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Muchaos, and Muchchas: Mythical Month Man on Missing Metaphor (from today's 'fortune' cookie)


The so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead an
"airplane-seat" metaphor.  Anyone who has shuffled a lap full of papers
while
seated between two portly passengers will recognize the difference --
one can
see only a very few things at once.

  -- Fred Brooks, Jr.

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Yet one more reason to lose weight (and wait, i.e., transition from
Cygwin to Linux).

--

Me, of Merry Meeting, in Merrimack



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