Monday, March 28, 2005
Gone All Eights
Just making a quick post from work and an attempt to create a new meme.
From Merriam-Webster
Main Entry: meme
Pronunciation: 'mEm
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of mimeme, from mim- (as in mimesis) + -eme
: an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture
In a recent phone call to my cable TV provider I explained how my set top box had “gone all eights” in describing its untimely demise, the channel and time readout showing nothing but. It occurred to me that phrases like “gone all eights” or “going all eights” or “he went all eights” have a certain tech meme-appeal in describing either things or people that breakdown under stress. For those of you that are 1337 maybe “g0n 411 8s”
I did a Google search and didn’t find that it is yet in use so help me -- Larry a.k.a. DumbSwede -- spread this new meme. Hopefully we will soon see it in the jargon watch column of Wired Magazine.
My previous attempt at creating a meme seems not to have been too successful, see: Piety by Proxy however I have not completely given up on this one, perhaps someone can suggest some catchier alteration or contraction of this phrase.
BTW, I use FireFox at home to view my webpage and I've just found recent template changes have made my blog look very ugly under IE. I will have to be sure and double check template changes on both in the future. Sorry for its disgraceful appearance the last few days. IE still seems to insist on putting extra line breaks after links in the sidebar, but at least I've got the sidebar where it's supposed to be and not smushed at the bottom
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1 Comments:
Saw your comment on Slashdot. I shall try to spread this "gone all eights" meme of yours. It makes sense, although perhaps not for much longer as these kinds of "all eights" displays will (one assumes) be displaced by better digital readouts.
By Anonymous, at March 30, 2005
