[TriLUG] completely and totally OT question

[Frye, Matthew]

> Did the computer run Linux?  (Please, please, please, somebody help me
> find a way to make this thread be somehow related to the mailing list I
> subscribed to....*chuckle*) 
> 
> Chances are, if FBDO was filmed today, Ferris would be an OS X guy.
> 
I would tend to doubt that.  Ferris seemed less concerned with his computer
than with having fun; something militant geeks just don't get.  He would
probably have a Winders PC, but not spend much time on it.  

> And if you ignore the timeline discrepency, there are other glaring 
> issues:
> 1) He took the day off to go outside and have fun; very little time was 
> spent indoors.
> 
Like I said, that computer was a very small part of his life.  

> 2) He had a girlfriend.  And she was hot.
> 
Yes, but that doesn't mean much.  I had a hot girlfriend once and she turned
into a psycho-ex-wife.  

> 3) He drove a car without any geeky stickers on it.
> 
He didn't even have a car.  This is central to the plot.  Remember, Cameron
had a "piece of s***," (that's a quote from the movie) and the Ferrari
belonged to Cameron's Dad.  

> 4) His computer worked without a lot of messing around.
> 
No doubt, considering he turned it on for the purpose of playing burp,
vomit, and cough sounds through his keyboard.  


Offtopic to this OT: Cameron's last name was Frye.  :-P