Bugs, mice, just wait until we get to the gnus.

[cosmolinguist]

Sarah and I have to make webpages for our CSci class. They need a textured background, an animated .gif, and five bits of computer history.

Between the two of us, we currently have one background (we can't figure out why Sarah's doesn't work), one animated .gif, and five bits of computer history (or maybe only four). Besides my clever gif (which I got Darren to make because he loves me and is a graphic wizard (I would've done it myself, though, if I knew how)), Sarah has some great computer history:

• Bill Gates came up with the most widely used OS today, Windows, as it is known, is messy, insecure, and propriatery.
• [about Linus Torvalds] He, like, was a college student when he wrote the program. He is a smart dude. Also, he is Finnish, where they have a famously open society, including socialized health care. (I like this one best. In all fairness, there is supposed to be "us" after that "like," but it's funnier this way.)
• Because of the cold weather in Finland, perhaps, the Linux mascot is a penguin.

Oh yes, we are masters of the web--webmistresses, even, right parakleta?

We are doing our best to have fun with our lame, constraining, no-fun homework.

Comments

[acromonkee.livejournal.com]

oh haha! Remember that really dorky joke from middle school?

What's gnu?

It's an animal in the zoo. Have a nice day lama of the holly kind.

:-)

[cosmolinguist]

Such happy thoughts you send me off to class with ...

On health care

[5-rings.livejournal.com]

Finnish health care is universal, this is true, but is principally financed at the local level through a subsidiarity-heavy variant of the Nordic social welfare model. This means people in rich cities have better health care than the people in the countryside. Applied to the United States, this would mean that Beverly Hills would have the best health care system, while urban areas and white Appalachia would have the worst.

Hmm . . . kind of like right now.

Re: On health care

[cosmolinguist]

I mentioned--jokingly--that they must have socialized health care, and even though I said later that I thought I was thinking of Sweden, she put it in anyway, because that's what you do when you're BSing stuff. So I'm kind of impressed that we even got close.

Re: On health care

[5-rings.livejournal.com]

Actually, you could say "Country X has socialized health care" and you'd be right in most cases in Europe. But, you know, socialized medicine tends to vary from place to place.

Need more info...

[parakleta.livejournal.com]

To be fair to the other webmistresses in my fantasies, I'd really have to see how you looked in leather before bestowing that title upon you. To complete your application for acceptance into this 1337 force, you should forward a photo of yourself wearing leather, via email, to the address on my User Info Page (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=parakleta) at your earliest convenience.

;)

I can always hope can't I... :)

Indeed

[cosmolinguist]

Well, when I said my butt was pointy and ripping all of my jeans, somebody said they wanted a picture of that so they could check for themselves. I don't blame you guys for trying. :-)

Do you read Helen..?

[parakleta.livejournal.com]

Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=helen_comic). It's about an independent female software developer, and it's kinda funny.

Check it out.