Faust and the Inventor of Ping
I am Faust. Don’t you hate it when you really really identify with these tragic and doomed literary characters? Sorry, how presumptuous of me…ok I’m the “dude” or “lay person” version of Faust, maybe not quite as learned and academic and whatnot. I did drop out of grad school. But this whacky puppet show at The Center For Puppetry Arts, has got me identifying with cranky old sell-out, despite the moral of the story and all. They put on a good and over the top adaptation of the classic story of what it means to be an indie rock band and court the majors…I mean, what wouldn’t you do for all the knowledge in the universe? It was a very comical, to say the least, and when Faust gets a DSL line installed in his brain by Satan’s Little Helper, Scratch, I just about lost it.
So go see it, if your in the ATL that is, and see Proof while your at it. It blows away A Beautiful Mind, which is not worthy of hypertext in my meager opinion. But you better hurry, both end this weekend or thereabouts.
I really wanted to talk GEEK today, you know. All about the BSD kernel or TCP or some other worthy topic but I realized I probably don’t know enough to start blabing and would incur the wrath of millions of internet critics if I did. And then I’d have to go Jay and Silent Bob on all their asses and that’s just too much. So I will say that in searching for something, I don’t know what but I think it had something to do with Cygwin, the unix environment for windows, I came across this dude:
Meet Mike, the guy who invented ping.
Ping is the tool of choice (and perhaps only tool) for so many inept tech support droids across the nation.
What have you done for cyberspace lately?