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Given the recent environment of reflection on past statements made , I have looked at my past to see if there are things I have said that might not be verifiably true. I have said multiple times in the past that Richard Stallman was actually Weird Al Yankovic with a costume beard. I had heard this through various sources, but there is no published source that confirms this, and I now believe I may have accidentally completely made that up and passed it off as fact. I have no way to verify that Stallman is not Yankovic, but there is no basis to claim he is. I apologize to Mr. Stallman, and, should he be a separate person, Mr. Yankovic. While Mr. Yankovic may not actually be RMS, he does a have a history of Stallman-esque leanings, as exhibited by the original titles of his hit songs before the record labels changed them: - It's All About the GNU/Pentiums - Living in an Amish Paradise (To Escape the Evil, Proprietary Monopoly that is Microsoft) So I don't withdraw my claim th...

I have recently felt like my popularity is waning a bit, people just aren't talking about me enough. Fortunately, current events have given me an idea. At this year's PDC, if I go, I will yell something horribly distasteful during the keynote, and then immediately apologize like I never meant for it to happen. What this means to you dear reader is that we only have roughly two months to come up with what I should spontaneously yell with no forethought whatsoever. I'll start the ball rolling with a few: - "Clippy is racist." - "Windows ME was the best version of Windows ever." - "You lie", in response to the cloud being the future. - "Steve Jobs is a handsome man." - "That guy was lucky Ballmer only threw a chair at him." - "Anders Hejlsberg is a no-talent hack." - "I'm really happy for you Windows 7, I'm gonna let you finish, but Vista SP1 had one of the best videos of all time ." - "Hitle...

Today when I visited Stack Overflow , I was excited to see I had unknowingly earned a gold badge: Unfortunately, that excitement quickly turned to despair when I saw what it was for: At this point, there are two things that go through one's head: 1) I should show this to my girlfriend. 2) Perhaps if I did not have said badge, I might have said girlfriend.