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A Rocker’s Date

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:55:31 +0000

Why is BMW so successful?

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:50:17 +0000

Misplaced Ads

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:15:41 +0000

Some nice IRC quotes

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:03:19 +0000

hm. I’ve lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can’t figure out where in my apartment it is.

what should I give sister for unzipping?
Um. Ten bucks?
no I mean like, WinZip?

my girlfriend broke up with me and sent me pix of her and her new boyfriend in bed
ouch.
yeah.i sent them to her dad

I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying “You’re next”. They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals.

Left or Right? What’s Your Option?

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:37:49 +0000

It’s like in politics, groups of people manage to control both the gov and opposition, so your vote become useless.

UK closes UFO hotline

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:14:48 +0000

After 50 years without any clear evidence, United Kingdom decided it’s wise to close down the UFO hotline.

Objects in the mirror are losing

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:04:29 +0000

Odd Clouds

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:36:18 +0000

What’s your favorite programming language?

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:24:15 +0000

This was first discussed 18 years ago. Let’s take a look and see how to shoot yourself in the foot using a programming language in 2009.

First you don’t even know nor care what the hell Modula-2, FORTRAN, BASIC or COBOL is.

JAVA
After importing java.awt.right.foot.* and java.awt.gun.right.hand.*, and writing the classes and methods of those classes needed, you’ve forgotten what the hell you’re doing.

AWK
You shoot yourself in the foot in no time, but then you realized you used 100 guns, 230 bullets, and 23 feet… what a waste.

C++
You accidentally create a dozen clones of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can’t tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, “That’s me, over there.”

HTML+CSS
You have everything you need, but the gun cannot shoot in a different div and your foot doesn’t fit in the same div with the gun. You remember some old html tricks and manage to do the shooting. After a while you realize that Errors found while checking this document as XHTML 1.0 Transitional!

PHP
You shoot yourself in the foot with a gun made with pieces from 300 other guns.

LISP
You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds…

Pascal
The compiler won’t let you shoot yourself in the foot.

Assembly
You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover you must first reinvent the gun, the bullet, and your foot. After that’s done, you pull the trigger, the gun beeps several times, then crashes.

Python
You try to shoot yourself in the foot but you just keep hitting the whitespace between your toes.

ASP.NET
Find a gun, it falls apart. Put it back together, it falls apart again. You try using the .GUN Framework, it falls apart. You stab yourself in the foot instead.

Linux
Generous programmers from around the world all join forces to help you shoot yourself in the foot for free.

C
You shoot yourself in the foot.

Man vs Cheese

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:17:10 +0000

It’s an annual event held at Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth, England. It used to be attended only by locals, but now many people from around the world are interested and some of them even participate. The rules are very simple: from the top of the hill, a round of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled and competitors chase after it. The first to reach the finish line, wins. Sometimes competitors and even spectators get injured, therefore some paramedics are always around.