Journal Entry Date: 20 Sept 2004
Thought for the Day: On the road of life...if you're moving so fast you leave everyone behind, life is a blur, detail is lost; if moving too slow, you get bogged down in detail and begin to stagnate.
Brought to eye/mind today: Looking for images of robed figures at Google--
>"robed figure" yielded a couple of pages
>"hooded figure" was about the same
>"monk" yielded mostly Buddhist monks
>"Medieval monk" yielded mostly tonsured ones
>"Obi Wan" yielded a lot (>15 pages)
Are we defined by what is popular?
Thank you, Lord, for a dose of reality.
Journal:
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The OS, quickly renamed to a more respectable "Unix", was adopted first by
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That didn't happen. Ritchie and Thompson were too talented to create a
crappy operating system; no matter how hard they tried the system was too
good. Their last ditch effort to sabotage the system by recoding it
obfuscated C was unsuccessful. Before long Unix spread outside of Bell
Labs and their conspiracy collapsed.
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