From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Rob Pike and Glenn Danzig? The hidden conspiracy revealed at last.... In-Reply-To: <200307291551.h6TFpL727029@augusta.math.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:03:30 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 08f8e530-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Dan Cross wrote: > Today, I noticed something for perhaps the fifth time, yet it only just > registered. While listening to the strains of, ``TV Casualty'', I > happened to glance at the back of the Misfits album I was listening to > (Legacy of Brutality, highly recommended if you have the means), and > spot a familiar looking bit of text highly reminiscent of our favorite > operating system: ``plan 9'' appears in the lower center portion of > the back of the CD jewel box. > > Now, why is this? Could it be that Rob Pike and Glenn Danzig were > colluding on operating systems research at the time? Did Rob somehow > financed or otherwise influenced the musical direction of the Misfits? > Granted, they came well before Plan 9 from Bell Labs, but still, some > clues in the lyrics are striking. Consider this line from, ``where > eagles dare'': ``We walk the streets at night, we go where eagles > dare!'' Indeed, hasn't Plan 9 gone where eagles dare in terms of > pushing some simple primitives to their limits? > > Coincidence? I think not. I've seen this on other albums as well. There is also a band called "Plan 9". -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------