incumbenthero ([info]incumbenthero) wrote,
@ 2007-05-08 19:55:00
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Current mood: IM WITH FAMOUS

The Internets
Sometimes I don't understand the intertubes. A good friend of mine Jessamyn is a the most famous person I know. How many people do YOU know on Wikipedia? Anyways.. so she goes out to this library.. and is all.. HURF DURF WINDOWS 2000 CD KEY GRR about some computers that were donated without software. We go back and forth a little bit, and somehow Ubuntu came up.. my grandeous idea was the Linux Terminal Server Project blah blah... but Jessamyn just installs Ubuntu. She also records it with her macbook. Now thats cool and all.. but it fucking explodes on the intertubes this afternoon.

First Cathy over at the SevenDays 802 Online Corporate Sell-your-soul blog posts it as TODAYS VERMONT VIDEO OF THE DAY. Then BoingBoing picks it up on their front page. From there the brushfire tapers out.. and its now listed on like 50,000 blogs.

Its a fucking video of someone installing UBUNTU! Ground breaking.. I know!

Anyways.. its a super well done video.. and I love Jessamyn's enthusiasm and energy.. but gimme a break.. why is this catching like wildfire?

I had dinner tonight with Ms. Jessamyn West, Folk Hero:

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We discussed the digital divide, and how this hasn't made it anywhere off from the internets into the real world in Vermont. We also had awesome food.

OH MY FUCKING GOD. So Ubuntu apparently just *called* the Folk Hero, and interviewed her or something, and in sending her 300 Ubuntu CD's to further the cause. This never ends.. hahah.


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[info]sdn
2007-05-09 12:44 am UTC (link)
thank you for this. i am jessamyn's friend also and i am amused that she is INTERNET FOLK HERO JESSAMYN.

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from the corporate suck-dog
(Anonymous)
2007-05-09 01:42 am UTC (link)
Ok, so my blog is corporate, because it's got ads and a logo, blah blah blah. But it's not a sell-your-soul kind of corporate. You should see our office. Way too messy to be a sell-your-soul kind of place.

That's awesome about Jessamyn getting CDs from Ubuntu! She's my hero.
--Cathy from 802 Online

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Re: from the corporate suck-dog
[info]incumbenthero
2007-05-09 04:16 am UTC (link)
Your blog is corporate because you get paid to blog! :). It wasn't derogatory, just an over descriptive noun. I wouldn't have drempt in a million years you would have stumbled upon this!

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Re: from the corporate suck-dog
(Anonymous)
2007-05-09 01:14 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, referral logs are cool that way. I saw your blog in there and had never heard of it so I checked it out. I should add you to my list o' Vermont blogs.
--cresmer

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[info]goldmineguttd
2007-05-09 01:46 am UTC (link)
pssssh she didn't install Dvorak keyboards no fun.

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wondering what today's installation will be
(Anonymous)
2007-05-09 03:44 pm UTC (link)
I followed the developments via Twitter, but I love your recap and the 'I'm with famous'. Judith (http://becomingalibrarian.blogspot.com/)

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[info]beagley
2007-05-10 12:38 pm UTC (link)
First: Sweet! Famous! If it makes you feel any better, I saw that tag on BoingBoing and pretty much ignored it cause I don't really care all that much about Linux proliferation.

Second: LTSP rules! You just earned eighty-bazillion geek points in my geek point book. We use LTSP at a few of our client offices (pediatricians), and I had to write a manual for the interface once because it was too complicated for all them Windows 98 users to make the transition (sigh!).

Heh heh... I just realized that my LTSP manual is still online: http://learn.pcc.com/ltspuser.html
My writing was a little bit crappier back then.

-d

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(Anonymous)
2007-09-04 03:33 pm UTC (link)
Stan, these things happen to Jessamyn because she has folk hero in her genes. Think about it. Her uncle is a counter culture folk hero and her dad is a computer science folk hero. Her mom keeps a low profile but I always assumed she was textbook folk hero (literally). Regardless, I know exactly how you feel. But it was a REALLY good ubuntu install video.

A

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