See, people, I am not that bad I am just 58 percent geek:
58% Geek

(Yet I need to say “did you ever solve a complex computer problem while in the shower” is a mean catch question and a geek dead giveaway that I stepped right into )

(Thanks for the link, Kai!)

Apparently, a Tanzanian man died after his knee was operated on. Sad but that happens, I guess. What is worse is that he was scheduled to get brain surgery instead. Consequently, the guy who actually needed his knee fixed got his head worked on and now is paralyzed but slowly recovering (needless to say his knee is still bad).

What the…? As the average patient, this can only mean next time you need to go to the hospital bring a big sharpie and clearly mark the spot that needs to be worked on. For added security, you should also consider covering your entire body with arrows pointing into the right direction. Just in case.

Meanwhile, the family of the guy who died does not seek to sue the government for the unfortunate mix-up, the article linked above mentions; instead, they have “urged the health ministry to employ qualified and compassionate medical staff.” Now I wonder — shouldn’t medical staff always be qualified in order to get employed somewhere? But maybe it’s just too much asked that medical staff double-checks the files before performing brain surgery on a knee patient…

Part of a conversation I overheard in the dining hall today, apparently between two maybe third-semester computer scientists:

These information engineers are the worst! I have met them in my CS 2 class! They ask the weirdest questions and they don’t even know basic mathematics!

Despite the insult, this amused me. Silly boy, believing anyone here hasn’t been tortured with “basic mathematics” for a significant amount of time

An homage to the famous 1970s arcade game Space Invaders, seen on an office door at the University of Karlsruhe: