Joy (cithra) wrote,
Joy
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amused

Yesterday I bought a package of "milk chocolate and peanut butter eggs".

I got them home, and was mildly disappointed to realize that what I had read as (milk_chocolate*eggs) + (peanut_butter*eggs) was actually (milk_chocolate + peanut_butter)*eggs.

I blame Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace and I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter.

For some very small value of blame.
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