The name /dev/joe is a pun on the Unix operating system's "device" files, which are all stored in the /dev directory (see /dev/null, ls -lR /). The second meaning is that Joe is my name and "dev" is the first three letters of my last name...

I am no relation to the fled noder who called him/her/itself /dev/null. (Nor to dev/eth0, who seems to be missing a slash.)

What I Node:

• old chestnuts - the oldest and most repeated puzzles often get that way because they are interesting problems, and can still be interesting to those who haven't seen them before.
• other puzzles and games, including pinball, bridge, and word games
• mathematics, especially recreational mathematics
• chemistry, chemical engineering
• sf books and authors
• a little music that I like, mostly They Might Be Giants
• a few word oddities
• random other computerish stuff and elements of geekdom and anything else I run into that seems missing

Memo to myself:

• Do the dumb things I gotta do
• touch the puppet head
• find my old probability project and node it
• node the "cache and ferry" problem
• improve on the list above to turn it into the Everything /dev/joe Metanode.