Command Line Life Partner Wanted

emj writes "Craiglist offers an interesting approach to finding a life partner , summmary: "There is a sad truth to the world today. I am part of a dying breed of people known as "shell users." ... Because there are fewer and fewer of us, I must help keep our lineage alive. I am looking for someone to help me do this. I need a woman (obviously) who is willing to raise a child with me in the method of Unix."."

hmmm...

grep -i 'single white female' /usr2/home/women/*

Re:hmmm...

grep: /usr2/home/women/*: No such file or directory

*Sniff*

Re:hmmm...

grep -i 'white female' /home/me/Desktop/women/*

1256 pictures found.

Re:hmmm...

grep -i 'asian schoolgirl' /home/me/Desktop/women/*

*error insufficient memory

Unichs?

Don't be silly. Unichs can't have children.

Re:Unichs?

They're asexual. They respawn when killed.

One things for sure

This kid will get all the chicks.

"dying breed"?

I'm not sure I agree that shell users are a dying breed. Being a young developer (25yo) I and most, if not all, my co-workers are using a shell to develop and run unit debug/trace in. I think the amount of computer users in general has gone up so merely the ratio of shell/gui users has gone down.

How they make children

who && gawk && uname && talk && date && wine && touch && unzip && strip && touch && finger && mount && fsck && more && yes; yes; more; yes; umount && make clean && sleep

Re:How they make children

9 months later, fork() and spawn()

Re:How they make children

You forgot "head".

...and "tail"

very important, that one...

Re:How they make children

who && gawk && uname && talk && date && wine && touch && unzip && strip && touch && finger && mount && fsck && more && yes; yes; more; yes; umount && make clean && sleep

See, that's just laziness. What about parallel threads, exception handling, and race conditions? ;)

A UNIX relationship...

Hmm... a relationship consisting of short, efficient and flexible commands that can be combined in interesting ways. Sounds pretty good to me. But I've only seen it work in the BDSM world.

his kids will tame him or suffer

Most people aren't command line geeks because they have no desire for that. If this person has kids and empowers them then they might become anything, but if this idea of spawning a kind of clone persists then the kids are likely to be constrained, unhappy, and ultimately failures at life.

Re:his kids will tame him or suffer

You must be a real hit at parties.

No graphical interface ...

Obviously, her looks are completely unimportant.

He almost had me going...

Until I read this: I've been known to actually turn down offers of "two chicks at the same time."

Seriously though, I'd love to see the look on two girls' faces when this guy says, "Sorry ladies, I'm looking for a vi user, and you two look like you can't even use Word."

What a poser

N.B. - on the issue of relocation. I live in a place where my income/expense ratio is proper (i.e., greater than 2:1). I'm willing to live anywhere in the world where this remains true.

As if. A real Unix geek would use a symbolic link.

reminds me of this

Reminds me of this old column by Joab Jackson [citypaper.com]:

Say you want to date a system administrator, or sysadmin for short. (And why wouldn't you? They rake in the phat bux for maintaining office computer networks.) The choice is clear: Go for someone specializing in Unix, not Windows. The Unix sysadmin may be slothful and go missing for entire weekends on a Dungeons and Dragons binge. But it's the Windows sysadmin who'll unwittingly hose you with a dangerous virus. And that's far worse.

What, you might ask, could the operating system a person chooses to spend time with possibly reveal? Everything...Windows is designed for people who don't want to spend a lot of time fooling with their computers. It simplifies tasks, giving us pretty boxes to point and click at.

...

Think about these qualities for a sec. Which would you rather have in a lover? Who would you rather have as an intimate -- someone who takes time to understand your quirks thoroughly, or someone who merely pushes your buttons whenever you malfunction? I'm not saying all Windows NT people are obedient, shallow half-wits driven only by desire for material gain. I'm just saying that if you want to fish a decent specimen from the dating pool, you might be better off starting on the Unix side.

I only see one problem...

I was quite sure that many women out there would find the ad very intriguing, until he got to the part about only using Vi. Seriously, why would you bring up your mental health conditions even before the first date?

Intelligent atheist white man seeks sweetie

Don't forget the other UNIX-y posting where an Intelligent atheist white man seeks sweetie [craigslist.org].

If he finds such a woman...

He will have to propose. I wonder if he's going to go with diamond or a token ring?

Re:Don't live in the dark ages!

A modern computing system is not one that is run from the DOS commandline

The DOS command line did not run a modern computing system not even when it was first released.

Re:Obvious Fake

I know you're joking, but its time to fight the "geeks can't get laid" stereotype.

I don't know if I'm just not in the truly geeky end of the spectrum, but certainly in the area of "professional geeks" (developers, sysadmins, network admins etc.) I know very few who are single, and most of the ones who are don't have much trouble finding women, they just can't really be bothered with the dating game.

There was once a time when geeks were kinda freaky people you'd steer clear of, but that seems to have changed as more people get computers and an Internet connection, and start to find out that we were right about it being useful all along. Sure, it's still almost impossible to explain the job of a software developer to the average computer user, but then I can't comprehend what a professional accountant must do all day.