Fireduck

2004.05.16.23.09.38

Last night I exhorted some friends who were about to go off into the real world to do something actual importance with their lives, rather than just working for a living. For a definition of "real world" see this from FreeBSD fortune:

Real World, The n.:
1. In programming, those institutions at which programming may be used in the same sentence as FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG, IBM, etc. 2. To programmers, the location of non-programmers and activities not related to programming. 3. A universe in which the standard dress is shirt and tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5. 4. The location of the status quo. 5. Anywhere outside a university. "Poor fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the real world." Used pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, talking of someone who has entered the real world is not unlike talking about a deceased person.

These friends in question had graduated and were about to leave town to do other things. I think I will try to follow my own advise. Towards this end, I am going to write up some of the projects I have been kicking around in my head and put them up on ye old net. As the linux leftys would call it to "open source them". Maybe that way I can attract some cohorts.

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