He's going to write a fourth book?

It took less than nine minutes of Donald Knuth lecturing on binary trees to blow my mind, and the lecture is about sixty minutes long. I need some coffee, and perhaps a donut, before I even attempt to move forward with the rest of it. What that man knows... I would consider my duty to my craft well met even to keep up in conversation with him.

What I find even more amazing, however, is that these lectures and so much more exist in the ether, just waiting for people to pluck them out of the digital sea. I never really felt the power of the internet until Knuth explained binary tree rotation.

The internet delivers on the promise that television never realized of mass communication in all forms. It is our bank and our television and our lecture hall and our porch to gossip on. It is economics and entertainment and education and Ella Fitzgerald playing while you knock back a beer and sit with a friend.

I love today.