Meet FIDO - Mascot of the FIDOnet network February 25, 2007
Posted by Dale in : Last Job, Stories , Comments
FIDO is the mascot of the FidoNet community. A sad bunch of lonely IT geeks wonderful group of community-spirited people who ran Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), networked to FidoNet. Actually, it’s rather more complicated than that. Jimbo’s Big Bag O’Trivia is your friend here.
I’m not innocent in all of this, I ran a BBS for a couple of years, out of altruistic thoughts. And the fervent hope it would pay for itself.
The only BBS systems which did pay for themselves were the one’s which hosted PRON. The only BBS I remember from those days was “Sexy Legs”, which was run by a husband and wife team. She did have a great set of legs. Never did see the pron, you had to pay for that. Being a Sysop, I was skint most of the time.
Oh, and Arcadia Opus BBS!, which
a) didn’t have pron
b) did have a great user community
c) was hosted in South Yarra.
If you’re out there Andrew Newbury, I salute you!
Work is stressing me out at the moment, seems as if I’m working 20 hour days. It’s as if the hiring criteria for a Project Manager is:
“Are you a mental deficient who has ‘not a clue’ about IT?”
Yes??? - Welcome to (not) EDS then.
And yet, according to one of my (previous) senior executives (Hi Sarah!),
“You don’t need to be a cow to know where milk comes from.”
True, but you need to know the difference between what an udder is, and the thing your stroking there Sarah. Perhaps that’s how you got the job in the first place. You certainly didn’t have any freaking idea about IT.
Saw Stranger Than Fiction, which I thought would have been a “Chick Flick”, but it had a good story & acting. Plot line has been used before.
On the home front, it seems:
a) I’m a bastard, or
b) hormone replacement therapy just ain’t working.
References:
FidoNet
Jimbo’s Big Bag O’Trivia
Sysop
Project Manager
Strange Than Fiction