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

[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? :-)