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Santa == sysadmin != funny
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By Quacky, Section Weird
Posted on Fri Dec 17th, 2004 at 11:33:57 AM PDT
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sometimes a story just sort of starts to clump together.
My friend Godzilla mentioned a funny comic that had something to do with Santa Claus and computers. Here: see for yourself:
Fox Trot
So, what would be the chances of finding a really good picture of some heavy, bearded, stereotypical computer guy, dressed up as Santa? Not really good it turns out.
But, the chances of unearthing some really, really, really bad UNIX/Santa Claus humor… well. See for yourself:
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who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | egrep ‘bad|good’
And …
Santa must be a System Administrator
I was musing on similarities between Santa Claus and system administrators. Consider:
- Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny.
- … continues on for quite possibly the worst computer/holiday bit of humor ever
Which, it seems, comes from a fellow named Jeff Ballard. Now, no offense intended or anything, but … wow. Some parts of the ‘WWW’ (as it once was called) haven’t changed at all since it was invented.
And when you start to dig into it, you start to have this realization. The people who invented The Internet are really some of the most unfunny people there are. Because, look at this:
Top 10 reasons computers are male
Top 10 reasons compilers must be female
Yeah. That’s actually a joke about compilers. Jeez.
So, here’s an equally unfunny explanation I’d like to offer:
Unix was reverse engineered from the computers on the Roswell ufo.
“Nothing that close to perfect has ever been developed by human beings,” said the Area 51 employee.
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