It's a bit technical, but it may be of minor interest to lil given her recent post on algorithmic text.
Yes - a bit of an inside joke from my last job. I rather like biological trees :)
I'm not sure. If you're asking if it's a marijuana reference (only other common meaning for trees that I'm aware of), then no. It's due to my (alleged) aversion to trees. EDIT: It occurs to me that you're probably asking about my 'liking biological trees' comment. I'm referring to the large plants made out of wood, there. Basically, I wrote some really slow, difficult to maintain code that operated on very, very large trees. I still work with many of the same people at a new company, and I still haven't heard the end of it.
It's just completely mind-blowing to me that it works at all. It's like "Hey, here's a bunch of words and a rule for turning them into lists of numbers! If you do math on the numbers and convert them back to words, the results make sense!" How bizarre is that? The whole "king - man + woman = queen" example is just insane.