Nick Bradbury has a funny entry in his blog covering what he calls past incidents of Freudian typos. Most people are familiar with Sigmund Freud and his line of work. People sometimes refer to Freudian slips where something unintended takes place or is said, but a reasonable explanation might be available for why its occurrence might subconsciously have been done on purpose. The obvious question is was it really a mistake at all? Freud believed that all of these things, intended or unintended, revealed information about the person and their subconcious.
One of my professors in college that taught me assembly programming (and a joke of a database class) was named Treu (pronounced troy). He was generally regarded as an evil man that delighted in the suffering of his students buried under the mounds of reports and code assigned to them. At a decidedly technology oriented university, this was a man that insisted on printing everything out and handing it to students. Back in 4th grade, that worked well for studying and reviewing your 20 word spelling list. However, when you're handed 40 pages of
Unfortunately, I will never forget this man. Every time I set a boolean value to TRUE and transpose the the 'u' and 'e', I am reminded of good ole Professor Treu.
Now excuse me while I go call my therapist.