The Artisans of Fake Vomit

Wow, you can always depend on BB to amaze, entertain and inform.

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Whacking a Dead Horse: Windows ME in the Comics

I love xkcd, it’s one of my favorite web comics, click on the comic to visit the site.  You’ll lose hours of productivity, but you’ll have laugh lines.

Ever Wondered Who Does What in Movies?

I sure as hell did.  That is, until I read this post from the FreshDV site, now I know what “best boy” and “key grip” are, and so can you.

Enjoy,

iMB

Is Microsoft Wicked?

So we are at the relatives the other day, and we (all the kids and I, or as my wife would say, “all the kids”) play a bunch of rounds of a game called Apples to Apples.

The game’s premise is that you are dealt 7 red cards which are persons, places or things, and then someone who is the dealer (judge) will pick a green card that has a concept on it that you have to present the best solution to.  For example, if the judge picks a green card that has the term “emotional” on it, there will be 3 or 4 alternative descriptions for emotional, such as “moody”, “tempermental” etc.

When the green card is put down, everyone else picks the best card from their hand that will persuade the judge to pick them, and if picked as the best match to the green card, they get the card, and it takes 8 of them to win the game.

So, with all that setup, I was playing with the kids and having a great time, ages 6-19, very fun and informative game, when the judge plops the green card on the table and it has the word “wicked” on it.  “Wicked” is defined as “evil”, “corrupt” and “despicable”.  I’m looking through my cards for just the right one to convince the 17 year old judge that I have the best one and I have some doozies in my hand, “President Bush”, “Count Dracula” and some others of lesser note, but I knew I had the very best one; “Microsoft”.

Now, when you play such a game with all those differing levels of awareness, education, relative innocence and just plain savvy, you never know if the judge’s age and lack of knowledge will work FOR or AGAINST you.

So I put my Microsoft card out on the table facedown, and  figure that with the judge’s age and evident lack of awareness of all things computing, I won’t get the green card.

To my utter surprise, even with opponents like “Saddam Hussein” and “First Day of School”, they all agreed with the judge that my card was the one to win.  When I asked them all collectively about why that was, they related to me that everyone knew that Microsoft Windows had viruses and crashed all the time.

Love it, we’re ready to intro SLED at this point.  Maybe we’ll go dual-boot next visit out there…

RossB

Wow, even Windows users can get the spinning cube…

Like back when Frank Zappa said “Speed was cool until the Republicans got into it” or something to that effect, there is a new FF extension that reproduces an XGL-like effect only on Windows Boxes.  Additional features include bugginess, instability and crashes, so it follows the usual MS Development Guidelines, apparently.

If you even have to wonder…

Bruce Campbell, he of Evil Dead fame is now the new spokesman for Old Spice products, I can’t wait to see the madness!

“Good Ash, Bad Ash, I’m the one with the Gun!”  Evil Dead II

Converting Techno-phobic Loved Ones

Great article, add this to your New Years Rez’s

Proof that the Zune guys are COMPLETELY off their rockers

This is the strangest ad I have personally ever seen, it’s like Doc Johnson’s products suddenly got eyes and a sound stage….

More fun with Kernel Source and grep

Some seriously funny stuff, anyone who ever took a Linux class with me knows about grepping the kernel source for expletives, it’s the BEST way to learn how to use grep…

I can’t resist posting this one…

The “Banana Bunker” is for protecting, er, hrm, your banana while you’re carrying it around, and it’s not what you think (aka “Banana Hammock”), it’s really for protecting bananas, but if I found one at the counter of a store, I’d wonder briefly if I wandered into an Adult Bookstore by accident…