I know that all of you probably already read XKCD. And there’s a good chance that the audience for this blog also has at least a passing familiarity with The Lord of the Rings. Just in case you fall into the latter but not the former, check out today’s XKCD.
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This story is a nearly verbatim conversation that I had back when I worked retail with a customer who called in looking for a computer:
Customer: I need a computer with four megahertz.
Me: Excuse me?
Customer: You deaf? I said I need a computer with four megahertz!
Me: Do you mean a computer with four cores?
Customer: No you idiot! Don’t talk down to me! I want a computer with four megahertz!
Me: Sir, they haven’t made computers that ran at 4mhz since about 1985.
Customer: Don’t you lie to me! I saw an ad for a computer with 4 megahertz and you’re gonna show me how to get it!
Me: One moment sir, let me transfer you to automotive. Ask them about their flux capacitors.
Customer: That’s more like it.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I do write about the iPhone from time to time here. So if you’re going to take the time to leave a comment with a link back to your iPhone scam site then it would be a good idea to leave said comment on a post about the iPhone rather than one about Patch 3.3.3 for World of Warcraft. Sometimes it helps to take that extra step when you’re already going to so much trouble to siphon off a bit of my small audience.
I don’t care what you say, the new Star Trek movie should have ended with everyone being spaghettified into a string of Enterprise sized atoms! Except warp technology is technically faster-than-light technology meaning that ejecting the warp core could allow them to escape the pull of a black hole.
I wasted a lot of my youth reading the Star Trek Encyclopedia and the Star Trek Technical Manual.
Anyways, the guys over at How It Should Have Ended have given the new Trek movie the old what-for and worked up an ending that’s guaranteed to make millions of trekkies cry out in anger and then get silenced under the cold harsh indifference of the rest of geekdom.
I’d like to get something out of the way before proceeding with this post. I’m sure that this is on a a making-of feature on one of the Star Wars DVDs somewhere, but my devotion to George Lucas’ one-trilogy wonder was never enough to compel me to watch all of the extra material. So this video clip featuring David Prowse’s original voice acting for villain Darth Vader was new to me.
And a little disappointing. I’m reminded of the scene near the end of The Emperor’s New Groove where Eartha Kitt is transformed into some random animal complete with obscuring mist and a sinister laugh only to zoom out on a cute little kitten with a most non-threatening high pitched voice.
The Internet has been abuzz with how “totally hot” this tattoo is, proving that anything remotely geeky is usually enough to ratchet a girl up a few hotness notches in the eyes of most geeks. Being a happily married man myself I shall refrain from any such drooling fanboy nonsense…
Wait a sec, is that a Staypuft Marshmallow Man tattoo I see peeking out of the bottom of the shot?
Get’er!
Heh. That was your whole plan, huh? “Get her!” Very scientific.
But seriously guys. The tattoo is pretty cool, but I wouldn’t exactly go making wedding plans and figuring out the perfect school district to raise your kids because someone happens to be willing to permanently ink themselves with ’80s and ’90s pop culture references. You should at least go on a date first, play it cool, see how things go, y’know?
Via Reddit.
If you’re from an RP realm then this is going to be effin’ hilarious. If you’re not from an RP realm but have ever had to endure the ridiculous opening in Culling then it will merely be hilarious.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week you’re probably aware of Kevin Smith’s Twitter battle with Southwest Airlines. The whole snafu started when Southwest decided that Smith was too big to fly and then spiraled out of control as Southwest lied in an attempt to spin the whole thing in their favor. Then the mainstream media picked it up and applied their usual standard of research excellence by simply regurgitating the Southwest press release in its entirety without looking into Smith’s side of the story.
But it’s all good, because Hitler’s got Kevin covered.
If you’re a Star Trek fan and a cat lover then this will be the most hilarious and adorable thing you’ll see today:
My dormant inner English major rose from its slumber to debate whether or not lolcat is a proper noun worthy of capitalization. I decided to capitalize it in the title, but not in the body of the post. These are the thoughts that preoccuppy me for large chunks of the day.
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Worldwar: In the Balance by Harry Turtledove
Recent books:
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
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