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. 
Yep. This is what they now look like (count the jokes):