My original question was who said/wrote 'Follow the energy'? My brain tells me it was Asimov somewhere in the Foundation series. Obviously a play on 'follow the money' from the movie All the President's Men.
My google-fu failed me. Which leads to my next question: Is google-fu a hatrack expression?
Which leads to: Where is that Hatrack wiki again?
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
If you google google-fu, you'll find links like this, which refers to google-fu and is clearly not hatrack.
Posted by orlox (Member # 2392) on :
quote:"That's going to take some serious code-fu." First sighted in connection with the GIMP's remote-scripting facility, script-fu, in 1998.
GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: http://www.gimp.org/ Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
I've seen (and personally used) the "-fu" appellation in this sense well before 1998. The earliest influence for it that I can think of is the show Monstervision with Joe Bob Briggs. It was one of those shows where they have a feature movie and the host makes jokes and trivia about it at the commercial breaks. At the end he would recap the "high points" of the movie with a list of things like the number of explosions, number of deaths, and anything used creatively in a fight with -fu. "We've got kung-fu, chair-fu, chainsaw-fu, car-fu, goat-fu, etc."
Of course, with a usage such as this I expect that other people came up with it separately. Joe Bob is just the first fairly widespread media persona I've seen to use it consistantly.
--Enigmatic
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
I forgot all about my boy Joe Bob. I used to read his movie reviews in the local rag while I was in college.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Hatrack wiki is here. Posted by orlox (Member # 2392) on :
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