James Mickens is very funny :)
He had some really cool posts at Microsoft Research, which have sadly been deleted (originally for Usenix magazine too).
https://web.archive.org/web/20150208050249/http://research.m...
(see the bottom for the link to the good stuff)
Funny stuff:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150714155945/http://research.m...
https://web.archive.org/web/20150706121547/http://research.m...
