The Breaking of Standards

Each and every day, Sol relies on standards to make his job more fruitful. Whether it is rfc2616 or rfc1034 Sol enjoys when his internets run smoothly. Because they have made his life easier, Sol has become very attached to standards and will fight to the bitter end to defend them.

Sol will openly ridicule and attempt to humiliate those that do not believe in following standards. No matter what the consequence, Sol believes a standard must be adhered to without any exceptions or even minor deviations. When you live on Sols webs, you will play by Sol's rules.

So you're a company who is losing five hundred dollars a second because the programming you had outsourced to India doesn't follow standards? Too bad. Sol doesn't want to listen to you cry like a baby, he has better things to do. When you run on Sol's boxen, you must learn to give a little CR with your LF. Don't like it? Tough titty.

After watching Sol fervently defend these standards it makes me wonder. How can a person so against the man believe in conforming?

Sol. Is it not the American standard to have 2.5 children and a dog? What if I want three children and a cat? Will you break into my house, steal the top half of my youngest child, and teach my cat to bark?

What will you do with the top half of a child? Add it to your collection? Boil it in a stew? Sell it on e-bay? The mind boggles.

If we never broke any standards:

• The world would be flat

• The sun would revolve around the earth

• Every morning a man in a chariot would have to wake up early to pull the sun behind him across the sky. Sol would probably be chosen for this position.

In closing, Sol is clearly a complex person full of internal conflict and paradoxes. More investigation is needed.