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Luke: "You used to program."
Ben: "I was once a software engineer the same as your father."
Luke: "My father wasn't a software engineer. He was a custodian at Lockheed-Martin."
Ben: "That's what your Uncle told you. He didn't hold with your father's ideals. He thought he should go to work. Not gotten a degree."
Luke: "I wish I had known him."
Ben: "He was a cunning object-oriented analyst, and the best systems programmer in the galaxy. I understand you've become quite a good hacker yourself. And he was a good friend. For over ten years the systems programmers created user interfaces. Before the dark times. Before Microsoft."
Luke: "How did my father die?"
Ben: "A young systems programmer named Bill Gates, who was a student until his mommy kicked him out of her basement, founded Microsoft and helped destroy the intuitive user interface. He betrayed and murdered the Macintosh. Gates was seduced by the Dark Side of Money."
Luke: "Money?"
Ben: "Yes, Money is what gives a programmer his resources. It's an exchange system created by human beings. It surrounds us. Works for us. Binds the economy together. Which reminds me. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your Uncle wouldn't allow it. He thought you'd follow old Obi-Wan on some damn idealistic crusade."
Luke: "What is it?"
Ben: "It's an object modeling tool. The weapon of a systems programmer. Not as random or clumsy as a lexical parser. An elegant compiler for a more civilized age."
courtesy S.Whittle, GYC student 2000
There is a new virus going around, called "work". If you receive any sort of work at all, whether via e-mail, internet, through the mail, or simply handed to you by a colleague ..... DO NOT OPEN IT.
Work has been circulating around our building for months and those who have been tempted to open work or even look at work have found that their social life is deleted and their brain ceases to function properly.
If you do encounter work via e-mail or are faced with any work at all, then to purge the virus by getting rid of all work, send an e-mail to your boss or colleagues or public or ... who ever - with the words "sorry..... I'm going home".
The work should automatically be deleted from your brain. I have got rid of work out of my brain
If you receive work in paper-document form, simply lift the document and drag the work to your garbage can. ..... DO NOT OPEN IT.
Work has been known to be contagious as well as infectious
It is advisable to avoid computers and people with the work virus. Avoid corruption.
courtesy S.Whittle, GYC student 2000
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