In a discussion on the Geekup mailing list about a particularly stupid bit of Government legislation, I came across this:

Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:

It would have been wiser to invest in a couple of islands and some yachts....

Caius Durling wrote:

Any room on there for another (possible) expat? :)

Simon Ward wrote:

If we manage to find some islands, it seems we’ll already have thriving geek community. :D

I tried to imagine how a desert island occupied by hardcore geeks would work..

"Ah I'd love to rescue you from that quicksand, but can you just wait whilst I download the iphone app to do that"

"Guys, Guys, guess what!"
- "what?"
"I've already sold an e-commerce site to a Monkey I met in the jungle!!"
- "You fool you should have killed it for food?"
"I couldn't eat a client!"
"..."

"Does anyone have a Macbook display adapter with them?"
- "no"
"oh.."

"Does anyone have a Windows 7 rescue CD to reimage my laptop with?"
- "no"
":("
- "I've got a Ubuntu CD..."
"Fuck off"

"Guys, I've written a program that takes all the weather information I've collected, analyses the current weather and gives you an accurate 7 day weather forcast"
- "Cool"
- "What is this?"
"This is today's forcast"
- "Oh I think I see, the UI could use some work. How do I see tomorrow's forcast?"
"Simple, just C-M-], C-X, C-^}, M-987"
- "???"
"This is the Emacs interface"

Anyone else got any ideas? Leave a comment