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I dunno, the choice of Old Persian is rather questionable when everyone knows the lingua franca was Akkadian, and looking at the tablets it's pretty clear they were using a sharpened chopstick rather than reeds harvested from the banks of the Euphrates. In sum: FAIL.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:19AM
> Job's laser clay tablet engraver
Yeah it looks shiny, but it's way overpriced for the specs and doesn't engrave properly if you are "holding it wrong".
> the world has changed a lot since then, and seems to take itself much more seriously.
I think it's just that the geek world has shifted out of the workplace. It used to be that the only place for geeks to get together and share in geek humour and geek culture was at work (and only then if you happened to work in a sufficiently geeky workplace) but now there is the internet, which provides a million places to swap obscure SF references and comedic short stories.