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>Abby Franquemont-Guillory (abbyfg@tezcat.com) posted:
> [Unix.Barbie story]
>ROTFLMAO! I love it! I think we should petition (Mattel?) to really
>release something like this... and imagine the other versions:
I wish they would. I really really do. Better yet, I wish they would
have when I was a girl, as perhaps those relatives ho insisted upon
giving me dolls would have had dolls to give me that I had any interest
in. Especially ones that come with their own full sets of O'Reilly
books. As for what became of me because there was no Hacker Barbie,
well, I say we blame my grandfather, who gave me weird science books and
instructions for taking apart anything I could get my hands on, and never
once suggested that I might rather have had a pink and frilly dress.
Why, perhaps if there had been Hacker Barbie, then I might have had some
other kind of reinforcement for those urges, and known better than to
start high school in the first place, and I could have decades of
experience already, and ... and.... be overqualified for any job I
applied for, or something....
>BarbieDOS vs. 1.0
Yes indeedy.... myself I like Doom-playing Barbie.... with her Malibu
Dream WAD and suchlike....
>Barbie v. 1.2 for Windows
Yes, but this one never works properly. And that conventional memory
limitation means that after you throw it in the toybox, it can't be
distinguished from Mathophobic Barbie...
>The Barbie NovelleNetwork LAN set
Ah, now you're talking. Comes complete with tools for deleting bad print
jobs for Ken, who in this case can't type "nprinter" for himself, and has
to call
Help Desk Barbie, who logs the call into a database, assigns a service
request number, and fields it out to
PC Specialist Barbie, who takes a cigarette break, curses about the
entire situation, and, stopping on the way to get coffee, proceeds to go
call upon Ken at his desk, only to be waylaid in the elevator by
MIS Management Barbie, whose suit looks perfect, and points out to PC
Specialist Barbie that she will be working all weekend because she has to
reconduct the inventory that takes three weeks to conduct, but they start
again every two weeks.
Anyway, once Ken's print queue is cleared, PC Specialist Barbie is able
to become enraged because Help Desk Barbie should have known to pass that
call to Tech Support Barbie if she couldn't handle it herself. Help Desk
barbie, of course, is furious, because after all, she didn't get the
Novell LAN kit, and doesn't have the proper access, so how could she be
expected to handle that anyway?
Of course, this gets brought up at the meeting suddenly called by MIS
Management Barbie, and starts a whole long debate about who should get to
have the passwords to do what. Tech Support Barbie stalks from the room
(having proven herself over the years she can get away with that, besides
she intimidates MIS Management Barbie, we'll see who lasts longer) when
no one listens to her reminding everyone that really, it was just that
ken had to type "nprinter" and delete his own bad print job from the queue.
Ah yes, I can see it now. Lucky little girls will have all the above
Barbies, and of cours Barbie's Malibu Dream MIS Department, complete with
obsolete computer room filled with mainframes and surrounded by teeny
cubicles too cramped for Barbies, which of course drives them all out to
the Malibu Happy Hour, or else to just get completely soused on the
commuter train...
Ugh. Far too much realism.
But I do like the Hacker Barbie concept, though.
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