Dork Side of the Moon

By: The Internet Oracle (#968-08)
Original: "Dark Side of the Moon" (Pink Floyd)

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:

O masterifrivorubiquitious Oracle,

What did they mean "Dork side of the Moon"?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

Pathetic geeks are in the lab
Pathetic geeks are in the lab
They're playing "Quake" and hacking "Perl" and "C"
Got to keep the cola flowing free

Pathetic geeks are in the house
Pathetic geeks are in my house
The paper trays are spilling docos on the floor
And every day the FSF writes more

And if your script terminates many lines too soon
And if compilers trample on your stack
And if your disk overflows with 8 Meg coredumps too
I'll see you on the dork side of the moon

Six hundred lines of crufty code
Six hundred lines of crufty code
You mount the disk, you parse the list
You crash and burn until I'm pissed
You hog the core
And threaten sanity
Someone could maintain this code, but it ain#39;t me

And if your newsfeed dumps some spam into your spool
And if you write in COBOL like a fool
And if your boss says "Make it run on Win NT"
I'll see you on the dork side of the moon

You owe the oracle a rare red vinyl copy of the 1979 album "Pink
Floyd's Very Yiddish Hanukkah."

Last update: 25 July 2003
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