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Linus Torvalds Moving to the Silicon Forest
Evilive writes "According to KATU News, Linus Torvalds and family will be moving to Portland, Oregon so he can oversee the Open Source Development Labs. Torvalds says he and his family will make the move after his children finish school next week. Sayeth Linus: 'The plan was to try to acclimatize and have time to grow webbed feet (although I'm told there are implants available) by moving during the summer.'"
Does that mean there will be significatly fewer articles about Transmeta?
At 10:27 PM Linux Torvalds took a crap! The crap measured 7.5" inches with a sickening green color. The color was attributed to association with hairy acne-infested hippies.
Doctors recommended Linux Torvalds take a shower to cure his condition.
Now THAT is NEWS!
Man...it's just like Jello says. There's always room for another computer.
to grow webbed feet (although I'm told there are implants available
Those aren't the only implants you'll find on the west coast.
> Torvalds says he and his family will make the move after his children finish school next week.
;)
it's finnish, not finish
have time to grow webbed feet
What's next? beak? flippers?
Is Linus evolving in to Tux?
Will MS take linux more seriously now that he is 250 miles away?
It's nerd gossip. We've got to get our celebrity entertainment from somewhere, and I don't like reading the ads in Women's Weekly. Er, I mean..
Jello Biafra:
I want to tell you a story about the last time I was in Portland.
The night before we played at the Long Goodbye.
I was walking on the street about 10:30 at night.
A lot of people go to bed around here at 10:30 at night.
And well, I was walking along when suddenly these jocks in this
bright blue pickup drove up. It had KC lights, tractor tires,
everything but the CB. It was a life-size Hot Wheels car for some dumb rich kid,
right. Well, they drove up to me
and they yelled what dumb rich kids usually yell, "Hey, faggot,"
and showered me with some water.
So, I stood there thinking, what a bunch of fuckheads and picked up a rock.
Now, I waited, walked down about a block to
where the Kentucky Fried Chicken is, on Burnside,
and sure enough they drove around again.
They said, "Hey, faggot, where's the nearest McDonald's?" I said,
"I don't know" and they squirted me again.
So I threw the rock and put a nice-size dent in their giant Hot Wheels car.
They screached to a halt in the parking lot of some department store,
who's name I don't remember, it's up the street from Fred Meyer,
and they got out their clubs and they ran after me, yelling,
"We're gonna kill you, you god damn faggot, we're gonna kill you,
you motherfucker."
So I got in a phonebooth by the Kentucky Fried Chicken on Burnside,
held my legs straight out like this so they couldn't open the door
to the phonebooth. So they began charging the phonebooth,
beating on it with their club, yelling,
"We're gonna kill you, you motherfucker, we're gonna kill you,
you god damn faggot." I just looked at them.
So, there was a crowd gathering by this time
and these kids were standing nearby and they said,
"Oh, look at him, he's insane." I thought, ah-hah, here's my way out.
I yelled at them, "Take me to a mental hospital right away.
I wanna be be put away.
Please put me away, c'mon, call the cops and put me away.
Please put me away now."
They said, "Alright, faggot, we're calling the police." So they called the police.
The cop comes out and I go, ah, my savior, I'm away from these jocks.
He opens up the door, "Get out of there, you,"
throws me up against the car, frisks me, shoves me in the back.
Then he goes over to the jocks, "Now what happened here?
It looks like we're going have to take him to jail
but we got to have the full story first"
So the jocks, who had an ace in the hole, ace in the hole
Take down on the bass, a little bit down on the bass. Yeah,
ace in the hole, and they go, "Well, goddammit,
the motherfucker put a dent in my truck, a $5000 truck, right,
so I got my club, I went out and I wanted to kill him.
I want to kill him. Let me kill him, goddammit.
Let me kill him."
So the cop made them go home, and he drove me home,
and he confiscated their club and my rock as further evidence.
And I thought, so this is Oregon, huh? Tolerent Oregon?
Ray, are you done with your guitar yet? He isn't done yet.
So what else do you want to hear, I'm out of stories.
That's a true story, too. Just ask Bruce Loose.
Torvalds says he and his family will make the move ... next week
I'm going camping then so no, he may NOT borrow my truck.
Thanks to global warming, most Portland citizens have evolved human feet now, as opposed to the fins and flippers usually associated with us...
"Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space..."
If we follow LT's average location over the last 10 years it is clearly tending towards ... Redmond, WA. The implications
of this do not bear thinking on.
Maybe once he's arrived, he can pop round to Mentor Graphics and have a chat with them about making their tools run on something more recent than Redhat 7.1.
Evil people are out to get you.
Yes, New Jersey. (flush)
What is with all these stupid 'Silicon' names?
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Portland is probably more familiar to someone from Finland than most of California, too
You say that like it's a good thing.
I've never figured out the immigration patterns of the Northmen. They get off the boat in NYC and can go anywhere in the US from there. Florida, SoCal, Arizona, or even just stay in southern NY. Where do they go? Minnesota.
Feels like home I guess, but to my mind that's the problem.
KFG
ya, f u cn rd tht, u r prbbly a gd spllr.
I am still recovering from the death of Ronald Reagan but hearing that Linus is moving really helps lift my spirits.
