A call from Wolfram Research
My school friends and I had a small reunion few days ago. We had just had mocha at Café Coffee Day outlet in the city and I was driving them back to friend's house. We had just crossed one of the busiest squares and my cell phone rang. I'd normally ignore phone calls when I'm driving. But I decided to check the number.
The call was not from a known contact and the number looked bit longer. I stopped my car and picked up the phone. "Hello, I'm John Ekizian from Wolfram Research...".
"Woa!", it took me few seconds to believe that that call was from Wolfram Research - the company behind Mathematica and WolframAlpha!
"How do you pronounce your name?"
"It's easy, imagine a cow sitting in a tub. It's Cow's Tub"
"Cow's Tub (Kaus![[IMG]](proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crazyengineers.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F06%2Fcell-phone-150x150.jpg&hash=cf2716f828ad33961ccc6a1229790022)
tubh), we would like to have your engineers ask questions to Stephen Wolfram. I think we should have done it in the first place. How do you like the idea?"
"Sounds great! I'll ask our engineers to come up with their own questions. We'll need about 10 days for this activity. Is that ok with you?"
"It's good. Go ahead"
"Alright, we'll pick up the top questions asked by our engineers and send them to you. Dr. Wolfram may answer them in his free time".
"Sounds great."
"Alright, Nice talking to you!"
"Have a good day"
"You too, John!"
...and for the next few minutes, I was thinking of CE's journey till today from a tiny, non-existant website that no one wanted to join.
The Big K
Founder & Administrator
CrazyEngineers
The call was not from a known contact and the number looked bit longer. I stopped my car and picked up the phone. "Hello, I'm John Ekizian from Wolfram Research...".
"Woa!", it took me few seconds to believe that that call was from Wolfram Research - the company behind Mathematica and WolframAlpha!
"How do you pronounce your name?"
"It's easy, imagine a cow sitting in a tub. It's Cow's Tub"
"Cow's Tub (Kaus
tubh), we would like to have your engineers ask questions to Stephen Wolfram. I think we should have done it in the first place. How do you like the idea?""Sounds great! I'll ask our engineers to come up with their own questions. We'll need about 10 days for this activity. Is that ok with you?"
"It's good. Go ahead"
"Alright, we'll pick up the top questions asked by our engineers and send them to you. Dr. Wolfram may answer them in his free time".
"Sounds great."
"Alright, Nice talking to you!"
"Have a good day"
"You too, John!"
...and for the next few minutes, I was thinking of CE's journey till today from a tiny, non-existant website that no one wanted to join.
The Big K
Founder & Administrator
CrazyEngineers
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