Maybe nerds do need slappin'
Oct. 5th, 2003 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avramA typical Unix distro has a bunch of files for use with the calendar program — lists of historical events, holidays, etc. I’ve got my web browser home page set to show me today’s events and holidays, which is how I learned that calendar.history also contains events from Lord of the Rings.
I don’t mean real events, like the date The Two Towers was published, but fictional events, like the date Frodo crossed the Mitheithel. When I was a teenager I probably would have thought this was cute and clever, but now it makes me want to just find the responsible person and ask what other parts of my operating system he might have worked on while stoned.
I don’t mean real events, like the date The Two Towers was published, but fictional events, like the date Frodo crossed the Mitheithel. When I was a teenager I probably would have thought this was cute and clever, but now it makes me want to just find the responsible person and ask what other parts of my operating system he might have worked on while stoned.
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Date: 2003-10-05 09:30 am (UTC)A bit of historical digging seems to reveal that this was added to BSD sometime between the release of 4.3BSD in 1984 and 4.3BSD-Reno in 1990. If that helps you figure out who needs slapping.