For the Geek at Heart
This afternoon, because I was bored, I imagined having a conversation with someone who didn't understand the xkcd comic "Sandwich."
So I explained the sudo command and when it might be used, and how it was kind of a Unix inside joke, although Apple may have opened things up a bit having Unix as the core of MacOS X.
Then my imaginary listener floored me by asking, "Okay, I get the part about sudo, but why is it funny?"
After thinking it over a bit, I realized that it was actually a pretty good question. And so in my imaginary conversation, I pontificated on how the comic subtly and poignantly expresses the unrealizable desire to have complete control over one's entire surroundings, and threw in a bit about how it is representative of the attitude of our geek-slacker instant-gratification generation.
Deep, eh? My imaginary listener thought so.
Now, make me a sandwich.
So I explained the sudo command and when it might be used, and how it was kind of a Unix inside joke, although Apple may have opened things up a bit having Unix as the core of MacOS X.
Then my imaginary listener floored me by asking, "Okay, I get the part about sudo, but why is it funny?"
After thinking it over a bit, I realized that it was actually a pretty good question. And so in my imaginary conversation, I pontificated on how the comic subtly and poignantly expresses the unrealizable desire to have complete control over one's entire surroundings, and threw in a bit about how it is representative of the attitude of our geek-slacker instant-gratification generation.
Deep, eh? My imaginary listener thought so.
Now, make me a sandwich.
