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By: nethead

nethead — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:32:58 +0000

311-555-2368 is the number that was on every phone in the Bell System marketing photos. Very obscure geek reference. Almost as bad as Key 2135 and Motorola.

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By: meowhous

meowhous — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:04:20 +0000

If anyone’s dented rms’s flute (the woodwind kind), I’d suspect ESR first: I’ve personally witnessed him denting his own flute (while giving some odd little dance of joy outside the @ party at Confrancisco).

I was appalled, but not nearly as much as when later that day I heard him play. It was pretty much what you’d expect out of someone with no formal training who’s been fiddling about for about 6 months, so it’s hard to believe he’s been tootling around since the 70s, as the link above would lead us to believe is when he was declared god of the flute by the mystical powers of the universe.

I’ve only heard rms on the krumhorn and the recorder (not at the same moment), so I’m unaware of his flauting…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:32:20 +0000

If I use BSD, lighttpd, Postgres and Ruby on Rails, am I still allowed to call it LAMP?

By: Steve Barbour

Steve Barbour — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:46:16 +0000

GLAMP? Who the heck ever used the G?

It’s LAMP.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:13:53 +0000

Actually, I’m quite fond of Eric, despite his foibles… can I get a variant t-shirt?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:00:53 +0000

In a recent interview, ESR shocked a lot of people when he said, "We don't need the GPL anymore." Federico Biancuzzi recently contacted RMS, founder of the Free Software Movement and initial developer of the GNU system (the G in "GLAMP"), to talk about the past, the present, and the future of the GNU GPL. Among other things, they discussed the new clauses of the upcoming GPL version 3. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/09/22/gpl3.html

By: Oh no

Oh no — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 12:23:38 +0000

Oh my, how did we let this happen? I just read http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/dancing.html and have to agree Mr.Raymond is not of sound mind, who knows who he is ‘channeling’. I’m taking my gun to my next LUG meeting, if he’s the speaker I’m gonna be ready for him :-)

By: Franky

Franky — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:57:00 +0000

I like the Demi Moore ‘Ghost’ reference!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:54:29 +0000

Anyway if he’s wondering who bent his flute, perhaps this could shed some light on the matter: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/dancing.html (yep ESR doesn’t confine the funnies to his blog)

By: Joe Buck

Joe Buck — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 05:28:26 +0000

Oh, it’s http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=209 I’m talking about.

By: Joe Buck

Joe Buck — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 05:27:06 +0000

Wow. I just read ESR’s “Microsoft’s Worst Nightmare” post. The man is further gone than I thought.
Or, should I say, our “sense organ”? There have to be several cartoons worth of material in that
posting alone.

By: C. Scott Ananian

C. Scott Ananian — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:18:50 +0000

Today on his blog ESR manages to make “free speech” into “sucide thinkers”, the “most important weapons of al-Qaeda and the rest of the Islamist terror network”. We must “recognize, condemn, and reject the suicide thinkers” — heaven knows we can’t just *tolerate* dissent here in this country. Gah.

By: C. Scott Ananian

C. Scott Ananian — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:06:09 +0000

I think I’d prefer “except me” to be on the back — more suspense for the punchline that way.

I’ll stand up and be counted as another movie-trivia-ignorant geek to whom the last panels make perfect sense, but who doesn’t have the Ghostbuster’s number memorized. “Proton packs” are instant recognition.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:39:45 +0000

RMS plays the flute too?