Jessamyn Installs Ubuntu

May 8, 2007 11:55 AM

Jessamyn installs Ubuntu on donated library computers. Film at 11 (or at least the post from BoingBoing) P.S. Folk hero?
posted by filmgeek to MetaFilter-Related at 11:55 AM (28 comments total)

So we heard, fg.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:58 AM on May 8, 2007

If it's a double, who will delete it?

Is it an existential problem for Jessamyn to delete a post about herself? Are Matt and Cortex too much the gentlemen?

Let's watch.
posted by mmahaffie at 12:06 PM on May 8, 2007

Folk Hero.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 12:07 PM on May 8, 2007 [2 favorites]

Did you all see that Jessamyn herself showed up. In the thread! Sidebar!
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 12:09 PM on May 8, 2007 [5 favorites]

Folk hero

That calls for a song... The Ballad of Jessamyn West.

But I don't know that I can rhyme "ubuntu."
posted by mmahaffie at 12:14 PM on May 8, 2007

Oh doon't you?
posted by cortex (staff) at 12:19 PM on May 8, 2007 [2 favorites]

But can she get it running on a dead badger?
posted by Abiezer at 12:19 PM on May 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

Huh. I've spent a lot of time on MeFi today but somehow saw this first on BoingBoing. At least I know if jessamyn's ever on MythBusters, I'll see it here first. And second. And third. And fourth.
posted by veggieboy at 12:34 PM on May 8, 2007

You pun too?

Ooh! Fun to do!
posted by quin at 12:39 PM on May 8, 2007

pfff! I'll recommend a sidebar when she installs gentoo.
posted by shmegegge at 1:03 PM on May 8, 2007

I was watching a marathon of Mythbusters, and saw Jessamyn taped to the back wall.
posted by Dizzy at 1:06 PM on May 8, 2007 [5 favorites]

(tell me what "preview" is for again?)
posted by Dizzy at 1:07 PM on May 8, 2007

Would this be a good time to mention that there was a masking tape "MeFi" on the Mythbusters marathon recently?
posted by languagehat at 1:12 PM on May 8, 2007

C'mon punsters, I still need a chorus....
posted by mmahaffie at 1:25 PM on May 8, 2007

So now that her computers speak Ubuntu, they can be protocol droids. Cool.
posted by Mister_A at 1:41 PM on May 8, 2007

You cunt you?
posted by vronsky at 1:57 PM on May 8, 2007

Could really have done with less of the <pornstar> does <noun> vibe from the wording of that post.
posted by Rhomboid at 3:21 PM on May 8, 2007

Did she use Edubuntu?
posted by potch at 3:29 PM on May 8, 2007

Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Jessamyn's a librarian?
posted by Pastabagel at 5:04 PM on May 8, 2007

I like both posts. Anyone up for an AskMe post about this?
posted by caddis at 5:15 PM on May 8, 2007

Would this be a good time to mention that there was a masking tape "MeFi" on the Mythbusters marathon recently?

hey, did you guys hear about that world-famous violinist who was playing for tips in the dc metro and almost nobody stopped to listen?
posted by sergeant sandwich at 5:48 PM on May 8, 2007

I hear James Brown died.
posted by Rhomboid at 5:59 PM on May 8, 2007

Perhaps the askme post should be:

If you were installing Linix into the corpse of James Brown at a library, which would be the best distro?

Cortext does the music for the music.metafilter side.

Jess posts onto Projects for the libraries website.

Last, Her boss posts onto jobs. for a person to act as the system admin.
posted by filmgeek at 6:27 PM on May 8, 2007

shmegegge: "pfff! I'll recommend a sidebar when she installs gentoo."

Sidebar? I'd call for bannination.
posted by Plutor at 5:31 AM on May 9, 2007

</holywar>
posted by Plutor at 5:31 AM on May 9, 2007

vi > emacs
discuss.
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:30 AM on May 9, 2007

DIE YOU OBSOLETE NOGOOD SOCIALLY MALADJUSTED CELIBATE COMMIE FASCIST DORK!
posted by Zed_Lopez at 11:20 AM on May 9, 2007

i like vi. what is there to discuss?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:36 AM on May 9, 2007