Geekery in Modern Culture

[jducoeur]

Okay, it says something about the way the world has changed that a widely-syndication comic strip (Foxtrot) can feature not just computer humor, not just stupid puns about computers, but obscure stupid operating-system puns.

It always astonishes me when Foxtrot has jokes that are not only amusing to computer geeks, but are only amusing to computer geeks...

Comments

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

I'd agree that this is a notable trend in general, but Foxtrot is also a special case. Bill Amend is a serious geek. Yesterday's was obscure even for him, but just this week he has made jokes ranging from cubed roots to the ethics of predestiny. This is not your average comic.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Geek, yes. He's posted a "patch" to fix his C code in a previous strip. Yikes.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

well, with kernel panics now happening to OSX users, too, it's becoming a *slightly* wider audience.

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

My wife teaches computer programming at Fredonia U. In a recent comic, Jason Fox writes a C++ program to write 500x "I will not talk in class." I gave a copy to the instructor who teaches C++. I thought he was going to bust a gut laughing. He literally fell out of his chair laughing! :D

[cellio]

Did you give him the patch too? :-)