In a discussion on the Geekup mailing list about a particularly stupid bit of Government legislation, I came across this:
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
It would have been wiser to invest in a couple of islands and some yachts….
Caius Durling wrote:
Any room on there for another (possible) expat? 🙂
Simon Ward wrote:
If we manage to find some islands, it seems we’ll already have thriving geek community. 😀
I tried to imagine how a desert island occupied by hardcore geeks would work..
“Ah I’d love to rescue you from that quicksand, but can you just wait whilst I download the iphone app to do that”
“Guys, Guys, guess what!”
– “what?”
“I’ve already sold an e-commerce site to a Monkey I met in the jungle!!”
– “You fool you should have killed it for food?”
“I couldn’t eat a client!”
“…”
“Does anyone have a Macbook display adapter with them?”
– “no”
“oh..”
“Does anyone have a Windows 7 rescue CD to reimage my laptop with?”
– “no”
“:(”
– “I’ve got a Ubuntu CD…”
“Fuck off”
“Guys, I’ve written a program that takes all the weather information I’ve collected, analyses the current weather and gives you an accurate 7 day weather forcast”
– “Cool”
– “What is this?”
“This is today’s forcast”
– “Oh I think I see, the UI could use some work. How do I see tomorrow’s forcast?”
“Simple, just C-M-], C-X, C-^}, M-987”
– “???”
“This is the Emacs interface”
Anyone else got any ideas? Leave a comment