My backup program (Mozy) went awry.  I followed their instructions for repairing it (delete certain files) and it started up.  It took a long time to get going (but it finally did), and during that time it emitted several messages.  One of them was “Reticulating splines”.

This causes me considerable Cognitive Dissonance (sometimes known as CD).  In fact, this causes me Dismaying Virtual Disturbance (otherwise known as DVD).  Reticulating splines is all about continuous  (indeed differentiable) things.  Backing up digital files is all about discrete things.  How can you apply splines to a discrete process?

No doubt some reader will tell me.

POSTSCRIPT:  I just found out, from here. Now I have Egg On My Face (EOMF) because I wrote a blog about something without looking it up on Google. Sigh.

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