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 (13 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

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

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