About bertie.stanford.edu

My machine, bertie.stanford.edu, was named in honor of my two favorite Berties,

Bertrand Russell, who once noted:
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
And Bertram Wooster (via P. G. Wodehouse), who once remarked:
He emitted a ringing guffaw, and at the raucous sound any spark of compunction that might have been lingering in my bosom was quenched. A boy to whom the raising of a lump the size of a golf ball on the Wooster bean was a subject for heartless mirth deserved all that boot toe could do to him.