From: Matthew Veety <mveety@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] CODE AS THOU WILT summer sponsored by the Loonie Revolution
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 23:30:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58137E0B-1112-481A-A7B7-2396285AD67B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANk5qp3dApQC307D=KGOhs5iUmw3rPWo+XONouD=piDSqLJV3Q@mail.gmail.com>
I feel like you're taking rips off the wrong bong tonight. Amazon payments are way better.
On May 1, 2013, at 22:46, mycroftiv 9gridchan <mycroftiv@sphericalharmony.com> wrote:
> The Loonie Revolution is proud to announce and sponsor:
>
> CODE AS THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW summer
>
> What are the rules?
>
> NONE. From May 1 to Aug 30.
>
> What is going to happen?
>
> Some people (maybe you) are going to write some original Plan 9 code
> that does something at least slightly interesting and new. Then the
> Loonie Revolution will send you $99 via PayPal.
>
> That's not much money for coding, is it?
>
> Nope. Think of it as a tip of gratitude, not as an hourly wage for
> your efforts.
>
> Can I just write Hello World and get money for it?
>
> Nope, not unless it said hello to a different world via the tachyon
> telephone device. There is no minimum specification, but the software
> has to do something new for Plan 9, not just solve an Euler problem or
> something.
>
> "Loonie Revolution" - is this just a troll?
>
> Nope. The new lunar-powered revolution of peace and love to bring the
> fantasy of a better world into our shared reality has been declared.
> The fiction binds are forming and the harmonic time resonance is
> vibrating in helical patterns.
>
> Ben Kidwell
> Loonie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-02 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-02 2:46 mycroftiv 9gridchan
2013-05-02 2:55 ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 3:08 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-05-02 3:30 ` Matthew Veety [this message]
2013-05-02 9:21 ` hiro
2013-05-02 16:11 ` Scott Elcomb
2013-05-02 17:29 ` Kurt H Maier
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