unix personified.
© 1998 Jamie Zawinski
<jwz@jwz.org>
There used to be a stand-up arcade game called
Block-Out which was a 3D version of
Tetris; you looked down on the stack of blocks, and rotated and
dropped wireframes in three-space. But that's
not the point.
The point is that when a round of the game ended, this big
computer- and my personal favorite, in the true Unix spirit of fixed-size buffers,
So now whenever Unix shafts me, I get an
image of this giant, angry, polygon-faceted Oz-head
guy, yelling at me with way too much
reverb.
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