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I’m studying

I have but one exam left. It’s for my Operating Systems: Threading and Synchronization class, which I was extremely confident in, until I attended a review session for the exam and got my brain rocked. So now I’m hitting the books hard, in preparation for the exam sometime tomorrow.

Fortunately, pretty much all the nouns for this class are in English, given that they’re all computer science terms. This is excellent and facilitates gratuitous Wikipediaing in search of answers. Check out this sweet entry I just found.

“When two trains approach each other at a crossing, both shall come to a full stop and neither shall start up again until the other has gone.”

—Illogical Statute passed by the Kansas (USA) State Legislature, early in the 20th century

It was in the entry explaining the concept of deadlocks. Isn’t Wikipedia grand?