And yet I don't have finger(1)
Purging dotfiles in anticipation of hd swaps and the initiation of a new backup regime—something, the purging I mean, harder to do than I anticipated, since mostly they have cryptic names and may well be in active use without my knowledge—I discover that I have a .plan file:
Well: I've punched a time-clock, and Ive completed a Ph.D., and I'd like to let you in on a dirty little secret: unalienated labour is not all that it was cracked up to be by the old Marxists. A bit of fishing, a bit of criticism,... well, it's just not like that. You don't go fishing. Or at least, you don't go fishing very often. And when you do go fishing, you can't really fish, because you're too busy fretting about the criticism you should be doing instead: "Why am I fishing?! I should be criticizing!"
So punctuated. It was modified last on March 7, 2005 (though changed last on January 27, 2007—presumably the distinction is between the file and its contents). I have never had a reason to have a .plan file on my own computer, and certainly didn't need one in mar 2005, though that is about, I believe, when I got the computer I'm currently using. I was very confused about whether I might have written it, but apparently it was said by the invisible adjunct in April of 2003, when, I guess, I may well have read it. (That seems implausible. Perhaps I was rather directed to the post in question later, perhaps by Tim Burke?)
Comments
on 2009-02-16 5:43:23.0, max commented:
Those bloggers... they're in your home dir, giving you the finger.
Maybe you were testing finger and needed a test .plan?
max ['Perhaps some other old (or new) program demanded a .plan file?']