Doesn't this mean that the secretary reads the blog? :-)
one would think the top left heading would be a hyperlink most current article or something.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
[2] http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/
[4] http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/
[5] ...not really, he's far more balanced than RMS. He's a guns-and-crypto nut, and defends his position well.
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That he's so starstruck by contact with Knuth surprises me -- occupying, as they do for me, roughly equal mindshare in the category of "old-school computer celebrities", I figured they'd just know each-other. I guess I don't really have any model of intra-celebrity social diffusion, and that category needs to be more granular.
ESR is to Knuth what Sarah Palin is to Milton Friedman.
And I don't see anything in his recent posts that would lead Knuth to conclude that he's 'doing lots of real important stuff'. The language alone sounds odd.
I still think its possible that someone is just trolling him - and certainly while he seems starstruck to receive a mail from Knuth's secretary - he's boasted before about receiving emails from Knuth.
That said, Knuth reading my blog seems outside the realm of possibility, ESR less so.
