/dev/joe

/dev/joe is the concept of using the computer as the extension of one's own mind, by programming it to perform tasks which one knows how to do, but which are too tedious, error-prone, or otherwise difficult to do without the computer.

The name /dev/joe is a pun on the Unix operating system's "device" files, which are all stored in the /dev directory (see /dev/null, ls -lR /). The second meaning is that Joe is my name and "dev" is the first three letters of my last name...

I am no relation to the fled noder who called him/her/itself /dev/null. (Nor to dev/eth0, who seems to be missing a slash.)

What I Node:

• old chestnuts - the oldest and most repeated puzzles often get that way because they are interesting problems, and can still be interesting to those who haven't seen them before.
• other puzzles and games, including pinball, bridge, and word games
• mathematics, especially recreational mathematics
• chemistry, chemical engineering
• sf books and authors
• a little music that I like, mostly They Might Be Giants
• a few word oddities
• random other computerish stuff and elements of geekdom and anything else I run into that seems missing

Memo to myself:

• Do the dumb things I gotta do
• touch the puppet head
• find my old probability project and node it
• node the "cache and ferry" problem
• improve on the list above to turn it into the Everything /dev/joe Metanode.