_Almost_Totally_ Off Topic Story (*)

So, last week I get hornswaggled into picking my kid up from school. I arrive a bit early, so I actually park the car and wander into the classroom just before it all lets out.

Now this is a private school for special needs kids, so painting and staining gourds with pictures of Bono burn etched into them wasn't unusual behavior.

What _is_ unusual, though, is the set of names on the side of the whiteboard, about 20 of them:

    William Shakespeare
    Albert Einstein
    Zeus
    Edgar Allan Poe
    George Washington
    Richard Feynman
    Linus Torvalds
    Isaac Newton
    Marie Curie
    Earnest Hemmingway
    Hamlet
    ...

Naturally, the questions: "Uh, what do these people have in common? Or why _these_ people? And *wait*, one of those people is still alive!"

So, it turns out they were producing a list of names for the set of computers that were recently donated to the school!

jdl

[ (*) Sorry.  I just know Linus is reading over here these days. ]