What is it with 40? It seems so complete. There were those 40 days and nights on the ark. The 40 day fast in the wilderness. 40 days of lent. 40 of anything seems significant, even monumental. So, being awake for 40 hours with no sleep seems outrageous. After all, it is a personal best.
Unfortunately this is an all-nighter that went bad--it be came an all-dayer followed by a late-nighter. I've been working like an animal on my submission for VL/HCC '06. That's right, a special kind of animal that can think and write and compile LaTeX: a "grad student." (Well...compile LaTeX for sure...) But let me tell you, if writing the paper hadn't been so interesting, I would have passed out by now.
I better get to bed before it hits 41. That doesn't seem nearly as exciting.
Posted by enigma at March 11, 2006 02:00 AM40 is all well and good, but it's just shy of the answer to life, the universe, and everything:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+answer+to+life,+the+universe+and+everything&btnG=Google+Search