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“Quantum Computing is about what we can’t do with computers we don’t have”
— Scott Aaronson
“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.”
— Richard P. Feynman
“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
“nobody shits a masterpiece”
— Merlin Mann
“The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.”
— William Gibson, quoted in The Economist, December 4, 2003
When you lived in Tallahassee, didn’t you also used to dress up as a gorilla and call out Bingo numbers? Yes. For several years in the late 90s, it was my honor to be one of the people who portrayed “Jungo,” the Bingo number-calling gorilla. Most Sunday evenings, Jungo — presented as an escapee from a regional conservation park who aspired to become a Las Vegas insult comic — would appear at a club called Waterworks, alongside the bar’s owner Don Quarrello. Bar patrons were treated to several rounds of bingo, playing for modest prizes such as free food and drinks. At the end of the evening, Jungo would customarily take suggestions from the audience to create an improvised rap song full of abuse and gorilla-based braggadocio. How could a life go anywhere but downhill after that kind of professional success. I expect to soon see an underwear-free Merlin climbing out Paris Hilton’s Maybach.

When you lived in Tallahassee, didn’t you also used to dress up as a gorilla and call out Bingo numbers?

Yes. For several years in the late 90s, it was my honor to be one of the people who portrayed “Jungo,” the Bingo number-calling gorilla.

Most Sunday evenings, Jungo — presented as an escapee from a regional conservation park who aspired to become a Las Vegas insult comic — would appear at a club called Waterworks, alongside the bar’s owner Don Quarrello. Bar patrons were treated to several rounds of bingo, playing for modest prizes such as free food and drinks.

At the end of the evening, Jungo would customarily take suggestions from the audience to create an improvised rap song full of abuse and gorilla-based braggadocio.

How could a life go anywhere but downhill after that kind of professional success. I expect to soon see an underwear-free Merlin climbing out Paris Hilton’s Maybach.

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
— Douglas Adams

Ooh, That Smell

I’m waiting on my take-out order at Jake’s Hamburgers. The aroma here takes me back to my days working in bars. Stale smoke and old beer. Bon appetit!

“A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar”
— André Simon