[UA] God in the Machine

[cd skogsberg]

John Scott wrote:
> At 09:55 21/02/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >Showing my geekiness I suppose...

> > (G)raphical (U)ser (I)nterface.

> >Whenever you're using a mouse, icons, etc. you're using a GUI.

> But a _true_ oldskool geek would know what a WIMP interface was.

Trick question, right? Windows Icons Menus Pointer.  And I only began
fooling around with computers in the mid-90ies.  And oldskool geeks
may be more likely to use CLIs.

Either that, or someone's designed an interface around Weakly
Interacting Massive Particles...  Now there's something you don't
see every day! ('Cause they only interact weakly, see. It's funny,
dammit. Laugh!)

/cd
-- 
"I think that I finally realized that my campaign had become evil when
the players began to evaluate a human life in terms of just how much
interior decorating it could fuel through magical sacrifice!"
                -- Kromm


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