The ratios have to keep working out to 1 to 1.
That's my problem.
This is my Achilles' heel.
You consume a world to save a world in this mechanism.
All right.
"Hackers Can Sidejack Cookies."
This is a kind of collage-homage to a couple of guys,
but especially to Guy L. Steele, who
wrote the original Hacker's Dictionary
under another rubric.
It was a jargon file for nerds at MIT in the days
when a lot of the online and computer stuff
was being developed.
And it was this sub-world jargon file
that got passed around of the names
that they invented for what were new devices and methods.
And the names are amazing.
This Guy L. Steele really has a place in my reverential field.
I hope he never sues me for taking these things out
of his dictionary.
As far as I can tell, this whole new world order
means I don't have to worry about copyright.
[LAUGHTER]
So I even mentioned Eric S. Raymond, who
did the Revised Hacker's Dictionary,
And he did the same thing I'm doing, I think,
so I don't know why I bother to mention him, but I'm worried.
[LAUGHTER]
"Hackers Can Sidejack Cookies."
To them, all the credit.
Although, I'm a good selector.
I'm a Googler par excellence.
Because not everything that's entered in a dictionary
is of interest, but these things are great.
A beige toaster is a maggotbox.
I have no idea what any of this means, I want you to know.
I'm not really interested in meaning.
[LAUGHTER]
Get that.
Get past that.
A beige toaster is a maggotbox.
A bit bucket is a data sink.
Farkled gold is a synonym for hosed.
Flamage is a weenie problem.
I know what that one means.
[LAUGHTER]
I have a feeling for that one.
A berserker wizard gets no score for treasure.
I think many of you know what that means.
In MUDs one acknowledges a bonk with an oif.
There is a cosmic bonk/oif balance.
A back door is a logic bomb.
A buttonhook is a hunchback.
Ooblick is play sludge.
There were published bang paths 10 hops long.
Designs succumbing to creeping featuritis are banana problems.
I know how to spell banana, but I don't know when to stop.
Before you reconfigure, mount a scratch monkey.
A dogcow makes a moof.
An aliasing bug can smack the stack.
Who wrote these tunes, these runes
you need black art to parse?
Don't think it's only genius--
flaming-- humor-- dry, a briefcase of cerebral dust.
A hat's a swung dash, but the daughter of the programmer
has got her period, and that is serious.
It's all about wetware at last, and wetware lives
in meat space.
[LAUGHTER]
Now, those guys knew something, even as they
were doing the unknowable.