Kim Jordan is the director of computing at Carnegie Mellon University. Lest you think that this is all fun and web-surfing, you should note that Kim gets to spend time on things like the Year 2000 Bug. As someone who was involved in my fair share of meetings on this topic, let me assure you that it is not as glamorous as it appears.

However, it is clear that her real interests lie elsewhere. I hope that she brings Penguin to the reunion since my daughters love dogs . . . and my wife, who has different preferences, won’t let them have one, no matter how they plead. Kim says that she has “been trying to come up with a Shorb or Watson-worthy adjective for the dogs but
nothing has struck me quite yet.” Given the amount of time that Kim puts into this, I found her lack of adjectival generation to be nothing short of scandalous.

;-)