anina is a dumb broad

Wired has a stupid article today about a Parisian catwalk model and Unix programmer named Anina who drags the fashion industry into the world of blogs and moblogs.

Um, right. Let’s look at the article, shall we?

The Paris-based redhead, who is as much preoccupied with hard drives as haute couture, regularly uses her cell to blog pictures and journal entries from shows, hair appointments and photo shoots.

Gee whiz, she figured out how to post a picture from her cell phone onto a blog! Give her a cookie (oh wait, better not in case she eats it and barfs it back up). I’m not sure how that makes her “preoccupied with hard drives” though.

Anina, who is addressing the Les Blogs conference on social technologies, believes her parallel expertise in both shoes and Bluetooth can help shape the future of communications technology for females in particular

Hm, what sorts of expertise does she have in Bluetooth? Was she part of the standards committee? Has she written a Linux device driver? Or does she maybe just use a Bluetooth headset to connect to her cellphone while talking?

“When I’m fed up with photo shoots, I run away to code,” said the Colorado-born model, who learned Unix at school and credits her computer-engineer brothers as inspiration.

Oh, you “run away to code”, do you? Out of curiosity, I googled “anina code” and came up with a Cringely interview (here). The third question goes like this:

Bob: So, are you the mother of Unix?

Anina: No. I wish! (Laughing) No I don’t do real creation. I’m more specialized in reinvention, taking technology and warping it to do what I want it to do.

Hm, so which is it? How can you “run away to code” when you “don’t do real creation”? Reading through the entire Cringely interview accomplished two things:

1) made my IQ go down by about 10 points

2) required me to clean the puke off my monitors

Some more fun quotes:

Anina: Yea, yea. There’s a Z drive that’s like hidden, you’ll never go there. But you know if you get this little application on the phone you can see all the drives of the phone. So, then I can like go in and dissect it and actually see what my operating system is made out of, which is fascinating. So, then I don’t know. I just started poking around and deleting things and you know – then I tried to get them off of there so that I could you know take them apart and see what they were made up of and so on. I wanted to understand what was an SMS message made up of when it wasn’t on the phone, you know. I wanted to see what that stuff looked like from a code aspect.

So what did you, like, totally see when you, like, dissected your operating system? Did you, like, I don’t know, see a whole bunch of ones and zeroes?

Anina: Okay. So, it’s really fun and it’s really great to code, you know my micro site. Okay? But I model in the day and then you know, I’m coding on my computer, doing computer stuff you know until like 3:00 in the morning or 4:00 in the morning. And then I have to sleep a little bit and get up and go to a shoot. So for example, I started looking for, you know how there is DreamWeaver? I started looking for DreamWeaver for creating easily and quickly mobile pages. Well, I found some tools but they are like archaic and don’t even deal with the color aspect of anything. So, what I would do is I would use this tool to make a quick WML page and then I would take that and I would start to implement ASP code into it and then you know. So it’s just like a really quick GUI to get past all of this sort of mundane stuff and then start really doing the fun stuff, which is you know, shaping what the page will look like, plugging in some cool graphics, you know optimizing the pages and so on and so forth. So, that’s one example of using a tool to just sort of save time. Because if your site starts growing very large, you want to be able to quickly make pages and go to bed.

Oh, I get it now. Making web pages is writing code, but it takes you a long time because you couldn’t figure out how to steal DreamWeaver and are forced to use archaic tools that like, don’t even deal with the color aspect of anything and stuff.

You know, instead you are at a party. You’re like oh I want to Blue Tooth you my composite. You know and they are like, everybody’s like uh Anina, where’s the Blue Tooth. I’m like give me your phone. You see this little red arrow and blue arrow with the two phones, that means, you know, exchange of information. Click on that. There you go – there’s your Blue Tooth. Turn it on. They are like wow, I never even knew that. And in a matter of two seconds they are up and Blue Toothing. They didn’t even know before that it existed.

I’m like, wiping the puke of my, uh, keyboard now, because like, I’m like, wow you are so fucking stupid I don’t even know how you like, breathe and stuff.