Sep 15 2006
High Water Mark for Geek Humor?
Okay, I keep track of the high water mark for geek humor on my whiteboard at work. The reigning champion is:
chown -r us ./base
However, I just found this in code after an assignment statement:
Reclaimer, spare that tree!
Take not a single bit!
It used to point to me,
Now I’m protecting it.
It was the reader’s CONS
That made it, paired by dot;
Now, GC, for the nonce,
Thou shalt reclaim it not.
Someone said they stole it from somewhere, but it’s pretty good all the same… Do I have a new winner? I can’t decide!
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Um, shouldn’t that be:
find / -name '*base*' -print | xargs chown -r us?
I’m not sure which is worse, that I got the joke immediately, or that I instantly started nitpicking about it.
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