Valentine’s Day for Nerds

by philg

Happy Valentine’s Day to those who celebrate.

Here’s a photo from 2013 (Reagan National Airport): “You are the CSS to my HTML”.

This is the year that we say Happy 30th Anniversary to the CSS/HTML couple. CSS goes back to 1996 (first standardized) and HTML to 1990.

12 thoughts on “Valentine’s Day for Nerds”

  1. My wife is a sysadmin, and she gave me a “Code Ruby, Be Happy!” t-shirt. She also tried to give me a “Slurm” (supercomputer management software) shirt, but it was too small. Her thinking, apparently, is for the shirts to repel other women. We don’t celebrate because she opposes re-badged Pagan holidays. But really, every day is Valentine’s Day in our house. She made me a special brunch this morning. And just last fall, I picked her a bouquet of miniature roses from the HOA grounds.

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    • I just asked the wife if she knew it was Valentine’s Day, and she said “Oh, I wouldn’t know. Wasn’t that holiday based on a ancient flagellation ritual?” No chocolates for me again this year. She said that she went to the store without makeup, wearing the Slurm shirt, a big floppy hat, and sunglasses. The first nerdy guy she saw said, “Oh, hi! Are you a Futurama fan too?” She said she gave him a mean look an stared at the floor. I once wore my “Citation V” parting gift t-shirt to a motorcycle accessory store in Colorado and the female clerk said, “Oh those are cool. A little down-scale, but cool. My dad flys on Gulfstreams.” Happy V-Day.

    • “Slurm” is a fictional soft drink in the world of Futurama. Being both popular and highly addictive, Slurm is a major element of Earth’s culture. It’s Fry’s favorite drink and is widely seen throughout the Futurama universe. Its slogan “It’s Highly Addictive!” was fronted by Slurms McKenzie until his tragic death.

      So it’s even nerdier than supercomputer management software?

    • From Wikipedia:

      > The Slurm Workload Manager, formerly known as Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management, or simply Slurm

      Slurm the software is a backronym taken from Slurm the drink, so therefore equivalent according to Nerd Theory. I’ve met many aircraft nerds, but few female ones, and fewer still ladies that flirted with me about the subject. I just had the shirt on because I was working on my motorcycle, and didn’t care if it got ripped or greasy. We talked about meeting up for a motocross date, but never did.

  2. That was the beginning of the end of the happy time. Then the future was Java in the browser. Then it was javascript.

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    • > That was the beginning of the end of the happy time

      And the elephant in the room, AI, practically ensures us living in the reign of Sauron in Mordor.

      Valentine’s Day, Christmas, the WWW, AI, all sabotaged by marketers and suits.

      “There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?” — The Graduate

    • Javascript in browser is fat client architecture without being called fat client architecture which is considered to be an anti-pattern by coding administrators.
      It, and what later was called ajax, evolved, including in my projects, when fat clients were banned by the folks in IT management who learned names of common software patterns and read IT management magazines and who also were saving on server hardware to increase their bonus pool.

  4. Back from my “date”, she has an early bedtime of 8, plus she has to soak her dentures.

    I now have time to read Reddit r/Incels and laugh at all the nerds, then watch Matlock. All those lonely postmenopausal honeys out there, and a bunch of 20-something goons saying “I can’t get a date.” Apparently they want to have a “dating insurrection” and call Feb. 14th “Incel Day”.

    Later on nerds.

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