Cryptic Warnings

The Book of Treacherous Prophecy says, “When you get to the fork in the road, go left.”

Player 1: “That’s confusing.”

Player 2: “It’s a prophecy. You know how they try to mislead you.”

Player 3: “Hey! We’ve come to a fork in the road.”

P1: “Just like the prophecy foretold! What do we do?”

P2: “We go left.”

P3: “But what does ‘left’ mean?”

P2: “I don’t know. You know how those prophecies mislead you.”

P1: “Left is the opposite of right, right?”

P3: “Right.”

P1: “And the book wants us to go left.”

P2: “Right.”

P1: “So we should go the opposite way.”

P3: “Right!”

P2: “To the right!”

P3: “Good thinking all around!”

Players fight a dragon. Truly, the book is treacherous.

University

Going to graduate school is weird. You pay the school a ton of money to let you work really hard.

On the other hand, a decent power supply is about a thousand bucks, and sometimes I just need three of them. And a scope. Sig gen. HPC. Coffee machine. Floor buffer. Overhead lights. Trash service. Box of stepper motor driver boards. Ovaltine.

They don’t have Ovaltine. I bring my own.

Comcast

I don’t know if I can truthfully say Comcast is my internet service provider.

‘I pay Comcast for internet service,’ is as far as I can go.

SAT Literature Questions

Which of the following is the moral of Oedipus the King?

A) Kill your father.
B) Don’t marry your mother.
C) Your kids are going to sleep together and die.
D) Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Stakes

One good thing about sports is the way they teach you to handle high stakes. A championship game is a high-stake affair, at least for the people playing. One rarely gets to championships if one doesn’t care. There’s no reason to panic and no reason to stop caring. One shouldn’t diminish the effort involved, nor allow it to overwhelm. It isn’t easy, but it isn’t impossible. It’s just a high-stakes event.