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So I go into the public library and pick up a MAD Magazine one morning, and there in the letters section is my old GP from back home, writing in that he's been reading MAD since he was a kid.
Small world.
Since the article has no examples that show how this worked, here's a CSS simulation of two fold-ins for anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of folding the back page of their Mad Magazine : https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effec... (Note the bottom copy before/after as well.)
Some have used the title to refer to the OpenBSD FAQ. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux
RIP.
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I love ya, Mad gang. Thank you for sneakily teaching this kid some critical thinking.
I moved to the other side of the world 8,000miles / 13,000km away. So I go into the public library and pick up a MAD Magazine one morning, and there in the letters section is my old GP from back home, writing in that he's been reading MAD since he was a kid. Small world.
He lists it as his first published paper: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/vita.pdf
So the arguably most reknown computer scientist of all time got his start in Mad Magazine.
I'd have a hard time exaggerating Mad Magazine's influence on my young mind. In particular, their cynical take on advertising pretty much is my view of it. For instance, if I see something like "'Hot New Game' is 'a thrill ride'", I assume they lopped off "...for kindergartners who scare too easily". I love ya, Mad gang. Thank you for sneakily teaching this kid some critical thinking.
I'd have a hard time exaggerating Mad Magazine's influence on my young mind. In particular, their cynical take on advertising pretty much is my view of it. For instance, if I see something like "'Hot New Game' is 'a thrill ride'", I assume they lopped off "...for kindergartners who scare too easily". I love ya, Mad gang. Thank you for sneakily teaching this kid some critical thinking.
And this was before I had any idea what the word "subversive" even meant.
Used to take family vacations to a little cottage where the only entertainment was the Mad Magazine Board Game. Great material, loved the tone, just really fine work.