Archive for November, 2006

The Idiot Box.

Facetious descriptions?

My take on the shows I watch:

  • Invasion:

    A show written by a bunch of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Fired.

  • Prison Break:

    Prison Break is the kind of story you get from a group of 10 or 12-year olds. Kid A, “Yeah, let’s have him drill a hole in the wall with an egg beater! I mean, he is super smart and knows how to do things like that!” Kid B, “Okay! And then…”

    NOTE: I enjoy Prison Break.

  • Battlestar Galactica:

    Donatien Alphonse François, marquis de Sade. “Oh, you are attached to that character emotionally? Well, how do you like it when we destroy the character’s life? Does it hurt? Are you going to watch next week? Of course you are. You know you like it.”

  • LOST:

    LOST is that hot chick next door who never puts out. You know, she calls you up and says, “Look out your window,” and proceeds to do a little strip tease act all for you. So you, being a guy, figure you should try to go over and score. Alas, you arrive at her door and she is wearing a granny dress. “Hi. What are you doing here,” she asks. Total tease. PUT OUT YOU BITCH!

  • 24:

    Imagine travelling across the U.S. in a VW Beetle being driven at break-neck speeds by a drunk Kimi Matias Räikkönen (F1 driver). From the back seat Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Anton Wilson, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. tell you a story. The trip will change your life.

    If you live.

Now, GO WATCH TV!

Pirate! Pirates! Pirating!

Dilemma: A Story of a Man and His New Toy.

Work and money changes everything thing for RD, “whenever my pay grade goes up i find less and less excuse to pirate.” But as the saying goes, “old habits die hard.”

  • RD: when i opened the ipod there was a sticker on it to tell me to renounce pirating shit
  • RD: do i have to do that?
  • ME: it is up to you.
  • RD: or pretend to not understand english
  • ME: You can be a godless communist or a fine upstanding consumer. The choice is yours.
  • BN: Or a fine upstanding godless consumer.
  • NARRATOR: Later in the conversation.
  • Godless Communist (GC): piracy is less harmful than buying from allofmp3.
  • GC: if you pirate things from usenet or BT trackers that you would not have paid for, the money isn’t misused.

So, which are you, gentle reader, a godless communist, a fine and upstanding consumer, or a fine, upstanding and godless consumer?

eXtreme Pirating!

Not being satisfied with selling knockoffs, someone in China went that eXtra yard, or meter:

After two years and thousands of hours of investigation in conjunction with law enforcement agencies in China, Taiwan and Japan, the company said it had uncovered something far more ambitious than clandestine workshops turning out inferior copies of NEC products. The pirates were faking the entire company.

The Rest of The Story.

Creative Use of Time.

The Power of Flickr Sets.

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My favorites:

  • NSFW: Boobies in the workplace. Bad ju-ju.
  • NOOB: We all have that friend or relative stuck in the early 20th Century.
  • RTFM: A majority of all software issues can be solved by a) using cmd + shift + ? [Help], b) reading the READ ME!, or c) just looking at the apps preference settings. Really simple stuff here.

Comments

What viewers had to say about a few of the photos:

Everyone, thank DDA for this find.

“What is Real?”

The Matrix.

So, this guy in Sydney grabbed his camera, found the locations from scenes in the Matrix, photographed them, and then posted the pictures on flickr. Here they are: Sydney Matrix Locations.