THERE BE OO HERE.

December 15, 2004 10:01 PM

The Vision. The Longing. The Confusion. The Claim. One of my favorites from back in the day.
posted by pieoverdone (16 comments total)

Uh-huh.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 10:24 PM on December 15, 2004

Oo.Kk. ...
posted by numlok at 10:27 PM on December 15, 2004

The Idiot
posted by reflection at 10:41 PM on December 15, 2004

This pretty much sums it up
posted by jimray at 10:41 PM on December 15, 2004

The mystery deepens: alcyone.com is registered to one Erik Max Francis. Considering how impressed he is that he's been on teh intarweb since 1995, I deduced that he must have been a Usenet dork back when AOL users were just starting to ruin the whole thing. I was richly rewarded with a long posting history including the use of "oo" to mean TWO things:

* Infinity
* Object-oriented programming

It seems our boy is a well-enough rounded nerd to opine about pedestrian limits problems for the better part of a decade, while also whinging about PERL's lousy oo.

And let's not forget Big-O Notation, (or "Goatse man notation" as we call it 'round my office).

The question is why we should care.
posted by jewzilla at 10:43 PM on December 15, 2004

I need a blunt to get this shiat...
posted by arse_hat at 10:45 PM on December 15, 2004

I'm getting old... DAMMIT!
posted by arse_hat at 10:48 PM on December 15, 2004

Just fucking explain it.
posted by McBain at 10:50 PM on December 15, 2004

grandpa arse_hat, tell us a story!
posted by Darkman at 10:57 PM on December 15, 2004

Darkman - why back in the day we had to walk 6 miles in a driving snow storm to get coal to fire up the commodore 64 to access The Source @ 300 baud and then...
posted by arse_hat at 11:04 PM on December 15, 2004

heh.
posted by ..ooOOoo....ooOOoo.. at 11:10 PM on December 15, 2004

I was richly rewarded

The advanced search works better. 14,600 posts from author:"Erik Max Francis" sorted by date.

I also seem to have found a gnarly looking bug in the new google groups.

I might not be digging deep enough, and assuming it is the same author (the topics throughout the years seem consistent), this would be his first of many, many usenet posts on May 29, 1992. Why do I care? I don't. But searching is fun.
posted by reflection at 11:22 PM on December 15, 2004

And damn. Those were the days when you included your mailing address in your sig.
posted by reflection at 11:23 PM on December 15, 2004

Those were the days when you included your mailing address in your sig.

Not us 'leet kids.

*Reminisces when elite actually meant something...*
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 2:56 AM on December 16, 2004

Previously brought to you by (who else?) Settle, who flashed across the face of MeFi for a couple of months in 2002 before being shot down by cruel men without an ounce of mad poetry in their souls.
posted by languagehat at 5:02 AM on December 16, 2004

o<
posted by jimmy at 7:00 PM on December 16, 2004