OT: Years of Errors

[Daniel Keep]

Pragma wrote:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>>
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> Frits van Bommel wrote:
>>>>> Manfred Nowak wrote:
>>>>>> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/87499/from/rss09
>>>>> For those who don't speak German, and in line with the recent
>>>>> discussion about automatic translation, the Google translation is
>>>>> somewhat readable:
>>>>> http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2F87499%2Ffrom%2Frss09&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (definitely not perfect though)
>>>> Hmm. When I translated it, it came back:
>>>>
>>>> "Das maschinen ist nicht for gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Sitz
>>>> back und vatch das spitzensparken."
>>> LOL.  The BlinkenLights text was on the wall at a school I attended
>>> years ago.  I've never been able to forget it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sean
>>
>> Aah, the wonders of the Intarwebs.  That I can have *no* idea what
>> you're going on about, and have the full text inside of 15 seconds
>> thanks to Google and Wikipedia is a miracle.  :)
>>
> 
> Welcome to the shared experience that we used to only get from reading
> the same books, watching the same movies, listening to the same music
> and traveling to the same places.  Now every "in joke" from the last 30
> years or so is archived for posterity.  The Internet is rapidly becoming
> one giant, shared hallucination, from which millions can reflect upon
> rapidly and easily.  And to think this type of activity (peering into a
> computer screen for hours) used to be labeled as 'anti social'.
> 
> </philosophical>
> 
> I was in the same boat.  I found it particularly interesting that the
> wikipedia article on "Blinkenlights" mentions that there's a
> faux-English equivalent that German-speaking folks use.

It's like that discussion on vampiric vegetables: I *never* would have
known about that if not for the internet (and this NG in particular).
My knowledge of the world has expanded vastly since I found out about
Wikipedia :P

That said, I do think it's still anti-social.  I spend pretty much all
of my time in my little cave, wrapped in the warm glow of my CRT.
Sometimes, even I feel the need to go outside and actually spend time
with people.

Pity I'm not very good at it; I'd probably be a lot happier if I was :P

	-- Daniel

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