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On 3/31/2024 1:49 PM, wmartin wrote:
>> Perhaps the date is significant?
>
> IEEE sense of humor? There must be a committee for that! Or it might just be an 
> oxymoron.

Intelligence isn't contraindicated by humor.  Remember the WOM and WORN
from the 70's?

I delight in subtle brain hacks -- wondering which folks will understand
the humor (like my LED Braille Clock or my sundial -- "horizontal" with
perpendicular gnomon that keeps perfect local time... even recognizing DST!).

And, the folks that *do* manage to "get it" invariably *blurt* out a laugh!