March 18, 1999

So I'm at LinuxWorld a couple weeks ago. I bump into Linus Torvalds on the expo floor and stop him so I can hook him up with a "Linux is the shit" sticker, compliments of !!!Srini. (Linus and I go waaaay back-- to the days we camped out in the warm Helsinki summer, ice fishing while sitting on our Osbourne "lugtops" running CP/M.) Linus' reaction to the sticker is a sheepish, "this means something bad, doesn't it?". "No Linus", I reassure him, "it means Linux is THE BOMB, THE MAC DADDY, DOPE, FLY, PHAT!" He nervously puts the sticker in his bag and runs away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh yeah, another cool thing about LinuxWorld, besides the free software and the drama between Open Source's Eric Raymond and GNU/Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman, was the bird. Yep, sitting atop booth banner 1400 was a nice fat pigeon, shitting on unsuspecting Slashdotter's below.

 

 

 

Not to dwell, but to plug, cool stickers with your message can be had easily. Also, Unamerican is up for a Webby tommorrow. This site really does rock!

 

More nuggets from Market Street- There is a guy named Ralph who sells single sheets of paper with fresh poetry he scribes daily. Here's yesterday's submission:

The old man plays guard.
He has to block the man in front of him.
It is pouring rain.
His whole body is in pain.
He digs his knuckles in the mud.
He leans into the other man with a thud.
Rain and sweat cover his face.
But he blocks his man in style and grace.
An old professional man in football.
He plays ball.

Ever have a Whiz burger?

 
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