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The man with the Y Combinator tattoo

by norvig on 9/21/07, 6:16 PM with 17 comments

  • by far33d on 9/21/07, 8:16 PM

    Wow.

    That wins for world's dorkiest tattoo. Dorkier than the golden ratio. Dorkier than e^{i\pi} \eq -1, and maybe dorkier than using latex notation in a web forum :)

  • by ivankirigin on 9/22/07, 12:40 AM

    I'm thinking about getting a tattoo. The goal is to get something that is aesthetically pleasing in an abstract sense, to avoid thinking something is ugly years later.

    I was thinking about the great wave, a dragon, a dragon fly or something else made up of PCB layout lines. I think that would look very nice on a forearm. http://www.imakethings.com/2007/09/14/image-to-pcb-app-and-p...

    Most science tattoos are very, very ugly. And what if maxwell's equations or the Y-combinator get invalidated in the future :-P ?

  • by gms on 9/21/07, 10:23 PM

    I wonder if he has a wife/girlfriend.
  • by euccastro on 9/22/07, 3:34 PM

    Gee, imagine waking up hungover after a total blackout and discovering that on your arm...
  • by mdemare on 9/21/07, 8:45 PM

    Oh, I've got one of those, only in Javascript.