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1. Asking prospective faculty if the colors (i.e. some of the phrases or expressions were highlighted in different colors) in their slides meant anything. I seem to remember him doing this to several new PhDs the dept. was thinking about hiring and none had a good answer. Apparently nobody warned them, either.

2. Asking a networking guy about the use of the term "stack" in his talk. A little unfair, given that the two uses (push/pop stack vs. network protocol stack) are unrelated, but still a bit funny.