sexta-feira cinco
1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?
It used to say "Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow," a quote attributed to Parliament Funkadelic founder George Clinton. Now it's just the standard corporate bullshit.
2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?
I don't recall that I had a quote in my yearbook.
3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?
Either "FLARGH" or something suitably retarded for someone who does what I do, like "MACMAN" or "POWRPC" etc. I'd probably opt for Flargh. It's been my online handle for what seems like forever.
4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?
I've gotten a couple of gifts with my initials engraved on them, but that's about it.
5. What would you like your epitaph to be?
"Father, husband, billionaire, benefactor to millions."
Comments
I've been meaning to ask you... Where did "flargh" come from? Significance?
Posted by: lyssa | January 16, 2004 03:14 PM
It's kind of a long and convoluted story. The reader's digest condensed version goes something like this:
I first got on the 'net around 91 or so, when I got a job with a company that had real system admins and real high-speed connectivity to the Intarweb at a time that it was still a novel idea.
"Flargh" was sort of a generic perjorative term they and others within their sphere of influence (Kendall Sq. Cambridge/MIT sysop types) used as sort of an all purpose replacement for more filthy words:
"That cheap-ass pinfeed paper we're using is crap. The log printer's heads got flarghed up again."
"The backup tapes have jammed in the crufty DAT drive for the last three nights in a row. Flargh!"
They had bandwidth to spare, so they set me up with an e-mail account and showed me how to use IRC. I called myself flargh one day in chat, and it just sort of stuck.
Posted by: flargh | January 16, 2004 04:20 PM