High Fives: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

We are all familiar with the common or garden high five, but there are many other ones out there. In this, I aim to enlighten you as to which to avoid, and which to covet.

The Good

Meme Five
Now don't mistake me, I love Internet Memes, but there are far too many of them. Over 9000 some might say. So when I say this, I mean more friend specific in-jokes, rather than full-blown memes. Having said all that, there IS the following:

Rick Astley/ RickRoll Five
Sometimes, this can come across as a bit of a jerk thing to do, but when rickrolls are properly executed (the best ones being ones IRL like this) They can actually be excellent, and in such cases generally deserve a Five.

The Bad

Self Five
The Self five is one of the most pitiable objects on the earth.


The Ugly

Torture Five
The Torture Five is when the Geneva Convention is pushed to its limits in order for one person to take an undeserved Five from another. The Torture Five is to be avoided at all costs, and it is often reccomended to give an undeserved Five, rather than be involved in someone taking a Five from you.

"Thats what she said" Five
Now it may seem that this is, in fact, a very positive thing, but under many occasions, the phrase gets overused, and you end up with needless Fives being given for things that, in retrospect, weren't very great at all.


Remember: only allow Fives when they have been earned.


In other, more serious news, I'd like to tell everyone about a great Linux Distrobution I have been using called #! Crunchbang Linux.

It uses the "Openbox" window manager, and has a cool resource monitor called Conky. Conky can be set up to tell you network usage, disk space, your rapidshare points, you could probably use it with twitter, you can have it tell you the weather, it's endlessly scriptable, and there is a large following of people who love to mess about with it.




That's one of my set-ups, though I did keep mine simple. Oh, and the standard theme is very minimalist, but I picked an even MORE minimalist theme. The thing entitled "Terminator" on the left is the standard terminal for the distrobution, but my theme means its top bar fades into the black of the wallpaper.



EDIT: Fixed all the superflous apostrophies. Sorry Al!