Barbie the Debian Developer
Some people may have seen recently that the Barbie series has a rather sexist book out about Barbie the Computer Engineer. Fortunately, there’s a way to improve this by making your own version.
Thus, I made a short version about Barbie the Debian Developer and init system packager.
(For those who don’t know me, this is satirical. Any resemblance to people is purely coincidental.)
Edit: added text in alt tags. Also, hai reddit!
Gosh, you’re great!!! :)
A good story out of 2 bad ones. Thanks ;)
This is effing brilliant
To the tune of ‘Barbie Girl’ (with apologies to Aqua)
Hiya Barbie
Hi Lennart!
You wanna hack some code?
Sure Lennart.
Jump in.
I’m a Barbie girl, in a Linux world
Synaptic, it’s fantastic.
You can toss SysV, replace it with SysD.
Imagination, FLOSS is your creation.
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding!
I’m a Barbie girl, in a Linux world
Synaptic, it’s fantastic.
You can toss RC, replace it with SysD.
Imagination, FLOSS is your creation.
I’m a blonde Debian girl, in a fantasy world,
Log me in, make it root, consoleD.
You’re a dev, rock’n’roll, feel the glamour in Red(Hat),
Commit here, grab code there, udevD.
You can patch,
you can shim,
if you say “Use glibc”.
(uu-ooh-oh)
I’m a Barbie girl, in a Linux world
Synaptic, it’s fantastic.
You can toss SysV, replace it with SysD.
Imagination, FLOSS is your creation.
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding! (ah-ah-ah yeah)
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding! (uu-ooh-oh)
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding! (ah-ah-ah yeah)
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding! (uu-ooh-oh)
Make me hack, make me pack, do whatever you please,
I can act like a lead, I can code service files.
Come jump in, coding friend, let us do it again,
Hit the town, tool around, let’s go coding.
You can patch,
you can shim,
If you say “Use glibc”.
You can patch,
you can shim,
If you say “No BSD”.
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding! (ah-ah-ah yeah)
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding! (uu-ooh-oh)
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding! (ah-ah-ah yeah)
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding! (uu-ooh-oh)
I’m a Barbie girl, in a Linux world
Synaptic, it’s fantastic.
You can toss SysV, replace it with SysD.
Imagination, FLOSS is your creation.
I’m a Barbie girl, in a Linux world
Synaptic, it’s fantastic.
You can toss RC, replace it with SysD.
Imagination, FLOSS is your creation.
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding! (ah-ah-ah yeah)
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding! (uu-ooh-oh)
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding! (ah-ah-ah yeah)
Come on Barbie, let’s go coding! (uu-ooh-oh)
Oh, I’m having so much fun!
Well Barbie, we’re just getting started.
Oh, I love you Lennart.
Haha Excellent!
This is hilarious, thank you so much!
Why didn’t we have Barbie the Computer Engineer a year ago?!?!
Hahaha Ken, made my day!
systemd is awesome
Liiiiiiiitle bit distracted from reality
“Sarcasm is the lowest form of humour” ~ Joseph Stalin
Um… firstly, it’s not “humour”, it’s “wit”. Secondly, it wasn’t Joseph Stalin, it was Oscar Wilde. Finally, the full quote is: “sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence”
Noted, and known (and not offended).
In case it’s unclear – I very much enjoyed and appreciated your Barbie explanation[*1]. Humour and intelligence are great tools for providing new perspectives. Often when satire challenges opinions based on emotional over-investment (bias) the joke, and the thinking behind it, is dismissed by the partial quoting of Mr Wilde – “sarcasm is the lowest form of wit“. Hence my satirical quote.
It was tempting to demand a citation proving Joseph Stalin didn’t say that (which Joseph Stalin?). But I decided to exercise some self-control. :)
[*1] and your decision to publish the very MikeeUSA-like “song”, the song not so much.
Kind regards
I may do one of these for fun, call it “Barbie Installs Linux”