Yes I know it’s a bit old, but I stumbled on it again and couldn’t resist because it seems to provoke some kind of nerdgasm amongst techies. Funny as hell and incredibly well done.
Also enjoy a HN thread pertaining to this video, to get an idea of how the crowd reacted when this video popped up.
I’ve yet to see a keyboard that beats this one at least at one category that mater in keyboards, sound, feeling, mechanics or endurance. This model has it all. However, the original produced by IBM is not in production anymore, but rest assured, since a company named Unicomp purchased the rights and still produces this famous Model M, along with other cool keyboards. However, since the keyboards are so enduring and high quality, their business does not run that well and to quote from Wikipedia article on IBM Model M:
Unicomp has had difficulty making them profitable because they rarely break, and most retailers will not stock such an expensive keyboard.
Priceless.
“Kill Dash Nine” is a tech rap or Nerdcore/Geeksta piece, as it’s known lately, song performed by Monzy. Here’s a live performance shot outside Stanford University’s Computer Science building:
The song as a whole is not that great, but the lyrics are geeky enough. A couple of juicy verses:
I'll chown your home and take your access away Comin' straight outta Stanford, ain't nobody tougher, Control-X, Control-C, I'll discard your fuckin' buffer. You're outside your scope, son, close them curly brackets, 'Cause I drop punk-ass bitches like a modem drops packets.You're the tertiary storage; I'm the L1 cache.With my finger on the trigger I run ./configure Yo, this package is big, but MY package is bigger.And I do a bounds check before I write to an array.
Mp3 and full Lyrics here.
“My flow is so intense, I’ll overload your buffer, corrupt your stack pointer, making all your data suffer.”
Do I seem bored? 🙂
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