Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Aspiring Geek
Many of you know that I dream of having the skills and technical knowledge of a hard core computer geek. Right now I have to settle for having the social skills of one. But the plus side is that I "get" jokes like the one below, posted to the geek news site slashdot. It refers to a "Dear John" letter someone wrote to Windows XP, saying goodbye to the operating system (OS) forever, because it sucks.
A dear John letter to an OS. Reminds me of when I had my last Pascal class on a VMS/VAX system:
Dear VMS:
You have tortured my life for the last time. I hate you with a pure and perfect hatred. Your renaming of my files is maddening. Your syntax is arcane and pointless. I would prefer attempting to cluster 500 Windows ME systems.
It's not me, it's definitely you.
I hope to god someone else finds this funny. Even if they're a geek, too.