New Haven is a small city in a small state. According to the Uber drivers and residents, New Haven is most famous for its pizza, which they claim is the very best. Did you know they use coal fired pizza ovens? They do. And did you know that they not only mispronounce the word “pizza” saying instead “abeets” (or maybe sometimes “apeets”) they also misspell it as “apizza.” I tried some and found it to be exactly like every other thin crust pizza I’ve had from a wood-fired oven.
New Haven is a college town with many universities and colleges, among them are:
- University of New Haven
- Quinnipiac University
- Albertus Magnus College
- Southern Connecticut State University
- Yale
Since I had dropped the van off for the modifications, I had time to kill. So, I cast lots to see which campus to visit. Yale won.
I was surprised to learn that Yale is holding up pretty well and performing satisfactorily, despite its age. Although I must note that Yale faculty have failed to create and develop an entirely new field of knowledge since they created Paleontology quite a few years ago. It is an altogether agreeable place, complete with old buildings, new buildings made to look old and the odd bit of statuary.
One critical tidbit of info: Yale named one of their residential colleges Grace Hopper College, after one of the most important computer scientists in the early days. It was she who coined the term “bug” in reference to errors in software. She did so when the Harvard Mark II stopped working properly and she restored it by removing a moth from one of the mechanical relays. She taped it into the log book and there you have it, the first literal computer bug.
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