[vox] Dixon Public Library Kiosk

Foo Lim vox@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 18 May 2004 10:15:13 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 18 May 2004, Richard Crawford wrote:

> Bill Kendrick said:
> > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 06:50:06AM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote:
> >>
> >> "Unix, eh?" she sniffed disdainfully.  "No one uses Unix!"
> >
> > Oy. Where to begin with how wrong that is!!!?
> 
> Not as bad as one of the other commissioners who kept staring at me the
> whole time I was talking about Unix until the District Librarian said that
> Unix is an operating system.  After the meeting she confided in me that
> she honestly thought I was talking about using eunichs to run the
> library's computers.  I had this image of a bunch of men singing soprano
> as they worked the library computers for the staff.

That was really funny!  That made my day so much better!  =)