Richard Stallman Facts

[topaz]

One of the newer geek memes seems to be coming up with new variants on Chuck Norris Facts:

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
The chief export of Chuck Norris is Pain.
Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves.

etc.  For example, see Bruce Schneier Facts:

There are no finite state machines. There are only a series of states that Bruce Schneier allows to exist.
Bruce Schneier knows the state of Schroedinger's cat.
All infinite sets are countable -- by Bruce Schneier.
In a fight between Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir, the winner would be Bruce Schneier.

The latest addition I have found are Richard Stallman Facts, most of which are pretty stupid but some of which entertained me:

Whenever Richard Stallman points at a Windows computer, it segfaults.
Richard Stallman wrote a program that divides by zero.
Richard Stallman's compiler is afraid to report errors.
Richard Stallman doesn't write programs, they write themselves out of reverence.
Richard Stallman can make infinite loops end.
Richard Stallman's first words were actually syscalls.
Richard Stallman gets 9 bits to the byte.
Richard Stallman can tell you if your program will halt.
All your base are belong to Richard Stallman.

But maybe the best one of all, for pure subtlety:

Richard Stallman wrote Emacs.

Comments

[jss]

I am so pissed at myself for not seeing that until you pointed it out.

[khedron.livejournal.com]

If it helps, it took me some time to realize that "Alice" was probably chosen intentionally as well. She's always sending those encrypted messages to Bob, you know...

(I was side-tracked by wondering what AVE__ might spell.)

[sine.livejournal.com]

here's her father's email to stallman. i was wrong -- it's editorfather:

http://www.stallman.org/editorfather.html

Her
mother, Laura Hardyman, wanted to give her a middle name of Violet,
after one of the child's grandmothers. I told that, while I
appreciated the sentiment, I simply couldn't bring myself to agree to
giving her a middle name of Vi! Not, that is, unless she was given a
second middle name of Emacs for balance.

i said he was a big ol geek.

[khedron.livejournal.com]

That is definitely the geekiest thing I've read in a long time.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I'm not pissed. I'm disgusted with myself for not seeing it.

A friend of mine and former coworker used to live in the Virgin Islands, and because he still maintained a presence there he had the right to get a .vi domain for some nominal amount of money. I begged and pleaded with him to register emacs.vi. He wouldn't take me up on it.

[jss]

The solution is obvious: Instead of moving into the Commons you should move to the Virgin Islands and get the domain before moving back to MA.