The existence of cloud->butt is kind of humorous. "Look, this thing is overhyped by people who don't understand it. What if we :s/cloud/butt/g, but like in an addon?" Yeah, I get it. Very clever.
I don't understand actually using it though. I mean, I sort of get it. Perhaps, deep down, everyone is easy to amuse; it's just a question of what domain are they easily amused by. But do you really want to give yourself programmatic word aphasia?
Doing it a second time, years later, feels more strange. Like watching a child who copies a joke made by an adult without understanding the structure or semantics of the joke, I find myself nervously smiling at the presentation before me.
And then you come along, "AWS employees ... extension installed ... wrecked havoc ...". Yes, that seems like a predictable result. Thank you for your anecdote, I kind of expected that to be the case and it at least feels good to hear that my understanding of the world matches someone's experience.
I probably shouldn't use it but it's so funny. Probably the most interesting effect is that the two words "cloud" and "butt" are becoming conflated in my mind. If someone said that it was "butty" out today I would know exactly what they meant.
I still run cloud to butt, because it's still a stupid buzzword and the extension makes things funnier. Case in point: your comment reads to me as "my butt to butt plugin", which is hilarious.
In case anybody else is confused like I was: there is a plug-in for browsers that turns all mention of “cloud” to “butt”. Parent apparently has this plugin installed, and thus the “to butt” part is “to cloud”. (Users of said plugin will see me just saying butt a lot here :P )
The fun thing about cloud->butt for me was that is showed up infrequently enough that I would forget about it and occasionally be really confused. Like when a company called cloudplugs showed up on tech news sites. Everyone needs a little chaos in their work day.
I remember it was also that cloud as a term was pure marketing hype. Unnecessary rebranding of a thing we already had a good name for, servers. And also to pick such a irrational name ”cloud” which didn’t relate to technology at all. You could hear everyone use it in nonsense high flying keynotes. All the hands-on computer people laughed at it and I think cloud to butt was part of that.
In the end it’s actually really good word for newish concept and using it does not feel silly to me anymore.
I don't understand actually using it though. I mean, I sort of get it. Perhaps, deep down, everyone is easy to amuse; it's just a question of what domain are they easily amused by. But do you really want to give yourself programmatic word aphasia?
Doing it a second time, years later, feels more strange. Like watching a child who copies a joke made by an adult without understanding the structure or semantics of the joke, I find myself nervously smiling at the presentation before me.
And then you come along, "AWS employees ... extension installed ... wrecked havoc ...". Yes, that seems like a predictable result. Thank you for your anecdote, I kind of expected that to be the case and it at least feels good to hear that my understanding of the world matches someone's experience.
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