From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bgoodheart@wasabisystems.com (bgoodheart) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:42:07 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX as literature In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <00c101c68bb9$bd7f6050$4205a6c0@FERRARI> A great read Greg and so true too. Thanks for posting that. I particularly liked the bit about the overheard conversation in Palo Alto "there used to be a shrimp-and-pasta plate here under ten bucks. Let me see...cat menu | grep shrimp | test -lt $10..." though not syntactically correct (and less-than-scintillating conversation), a diner from an NT shop probably couldn't have expressed himself as casually. This reminded me of a time not so long ago when I was seated in Starbucks in Menlo Park enjoying my Caramel Macchiato Venti and overhearing a heated debate between 6 or 7 guys about the GUI vs. command line issue. It seemed to start when a couple of guys in one party, seemingly unknown to the other party, who were talking about kde, rudely butted in to their conversation. Anyway the debate got so verbal that in the end they were all ushered out of Starbucks in an effort to keep the peace. How funny it was. Cheers, Berny