                                                                       &lt;br /&gt;
    all the ways a man can have a woman                                                                                             &lt;br /&gt;
10) also some bear ways&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
anyway i hear Mrs. Gao cooing for me from our Xìng&amp;#039;ài shì. i&lt;br /&gt;
sometimes call her the Government Accounting Office because she&lt;br /&gt;
takes whatever i put inside her and inevitably returns with&lt;br /&gt;
a sensible and well-organized report. she calls deez nuts the&lt;br /&gt;
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Spheres, which i find particularly&lt;br /&gt;
appealing because i am in fact Samoan and not a sandal-wearing&lt;br /&gt;
goldfish tender.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
i hope this has been a useful exchange! i would say that i love&lt;br /&gt;
you, son, but i looked at your Github and you&amp;#039;re no son of mine.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;previously: &amp;quot;[[Three_recent_physical_projects|three recent physical projects]]&amp;quot; 2024-06-22&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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