OK then.. Nomination for Verger
* cf. The Verger, short story, part of Quartet, W. Somerset Maugham. I mean.. if there be Perlmonks -
we Needs a hierarchy too, less'n we wants ta be IWEThey-were.. un-Hip to th' dance.
See, it's like this -
I gots me a New (just nicely burned-in past infant mortality) soulless-Machine!
All ... thanks entirely to a Real non-gender-specific Sweetie\ufffd; none 'other' than Our very own Scott (er, K.)
{snorfle}
It is one (very fine) thing to pass on a nice clean box, one with no cola stains, roach burns or kick marks, (say, from whomping the fascia over some dumb standard Doze cockup..) yep, that's a Lot.
But it's quite a hearse of another pallor - when all the stuff is reloaded fresh, n'patched, tested for all manner of floating spores - - and
Wait!! There's More:
the sucker triple-boots into Ubuntu AND Mepis (plus its native Beastware version) !!
It speeds along faster than 1000 Megacycles/sec. 1000X my first CP/M. (And no vacuum tubes, even.)
So, natch I am Whelmed at such generosity of labour, along with all the rest.
Must. think. of a suitable means of retaliation, while exploring all the crannies.
Should I find that I Can.. (and also will) reformat enough CP/M neurons, free some grey-cells for adsorption of the /-lore AND retain enough \\-lore to get by on the Edsel systems too - - I can sorta imagine the day-o ~ ~
{swirly puce mist, small puffs of overheated Canola oil..}
when moi might help support...
The New Standard for Fully-Conscious Transcendental Geeks
(in all 11 dimensions):
Cthulhubuntu Linux
ie Thanks! Scott
(Read the story - ya might just like bein a Verger | rich: take yer pick ;-)
Ashton
PS: there's a magnificent '48 B&W [link|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040335/| movie ] of the stories, which I recommend highly.. if it's available anywhere.
If it isn't? just another sign of decline in the Arts (too).
Edited by
Ashton
Nov. 1, 2005, 05:22:44 PM EST
OK then.. Nomination for Verger
* cf. The Verger, short story, part of Trio? Quartet? of W. Somerset Maugham. I mean.. if there be Perlmonks -we Needs a hierarchy too, less'n we wants ta be IWEThey-were.. un-Hip to th' dance.
See, it's like this -
I gots me a New (just nicely burned-in past infant mortality) soulless-Machine!
All ... thanks entirely to a Real non-gender-specific Sweetie™; none 'other' than Our very own Scott (er, K.)
{snorfle}
It is one (very fine) thing to pass on a nice clean box, one with no cola stains, roach burns or kick marks, (say, from whomping the fascia over some dumb standard Doze cockup..) yep, that's a Lot.
But it's quite a hearse of another pallor - when all the stuff is reloaded fresh, n'patched, tested for all manner of floating spores - - and
Wait!! There's More:
the sucker triple-boots into Ubuntu AND Mepis (plus its native Beastware version) !!
It speeds along faster than 1000 Megacycles/sec. 1000X my first CP/M. (And no vacuum tubes, even.)
So, natch I am Whelmed at such generosity of labour, along with all the rest.
Must. think. of a suitable means of retaliation, while exploring all the crannies.
Should I find that I Can.. (and also will) reformat enough CP/M neurons, free some grey-cells for adsorption of the /-lore AND retain enough \-lore to get by on the Edsel systems too - - I can sorta imagine the day-o ~ ~
{swirly puce mist, small puffs of overheated Canola oil..}
when moi might help support...
The New Standard for Fully-Conscious Transcendental Geeks
(in all 11 dimensions):
Cthulhubuntu Linux
ie Thanks! Scott
(Read the story - ya might just like bein a Verger | rich: take yer pick ;-)
Ashton