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loot
by anders pearson
Sat 01 Jun 2002 00:04:15
my friend julintip left today. moved back to ohio to go to law school (well, first she plans on spending the summer lounging on the beach in thailand. envy.) one less person for me to hang out with.
her boyfriend, adam, who's a CS professor at columbia has a research position at los alamos and was driving out there for the summer today so they packed up her stuff, mailed a bunch of it home and packed as much as they could into a rental car and drove off into the sunset together.
[geeky conversation in the elevator:<br>
<i>julintip:</i> the car's already pretty packed, how are we going to fit all of your stuff?<br>
<i>adam:</i> i'm not worried. it's a simple bin-packing problem.<br>
<i>anders:</i> dude, that's NP-complete. you're screwed.<br>
<i>adam:</i> i believe that humans can solve problems that computers can't<br>
<i>anders:</i> true... computers can't really use sledgehammers...<br>
<i>(ain't i witty?)</i>]
as something of a consolation for my loss of a drinking buddy, i got to inherit the stuff she couldn't fit in the car and would've gotten thrown out otherwise. did pretty good. got: an air conditioner (god knows i need it), a TV/VCR combo, a table, and a complete set of glassware.