What the smeg is a "KIBO"?
Peter
Hi!
I've seen the occasional reference to something called
a "kibo". What is it? Is it an acronym? Is it a
reference to male genitalia?
Thanks,
- Peter.
Scott Forbes
|I've seen the occasional reference to something called
|a "kibo". What is it? Is it an acronym? Is it a
|reference to male genitalia?
Yes.
David DeLaney
>Hi!
>I've seen the occasional reference to something called
>a "kibo". What is it? Is it an acronym? Is it a
>reference to male genitalia?
He wishes...
>Thanks,
>- Peter.
From the draft (upcoming) Net.Legends FAQ:
Kibo (You're allowed. --K.): Perhaps the single greatest hallmark of
genius is to do something blindingly obvious that noone else has ever done
before. James "Kibo" Parry, confronted with the vast reality of UseNet, decided
to begin `grep'ing his entire newsfeed for posts containing his middle monicker,
"kibo", in order to look them over and see if they were worth replying to. As a
result, any post mentioning kibo became suddenly apt to generate a followup from
the great one, or at least email from him. As his art was refined, he started
also grepping for "xvob" ("kibo" in rot13 encryption) and anti-grepping for
"ski boots", for obvious reasons. He has become a UseNet term, derived from this
activity: grepping your entire newsfeed is "kibozing", and one who does so is a
"kibozer" (or, depending on how you feel about them, a "kibozo"). I have
recently seen reference on alt.folklore.computers to an operating system
having to "kiboze its hard disk" to find files... He has his own newsgroup,
alt.religion.kibology, which is also his own religion (kibo is a genuine
net.god, along with tale and Shub-Internet (q.v.)) where odd posts happen
(including some regularly from John_-_Winston (q.v.)); he has an imitator,
xibo (q.v.); he has a dog, named Spot. He has said that if he had a
personalized license plate, it would say LCNSPLT. He has what is probably the
canonical example of a supremely warlordable .signature; however, he rarely
uses it, preferring the terse " -- K.". Several other people have
adapted his newsgrep technique for purposes of their own, including Serdar
Argic (q.v.); Larry Wall, the creator of the language perl (who does it to
answer perl questions); and (reportedly - check the AFU FAQ on this) the
National Security Agency... If you have ever received email from kibo, your
official kibo number starts out as 1; if you have not received email from
anyone whose kibo number is < n, but have received email from someone whose
kibo # is n, then yours is n+1. Fractional kibo numbers are imposters (i.e.,
ted frank (q.v.)); kibo's own kibo number is 0. (A few others have kibo number
zero as well, earned in various ways.) His titles include "Great Leader" and
"He Who Greps"; discussions about kibo tend to attract his attention unless
specific precautions are taken (e.g.: Quibeau), and such precautions, in
general, don't last very long... kibo has no real "haunts" (that I know of)
other than his group and UseNet in general, but *does* read
alt.folklore.computers. Posts from ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry).
Hope this clears up some of your confusion.
Dave "hi kibo!" DeLaney
--
David DeLaney: dbd@(utkux.utcc | panacea.phys | enigma.phys).utk.edu - collect
them all! Disclaimer: AFAIK, *nobody* speaks for U.T.Knoxville (consistently);
Thinking about this disclaimer (or about high energy theoretical particle __
physics) may cause headaches. .sig virus: Vicki Robinson v2.24; Kibo #: -0 \/
James Kibo Parry
In article <1993Dec22....@martha.utcc.utk.edu>,
David DeLaney <d...@martha.utcc.utk.edu> wrote:
> having to "kiboze its hard disk" to find files... He has his own newsgroup,
> alt.religion.kibology,
What about alt.exploding.kibo and alt.politics.kibo? Not that I use
either any more... (I would use the politics group, but it's hopeless,
because the White House has decided to try to hide the fact that I won
the '92 election.)
> uses it, preferring the terse " -- K.". Several other people have
> adapted his newsgrep technique for purposes of their own, including Serdar
> Argic (q.v.); Larry Wall, the creator of the language perl (who does it to
> answer perl questions);
You're going to get an angry letter from Larry about that.
-- K.
Larry Wall
: [alt.folklore.computers]
I never send angry letters. Snotty letters, yes, and sometimes even
snooty letters, but never angry letters. Humph.
Nonetheless, Kibo is correct that I'm slightly miffed. I never knew about
Kibo's kibozing until we started turning up together in the same paragraphs.
And we certainly don't use the same technique--my clip program is written
in Perl, and I believe Kibo uses agrep, him being allergic to Perl. Call
it independent invention. It's not as if it ain't perfectly obvious to
the humility-impaired that scanning a newsfeed would be a neat thing.
Larry Wall
lw...@netlabs.com
Lon Stowell
>: You're going to get an angry letter from Larry about that.
>
>
>Nonetheless, Kibo is correct that I'm slightly miffed. I never knew about
>Kibo's kibozing until we started turning up together in the same paragraphs.
>And we certainly don't use the same technique--my clip program is written
>in Perl, and I believe Kibo uses agrep, him being allergic to Perl. Call
>it independent invention. It's not as if it ain't perfectly obvious to
>the humility-impaired that scanning a newsfeed would be a neat thing.
I take it that the rumors of the combined legal staffs of Microsoft
and Apple are hard at work on a Kibo-Wall lawsuit are mere rumors?
Paul Tomblin
>it independent invention. It's not as if it ain't perfectly obvious to
>the humility-impaired that scanning a newsfeed would be a neat thing.
I'm waiting for the "perl-rn", with the built in "read every followup to
everything I've ever written" and the "find any mention of any of the regexps
in this file in the entire unread part of the news hierachy".
When did you say you were going to re-write rn in perl?
--
Paul Tomblin. In Vicki Robinson we trust.
"When viewed from the proper perspective, this thread is actually just a bunch
of people being silly." - Daniel Lottero
Edward Rice
Pr> Hi! I've seen the occasional reference to something called a "kibo".
Pr> What is it? Is it an acronym? Is it a reference to male genitalia?
Pr>
Pr> Thanks, - Peter.
But do you already know what the kibo a smeg is?
Andrew Valencia
>... Call
>it independent invention. It's not as if it ain't perfectly obvious to
>the humility-impaired that scanning a newsfeed would be a neat thing.
Yes, but how's the semantic grep coming along, Warry Lall? :-)
Andy
Lance S. Buckley
>
> But do you already know what the kibo a smeg is?
Jeez! For a second there I thought you said "a KILO of smeg".
Doesn't bear thinking about, I suppose you'd have to get that
much from a Red Giant :)
--
Lance S. Buckley (LSB) la...@avalon.demon.co.uk
Living on the edge of the Brentford Triangle...
Belay that knobkerry Neville, and make mine a pint of Large!
(*sniff* Can you smell creosote?)
[PGP 2.3a key available on request, and via keyserver]
Edward Rice
> But do you already know what the kibo a smeg is?
>
"S> Jeez! For a second there I thought you said "a KILO of smeg". Doesn't
"S> bear thinking about, I suppose you'd have to get that much from a Red
"S> Giant :)
AT least one person does, anyway.
Larry Wall
What is the meaning of this? :-)
Warry