Piracy is bad

For those of you out there who aren't Unix/Linux geeks, here's the punchline:

the Unix command to delete a file is RM. If you have a folder and you want to delete it and all it's contents, you add the -r flag to make the deletion recursive. Thus we have "rm -r"

-Thanks to Sarah for pointing out that you don't 'at' the flag, you 'add' the flag.

You can sell some people anything

I have found that not having a TV saves me a good deal of time in dealing with telemarketers, since about 50% of them seem to be selling either DirecTV or cable something or other. I remember one such conversation especially:

Me: "Hello?"
TM: "Hello, I'm calling from [some tv service] and I'd like to offer you-"
Me: "We don't have a TV."
[pause]
TM: "When do you plan on purchasing a television?"
Me: "Probably never."
[pause]
TM: "Okay, we'll call you back at that time."

Come to think of it, that was the last time I answered a TM call. Hmm...

Dead bulb

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