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forgetting my UNIX

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2015.02.13

I'm slipping; I went to null a file by copying /dev/null to it, and took about five seconds to remember /dev/null. I guess a decade plus out of technical work will do that to you.

rand()m quote

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

—-Antoine de Saint Exupery