Hopefully we'll see a story on slashdot when he changes his car.
If a parse tree falls in Silicon Forest and no one is around, does it leave a log file?
Unknown host pong.
Hey, now his coding will improve! He'll have Pizza Schmizza!
You know, this is really just an example of my own ignorance/stupidity - but I guess I've just always figured that hardcore geeks like Linus wouldn't have kids since they demand so much attention.
"Daddy daddy! Come look at the bug I found!"
"Bug? What bug? My system is perf... ohhhh THAT kind of bug. Not right now, sweetie - daddy's compiling."
Owch! Two -1 Troll mods. Them Oregoners sure take thing personally. I guess there aren't any Dead Kennedys fans with mod points around tonight. Here's a link to the actual lyrics.
;)
I'm from West Virginia. I just don't know what I'd do if someone were to make jokes about my state. Probably break down and cry like these pussy northwestern boys.
Quit telling people how great it is here... we have enough people already and do not need more!
Oregon SUCKS, SUCKS I tell you. It rains ALL the time here. You'll forget what blue sky looks like. Housing prices are insane. Traffic is insane. We have rattlesnakes and bears, BEARS! The women are FAT and ugly unwashed hippes with long braided armpit hair. The rare cutie knows how rare she is and has an attitude to match.
No sir, nothing to see here... move along... move along please...
Linus is moving too close to the dark side...
from that distance, 'embrace and extend' can be dangerous.
Slashdot today announced a new topic: Stalking Linus
A Multiplayer Strategy Game for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux
welcome our webfooted overlords....
Torvalds says he and his family will make the move after his children finish school next week
Shouldn't that be Finnish school?
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Please tip your servers.
I think it's time to ask yourself: do you drink because you have psychochics up your yarbles, or do you have psychochics up your yarbles because you drink?
I'm just sayin'.
I've lived in Oregon all my life but for college, so here's my insider's view of the self-serve issue.
1) Oregonians are cheap.
2) Oregonians are tired of being rained on.
So, basically, people here knew that if there was self-serve gas, they'd have to use it because it was cheaper. But then they'd get wet. So it's easier to outlaw self-serve, so everyone has to share the same luxury.
Makes complete sense if you've lived here long enough.
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Another thing that I'm sure is on Linus' mind (or at least Tove's mind) is that Portland is typically thought of a better area to raise children then SoCal.
I mean hey, I turned out fine.... er.. bad example.
Whatever you have to say about Seattle, it by far pales in comparison with California which pales in comparison to the East Coast. Having moved to Seattle about 3 years ago (from New York) I am still amazed how easy it is to convince people to get work done. Of course, none of these compare to my all-time favorite place to get work done: Montana. You don't need to even tell people to get work done there, they figure it out for themselves (quite possibly because they don't want to get caught up in the other two major occupations in the state: mining and farming/ranching).
If we make sure to keep him dry at all times. After all, old Oregonians don't die, the just rust away.
Why do I have this? I don't smoke.
Big, slimy, spotted banana slugs. You will watch where you sit after one experience.
Why do I have this? I don't smoke.
that's one more job filled here that didn't go to me. If you're going to send people up to the Pacific Northwest send up unskilled folks so I can compete. For example, that Encyclopedia Britannica kid won't cramp my style one bit. Send him up instead.
The cop who took me down there [...] swore that he'd never seen more white trash than in Portland.
Hey, careful. You insult our hometown like that, and we'll send local celeb Tonya Harding around to break your kneecaps.
Oh, wait. Gee, I guess you're right after all.
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd
Currently im writing this from downtown San Diego and its 64 and dry (10.58pm PST). The fact that 90% of the people cannot afford homes is irrelevant though ;-)
Here's a hint: don't store valuables in your mailbox. Inside your house, especially a safe, is a better location.
The first time? Oh, then you found your way around, and started spending more the other times, right?
Seriously, when I lived there, I'd get Amazon recommendations, then search the Powell's website to get a better price for used books, call them to have the books all collected at one store, then went and bought them regularly, downtown, after making sure they were in good condition (they usually were). Amazon was probably delighted to see me move home to Texas.
I can remember struggling back up Burnside with a double-bagged sack of books, feeling worried that I was an easy target for the weirdos who hung out just around 405... I shouldn't have bothered. Can't spend books, and probably knew in a glance I was newly broke
Get off my launchpad!
As a bit of a plant addict, I can tell you that rain is one of the BEST THINGS in the world when you're trying to get a good crop of pretty much ANYTHING tasty growing. Oops - shouting - sorry!
If you got warm & wet you dont need sunny for the majority of interesting plants - fruit excepted in most cases. Just so long as its not too windy! I hate wind! If I could impose a global wind limit I would - fuck global climate controls - just stop the damn wind! I cant hear myself think!!!!
And you don't have to pump your own gas.
.... um, for most normal people that should be...
*cough* *cough*
You're not allowed to pump your own gas.
Sheesh!
I guess that's the philosophy behind the Portland Rain Festival.
Let's see, that runs from September 30th through September 1st every year, doesn't it?
I'm time traveling, right now
and the first thing people asked me was "Where did you move from?" Turns out any answer other than "California" is acceptable.
Linus should tell people he's moving there from Europe. It's a safe answer!
--Rob