The universe is like a palindrome, only not

This weekend was spent not skydiving, which was not awesome. Also, I didn't properly install a dvd-rom in my friend's computer, which, following my Windows installation debacle, was not a good indicator of my success in computer science. I didn't not lend my laptop as a loaner until I got her computer fixed, which wasn't annoying until I remembered that I downloaded the entirety of season five of 24 to my laptop. (Dude, Peter Weller's in it. If I had known Peter "Coolest Man Alive" Weller was in it, Dave "Second Coolest Man Alive" Bushnell would have watched it from the first episode.)

**crazy overenthusiastic use of negatives ends here **

I had lunch with a friend, whom I told my old old old joke that still gets a surprising amount of play: "My grandfather is David P. Bushnell, my father is David A. Bushnell, and I'm David Y. Bushnell. If it starts with Grandpa, it's P-A-Y. If it starts with me, it's YAP."

It wasn't until my walk home from lunch that I realized how brilliant my grandfather was. He set up a joke and waited 43 years for me to deliver the punchline. And the thing is, it can't be duplicated by me. What word starting with Y can describe me, which when spelled backward will also describe my son/grandson/great-grandson? What word? No word, that's what word.

And my grandfather has an entry on Wikipedia. Brilliant, Bene Gesserit-like joke construction, an entry on Wikipedia, and the weather didn't stop him from skydiving. I bet he'd have had problems with that dvd-rom, though. Having hardware fail under Windows is the great equalizer.