Great Star Trek:TOS Quote

My wife and I recently started watching Star Trek: The Original Series episodes via Netflix's Watch Instantly streaming service (they're also available on YouTube Shows).  Although it's a fun show, I still prefer The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine series.  I did, however, come upon a line that made me laugh out loud:

What makes you think you're a man?  You're an overgrown jackrabbit, an elf with a hyperactive thyroid!
Kirk intentionally trying to irritate Spock in This Side of Paradise, Season 1, Episode 24

Merger Madness & One Sample App To Rule Them All

VMware ---	SpringSource ---	/---G2One
		\---CloudFoundry
Terracotta ---	Ehcache
Oracle ---	Sun

With all the mergers and acquisitions happening in the Java world, I thought I'd suggest a sample app someone could build to bring them all together.

Here it is: a Grails app using an Oracle DB with distributed caching provided by Terracotta and Ehcache, all running in a VMware cloud, with deployment and management handled by CloudFoundry.  I think that covers all the bases.  I have no idea what it will do yet, but let me know if I've missed anything. :)

Note: I actually have a lot of respect for all the technologies and people involved, I'm just feeling a bit overwhelmed with all of the recent consolidation!

Great Douglas Adams Quote

I came upon this quote linked to from another blog and loved it. What a shame that he died so young!

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

Best Quote at JavaOne '08

"It's essentially impossible to avoid Swiss cheese." --Gil Tene, Azul Systems

Want to guess about the context? :)

Update: I think I've allowed enough time for everyone to guess. Jeff, with his more serious answer, was the closest. The quote came from the Q&A period that followed a Friday morning technical session, Performance Considerations in Concurrent Garbage-Collected Systems. Gil was explaining that whatever form of memory allocation you use, you'll eventually end up with memory fragmentation. In a JVM, if you use a garbage collector that's both parallel and concurrent, cleaning up that fragmentation can be done without a stop-the-world pause. Conveniently enough, the JVM that comes with Azul's boxes can be run in parallel/concurrent mode. :) Sorry that the quote is less funny when put in context.

Great Saturday Night Live Skit

A friend sent me a link to a Christopher Walken skit on Saturday Night Live. It was so funny, I had to post it. Mr. Walken and odd humor - the perfect combination.