James Mickens is funniest man at Microsoft Research
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That sounds kind of like faint praise, but he's way, way better than you might think, given that build up.
Or you can watch him give a presentation on cloud computing, security, and the general awesomeness of James Mickens here.
Or you can some of his essays, linked to here.
I made the mistake of watching the video one evening while I was trying to relax to go to sleep and laughed so hard and so many times that I was up for hours. The fact that I wanted to read everything he'd ever written didn't help, either.