Friday afternoon funnies

As a beautiful (if you're in Sydney) Friday afternoon settles in we can all look forward to a quiet ale or three down at the pub, with a bloody brilliant piece from TheDudEfRoMaREs. This is starting to become routine - a good story from the front lines with the BOFH & PFY, then a marvelous bit of psychadelic mind-candy from the outer solar system. The latest sport is meta-conspiracy theories on where thedudefromares comes from:

1. "Either that or he is a crazed hobo who stole a laptop and dropped some LSD". Yep, score that.

2. He's this guy: http://www.timecube.com/

3. AI gone rouge - unlikely. Read a bit about AI; it is stupefyingly complex, and is still trying to model something that is poorly understood at best (consciousness), asuming it isn't all quantum. Which it might be. Or not.

4. Someone who beleives the 'Matrix' trilogy was a documentary, and hangs on every word William Gibson writes. Actually, having just read 'Accelerando' by Charles Stross, there's some simialrities to AINeko, too. Either way, tin-foil hat brigade; believes the Lizard Armies of the Queen and G.Dubya paid the Nazis secretly living in Antarctica to cause 9/11, or that Teh Intarwebs is a conspiracy by Xenu to enslave us all!

5. Someone who reads a lot instead of actually working, spending most days surfing between Wikipedia, New Scientist and various other technology boards and forums. Government worker, anyone else would hopefulyl 'let them go'. Seems to be seeking attention, especially with the 1337 StudLy CaPs Stylee. Typing like this just makes you look like you're a 14yr old script kiddie.

6. http://support.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=amanfrommars - note the birthday - same as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chernin - bigwig at NewsCorp. Conspiracy theories anyone?

7. http://www.monashreport.com/2007/07/09/revolutionary-trends-in-the-analytics-market/ - okay, now we're getting somewhere. A database forum... hmm, I've had to try to er, "persuade" a modern parametric CAD/BIM package drive a bloatasaurus SAP backend. I came out gibbering like this after only 2 months - but I had the good sense to quit that job! (The client keep wheeling out dusty guys in grey coats who looked like they had just seen sunlight for the first time in 15 years to tell us that, no, not ALL products used a 8-alphanumeric code, and that they updated the SAP lookup tables BY HAND; for a national supermarket chain...aaaiiiieeeeee my mind's going Dave! Daisy! Daisy!)

8. http://news.com.com/5208-1007_3-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=29096&messageID=289483&start=0 - note the interplay between various posters including thedudefromares, notably Commander_Spock. There are *more* of them out there? I've got a bad feeling about this... they're bloody philosophy doctorate students trying to semantically mindfrotz the Internet!

This guy/gal/thing is clearly angling for their own column in The Reg, or a guest celebrity take-down from the BOFH; neither of which he/she/it/they deserves.