Useless trivia about me, phs
This page lists items they told me to remove from my résumé because, and I quote, "taxpayers would not be amused".
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One of the most irritating programs I wrote is the gomoku package for Emacs. Try it with M-x gomoku (under GNU Emacs) and see for yourself how annoying it is.
More relaxing puzzles are available under M-x mpuz. Both packages are meant to smoothen your programming productivity and keep it within sensible bounds.
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I am even prouder of Popeye, one of the most versatile programs for checking fairy and heterodox chess problems. I wrote the first version of Popeye in 1983, and turned it into an early free-software project in 1986. It is still in use today by chess problemists.
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What is a Schnoebelen Promotion? It is a theme in chess problems. Rather than describe it and spoil all the fun, I'll let you solve the following puzzle:
Ph. Schnoebelen
Probleemblad 09/1996
Invent a legal chess game that reaches the above position just after Black's 15th move.
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While American scientists fight evil sects, like creationists, who want to have their funding cut off (before cutting off even more sensitive stuff), French scientists have their own cults to fight off: see the crap we have to put up with!
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Better than bird watching: parrotology! What is parrotology? The science of parrot jokes. Find out here.
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Some nauseating web sites really make me sick ...
