This is, I think, the bestest funniest post to hit Hacker News in awhile.
A few weeks later I, apparently, made a terrible joke. Seconds later this shows up in my inbox:
Dear Timothy,
After careful deliberation, it's been decided that you need to be fired.
Reason: telling not funny jokes
You may take one (1) Odwalla for the road.
Thanks,
The Firing Committee
Not only was it hilarious but while I suspected Evan, he hadn't had time to type that whole message! Over the next few weeks I received quite a few of these e-mails, but with different messages:
Reason: distracting Evan from his conversation with Luc
Reason: Asking too many questions
etc.
It turns out that not only did Evan find the need to write a formal you're fired letter; he wrote a web service to send formal you're fired letters. To me.
You're fired, for dragging down the average amount of awesome in any room Evan is in.
(I suppose it's funnier if you've done research. Roughly 88.69% of all research literature is some dude trying to "improve" a simple model with pages of mathematics. Not that this guy was wrong -- it was just evocative.)