overstated / march 2003

6 Comments

1. Herbert Kornfeld
   Posted March 12, 2003 at 6:39 pm | Permalink

   I don’t even know of one geek that speaks latin.

2. Lionfire
   Posted March 12, 2003 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

   Uh oh… yet another response.

   This could get nasty

3. Adam
   Posted March 13, 2003 at 2:56 am | Permalink

   Ali’s the fwiggin’ man. If nothing else, he’s got the wacky brit beat on the “sketchy coolness of AIM name” category.

4. jonah
   Posted March 13, 2003 at 11:49 pm | Permalink

   This story just proves that geeky projects done at MIT get more attention than geeky projects done elsewhere. Ali clearly understood this when he staged his picture and composed the text.

5. cameron
   Posted March 14, 2003 at 9:01 am | Permalink

   So what you’re saying jonah is that you, like other people, are impressed by the size of Ali’s 10-sided die and the neatness of his equations. I concur. This English fellow might have good engineering skillz, but he’s not a geekstar.

6. ali
   Posted March 14, 2003 at 11:55 am | Permalink

   You’re giving me way more credit than you should Jonah. I clearly understood nothing when I posted the picture.

   If I knew anything, I would have had a serious back and forth with AT&T, demanding them to make a handset for me, featuring a picture of a 7 year old sweatshop worker.

   Also, Cameron, I fear that one day the story will get out that the picture wasn’t staged, the I just happened to have the die and the math on my desk, and that I was just too lazy to clear my desk before taking the picture.