[geeks] Cool Register article on the origins of vi and Bill Joy

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:42:07AM -0700, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> --- Caleb Shay <caleb at webninja.com> wrote:
> > If I recall correctly, that quote originates from one of our own
> > geeks@ members.
> 
> Yes, but his name escapes me... He was a great odd bird - prefered tty
> to GUI, is a postscript hacker, and lived in RI and is part of a great
> computer history group, with lots of wonderful old "toys"...

David Fischer.  I miss him.  He really rocked.

His dropping out of college form
(http://www.cca.org/dave/personal/hamp.txt) is brilliant:
Azathoth, the blind idiot god that bubbles and blasphemes in the
center of the universe came to me with a mad non-diatonic piping
that made my bones tremble with the horror of a forgotten past
buried centuries ago, and told me to go on leave.

In the taste of the air, in the sound of the wind, 
   Hastur tells me to leave.
In the stagnent pools and the crashing waves, 
   great Cthulhu tells me to leave.
In the form and reality of everything around me, 
   Yog-Sothoth tells me to leave.
In the non-form and chaos of everything around me, 
   Eris tells me to leave.

As Grandma always used to say, "Don't fuck with the Elder Gods".

Sigh.  There aren't enough people in the world who can submit such paper
work with a straight face.