Muchaos, and Muchchas: Mythical Month Man on Missing Metaphor (from today's 'fortune' cookie)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:03:16PM -0400, LDR wrote:
>The so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead an
>"airplane-seat" metaphor.  Anyone who has shuffled a lap full of papers
>while
>seated between two portly passengers will recognize the difference --
>one can
>see only a very few things at once.
>
>  -- Fred Brooks, Jr.
>
>---
>
>Yet one more reason to lose weight (and wait, i.e., transition from
>Cygwin to Linux).

Please go away, m'kay?

cgf