This noodle is penguin-shaped.

[cosmolinguist]

I'm trying to do my homework, really I am!

I've made myself sit down and actually try to look up things about the history of computers. So I'm looking at this, of coruse, because I wouldn't be me if I didn't think Linux counted as something important in the history of computers. But this is bad, because I'm having too much fun. First, I found this thing about the penguin (a slight variation of said penguin provides this icon of mine), and then came across something kwakhed once mentioned to me: there's a sound clip of Linus Torvalds--the guy nominally responsible for Linux--saying "Hello! I'm Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce 'Linux' as 'Linux.' " Which of course is a ridiculous sentence to read; you have to hear it, it's fun. But what's way funner (my history teacher insists that funner is a word, so I'll go with it) is him saying this in Swedish!

Okay, so I'm easily amused. And I'm sick of my dumb homework. Linux is fun; it's distracting me.

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[photomoviegeek.livejournal.com]

I laughed several times when I hear Linus. I must save the sound file, & had to play the English version 3X. & linux is great fun--so much so that I get distracted when I try to do anything with it...but my box is down now since I tried to overclock the chip & somehow fried it. Good excuse to upgrade!! The stuff about the penguin was funny too.