On Jun 7, 2013, at 5:57, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, John Foust wrote:
I have a goal of earning one of his award checks.
I know which
one I am pursuing.
I have an item from my fortune file that goes like this:
Intelligence: Finding an error in a Knuth text.
Stupidity: Cashing that $2.56 check you got.
I suppose nowadays you can cash the check by taking a photo of it with your phone and
still have the check as a souvenier.
He actually doesn't issue real checks anymore because of problems
he's had with people posting unredacted pictures of the checks
online and other people committing check fraud with said info.
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news08.html
- Dave