Mine as well.

I have a fond memory of being at a party where someone had the idea to do dramatic readings of various Mickens Usenix papers. Even just doing partial readings, it was slow going, lots of pauses to recover from overwhelming laughter. When the reading of The Slow Winter got to "THE MAGMA PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR OUR MISTAKES", we had to stop because someone had laughed so hard they threw up. Not in an awful way, but enough to give us a pause in the action, and to decide we couldn't go on.

Good times.

Sounds like you found nerd heaven. I couldn't imagine a situation like yours in my world! :)

Bit of an aside, but I'm wondering in what city this was in.

I'm going to be job hunting soon and I was planning to prioritize the Bay Area because that's the only place I've encountered a decent density of people like this, but maybe I'm setting my sights too short.

Houston, Texas.

There are nerds everywhere.

If people want to read all six, here they are! https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens

My favorite is The Night Watch.

> [...] it’s pretty clear that compilers are a thing of the past, and the next generation of processors will run English-level pseudocode directly.

hilarious AND scary levels of prescient writing...