> Pocket calculators! Now there's something.... has sines, cosines, tangents, logarithms ... It translates from one language to another.... It is, in fact, a multiprocessor system... It has a full color, wraparound wide screen, liquid crystal, three-dimensional holographic display.... Its audio facilities include Dolby Digital Decaphonic surround sound. On the way here I watched "The Labyrinth" on it.

Meant to be tongue-in-cheek in 1984, but sounds surprisingly like a smart phone.

"Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.

There comes a time when people at a technical conference like this need something more relaxing. A change of pace. A shift of style. To put aside all that work stuff and think of something refreshingly different.

So let's talk about coding theory. There are perhaps some of you here tonight who are not experts in coding theory, but rather have been dragged here kicking and screaming. So I thought it would be a good idea if I gave you a sort of instant, five minute graduate course in coding theory."

Edit: So, much more meta than that. Looks like a fun read though. :)

It's a coded in-joke about en-coded jokes.

Pretty funny if you've read any crypto papers.

And that is a GOOD story!!!

> and Alice is a two-timing speculator.

Oh how I laughed at this line!!