Radio GETs HEAD

Ever wonder why I ramble on about things that I clearly don’t understand, throwing out ideas that won’t work, reinventing wheels right and left? Here’s why: every once in a while, it jars loose a good idea someone had long ago, and ten thousand web servers breathe a sigh of relief.

Barely related: is there a name for the belief that everything has already been invented, and the solution to every problem already exists?

Completely unrelated: Slashdot : Libraries are 31337. Damn right.

15 Comments

Comment by Kafkaesquí #
2002-10-20 15:36:08

RE: Barely related (kissing cousins?)

I’d suggest calling it ringnaldageist, but that’s sort of a mouthful.

 
Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2002-10-20 15:55:13

Much closer to ringnaldaschmerz: I want a shiny new toy to solve every problem, and when someone tells me in a patronizing tone that someone has done the heavy lifting and I shouldn’t reinvent the wheel, I want to grab them by the ugly wide flowered tie and smash… er, I have an unfortunate visceral reaction to being told that there’s already a solution to every problem.

 
Comment by michel v #
2002-10-20 16:02:13

It could be a disease. The Ringnaldite!

 
Comment by Shannon #
2002-10-20 17:35:03

Looking for an answer to your question, I found this line in an article titled ”The Future and Its Enemies”: ”Technocrats, if anything, tend to think that everything has already been invented (because they can’t think of anything new), and have occasionally said so.”

Now I’m not sure if it’s technocrats in the sense of these ultra-scary freaks, but I like the word anyways. Technocrats. Nice.

 
Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2002-10-20 19:52:41

Those are… that’s, uh…

The human ability to believe is pretty amazing, isn’t it?

 
Comment by Kafkaesquí #
2002-10-21 14:55:38

I’m so proud of everyone!

More than a day has past, and no one’s yet made a snide remark or suggestive innuendo in regards to the title on this post. Well, all but for that one trackback. Bad, bad trackback. No cookie for you.

 
Comment by Dave Winer #
2002-10-21 16:00:13

BTW, now geekish Radio users can track back too!

 
Comment by Sam Ruby #
2002-10-22 11:04:31

Kafkaesquí, no cookie, eh?

Phil updated the description of this blog.

Yum, yum. ;-)

 
Comment by Kafkaesquí #
2002-10-22 11:39:50

Sam, you know how to make your own cookies. =]

 
Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2002-10-22 12:05:48

Sam, are you sure that’s a cookie, and not lemonade?

 
Comment by Peter Eschenbrenner #
2002-10-22 18:01:57

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9

King David said it almost 3 millenia ago. Of course, someone probably said it before him…

 
Comment by Peter Eschenbrenner #
2002-10-22 18:13:40

It was pointed out to me that it was Solomon, David’s son, who said it.

Who knows, he might have heard it from his dad.

 
Trackback by LibraryPlanet.com #
2002-10-20 16:50:15

Ringnalda on Libraries

Completely unrelated: Slashdot : Libraries are 31337. Damn right. – Phil Ringnalda

 
Trackback by Sam Ruby #
2002-10-21 08:03:13

The Digital Magpie Crows

Joelcontemplates autogenerating a different rss feed for less polite aggregators. Within hours, Daveadds the code to Radio. Philpromptly takes credit for not inventing the idea.In the process, a new and somewhat more apt description for Phil’s weblog

 
Trackback by LibraryPlanet.com #
2003-11-11 12:35:15

Ringnalda on Libraries

Completely unrelated: Slashdot : Libraries are 31337. Damn right. – Phil Ringnalda…

 
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