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Hmm...interesting, though I think I just lost some geek cred for not knowing that, being a applications developer and all :(

@shrdlu: Try giving them spam with bacon this year...I actually exported tinned meat this year (with joyful responses from overseas spammers).

@glindagw: Spam with bacon actually made Popular last week. I used to work with a bunch of people who were raised in Hawaii, where it's actually a favorite food. I just don't ever get hungry enough to willingly eat it, myself.

@shrdlu: ewwwwww, machine code :(

Yeah I had a "lovely" class on that back in College, 8 bit RISC processer written in pure machine code...nasty, glad I had a junior in that class to help our our project team!!

@hessbri: Machine code or assembler? That sounds like assembler. I like assemblers. Unbelievable. That danged Wikipedia just has everything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMPASS

That was my favorite. I loved the Cyber series. Crays too. Computers good.

Which RISC processor?

@shrdlu: You are correct it was assembly code! I remember one of the test was making sure the processor could handle the division by zero error correctly using "mul". Not sure about the specific RISC architecture. We left that to the junior :) I was a hard core code monkey at that point and didn't much care about the other stuff, bad call in hindsight LOL!

@hobbit: Careful. If your eyes glazed over last time, this will just make you unconscious.

@hessbri: Sounds like either Intel or the old Powerpc stuff from IBM, then. No worries, though. It's a common mistake, esp from younger folk, thinking that assembler is machine code. You could actually program patches into the OS on the Cyber series, using machine code.

@sgoman5674: Are you being funny, or picking on the fact that I called it assembler, rather than assembly language? Remember, I was around when Grace Hopper created the first "Compiler" and long ago forgave her for COBOL. She was truly an amazing human being.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

I miss Seymour Cray, too.

Just in case the question was serious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_code

@sgoman5674: Well, then, I'm glad I posted the wikipedia links. I have been "corrected" so many times over the years for calling assembly, assembler, that I suppose I just expected that you were gently hinting that I'd misused the term.

Sorry about putting you to sleep...

@shrdlu: Thanks for the interesting tangent! (seriously)

Now then, back to bacon.

It seems to me at least, that as vegetarians and 'vegans' have grown in popularity and in number, the popularity of 'bacon' has also grown; almost seemingly as a retaliatory action. After all, you can't get more un-vegan than eating a big pile of bacon, right?

Those most proud of their carnivorous appetite tend to refer to bacon as the 'Candy of meat'.. I even have to admit that writing this is making my mouth water.

So what do you all think? Is the increased popularity of bacon related to the increased popularity of vegetarianism in such a way -- or am I wrong?

@hobbit & @shrdlu: I feel more educated now. Thanks!

@sand4me: spam is disgusting. We of the generation who had parents who cooked it too often and badly hate it. I will never eat spam again.

actually I eat very little pork. Bacon is the only pork product I eat and I don't think twice about. My friends call me on it all the time, because I will make a huge deal about not eating ham, I don't like ham - so I do the whole I don't eat pork speech forgetting that I do eat bacon.

@glindagw: Seriously now - do not diss the Spam. Chopped in small pieces, sauted with onions, served with fresh garden tomato bits, cracked pepper - just yummy!

On a related note... is anyone else bothered by the emerging idea of a canon of official geekly interests? I've been called a curmudgeon for this kind of outlook before, but isn't being a geek supposed to be more defined by technical interests/aptitude superseding this kind of drive for conformity? Being a geek shouldn't be about what "meme" you go around typing/shouting (or, hopefully, neither), what foods you purport to crave, or what merchants (th!nkg**k.com, I'm looking in your direction) you might frequent.

Manifesting a bacon fixation is just the Fensler-Films/Cowbell/Lolcat of the present time.

I'm going back to my cave now.

give it to me fresh and brittle like black from the skillet, fill my house with the smoke and make me pull the fire-horn from the kitchen till I can air it out, give it to me burnt and I wont complain. oh and I'm Jewish (shu don't tell anyone)...mmmmmmm Bacon!

@domurat: Wait. Isn't "domurat" Algonquin for bacon? Algonquin Indians invented bacon, you know. Before that, there was only spam.

but I like Bacon. It is my favorite breakfast treat.

@shrdlu: well you're partially correct, "domurat" is Algonquin for "pork fat". Let's not forget all pig parts. "shrdlu" means "spam", right? :)

@domurat: Scratch posting that game. I just checked, and the game link is still there, but the actual site seems to be toast. Too bad.

@domurat: The link works, yes, but the VENDOR page is gone gone gone.

@restlessmouse: You know, there was a deal for one of these back during the Beta Test. Maybe I can find it.

Yep, here it is:

http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/6aa8727e-d7dd-4cec-aa1f-b465f5d52333/bacon-press

Ah, Woot Deals, sometimes you just make me HAPPY!

@elraphbo: I love that blog. It's one I follow in googlereader.

Sad thing is, I've eaten some of those things since I've lived in the UK (fried Mars bar -- had to stop after 2 bites... way too rich) and Hawai'i (loco moco).

@domurat: I agree. I wonder if anyone is even buying these weird items. No offense if they are but I often suspect that these aren't even real products. Maybe we need a bacon.woot site so these aren't constantly showing up here.

Machinarium? Here's the vendor: http://machinarium.net/demo/