Pro Geek Movement v2.0

Ah, the memories.....

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:40:52 GMT

From hours of obsessive entertainment to political commentary - Magic: The Gathering - Katrina Expansion Set

x-posted to mshades

Okay. This is my guy.

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:28:54 GMT

Olbermann Swings!

There's always room for funny....

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:53:35 GMT

The Onion, as usual, has all the best coverage....

God Outdoes Terrorists Yet Again

Government Relief Workers Mosey In To Help

NEW ORLEANS—Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael
Brown, leading a detachment of 7,500 relief workers, moseyed on down to
New Orleans Monday afternoon. "Well, I do declare, it's my job to see
if any of these poor folks need any old thing," Brown said from his
command rocker on the command post porch, adding, "Mighty hot day,
ain't it?" Follow-up teams of emergency relief workers are expected to
begin ambling into the Gulf Coast region as early as this weekend.
"They should be getting the trucks good and warmed up anytime now, and
they'll be cruising into town just as soon as all the reservists stroll
in," said Brown, who is currently at his desk awaiting offers of food,
water, and evacuation buses to roll in from "somewhere or other."

x-posted to mshades

How YOU can help

Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:16:45 GMT

Not on community topic at all, but important.

Donate:
https://give.redcross.org/?hurricanemasthead

Volunteer:
http://www.redcross.org/where/chapts.asp

If you can't afford to donate your time or money do this right now:

The Oxygen Women's Network will donate $1 to the relief effort for EVERY person who signs up HERE.

It only takes a few seconds to enter a few bits of information (name, age, zip, and email) and every bit helps</b>.

Clean out your closets!

Old clothes - crap you have laying around your house that you don't want or use anymore, but think could be useful to someone who has lost everything - whatever you have.

I was planning on going through my closets this weekend anyway to get rid of my old clothes. I was probably just going to just throw them out. If anyone else wants to do the same let me know, I'll find out where we can donate them to the cause.

SPREAD THIS AROUND!

I just donated $50 to Red Cross and signed up for the Oxygen Network myself, and I intend to do more.

Geek

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:02:30 GMT

The Deviant Geek
You answered 79% of the questions as a geek truly would.

You're a geek and you know it. You've got all sorts of fringe hobbies and socially unacceptable tendencies. Chances are, whenever possible, you hate to be grouped with other people and sometimes go out of your way just to be different.

You're smart too. You're more willing to depend on your own brainpower to solve problems, instead of relying on others to pull you through life. You probably read a lot, and generally enjoy learning new things.

So what's it all mean? You may be considered by some to be uncool, but you probably don't care either. In social situations you may be either slightly passive or slightly loud (geeks always fall into the extremes). In a nutshell, you answered enough questions correctly supporting a geek philosophy to be considered a more potent geek than 60% of the population.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 67% on geekness

Link: The True Geek Test written by ambientred on OkCupid Free Online Dating

Well, that's it.....

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:52:12 GMT

Fire rips through Eamonn's Pub

And now, a random fact about Vin Diesel....

Tue, 31 May 2005 00:39:09 GMT

Vin Diesel once had cancer, but he coughed out the tumor and then used it to butter his bread.

For all you Star Wars nerds

Fri, 20 May 2005 20:52:25 GMT

http://www.geeksquad.com/content/absentee/work.html

Go here, It is a wonderful way to get out of work.

Wed, 18 May 2005 15:18:15 GMT

http://www.supermasterpiece.com/features/andrew/simulator/simulatorc.html

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:16:09 GMT

OH
MY
GOD

http://gprime.net/video.php/nintendothemesacappella

Come son of Jor-El...kneel before Zod!

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:03:04 GMT

Saw this on someone's Livejournal on Valentines Day and I had to share it.

http://www.generalzod.net/

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:01:12 GMT

This amused me.

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2483385

A must-see website

Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:53:03 GMT

For all you Bible fans out there, and I know you're there -

Back of the Bible

It's a quick look at some of the more obscure Old Testament books where... Well, the author describes it as:

"For every chapter about Jesus wind-sprinting across a lake to tell you how much he loves kittens, there's another with God making a smoking peasant fireball because they sacrificed a goat to Him with the wrong knife."

It's that kind of tone. It actually reminds me a great deal of the old Seanbaby Superfriends website - same style to it. I laughed out loud several times, most of all at this line, describing God in the Book of Zephaniah (I didn't know there was a Book of Zephaniah, did you?) where he threatens ance again to wipe out every living thing from the planet Earth:

"In movies, the lunatic threatening to kill everybody because they don't love him enough is the guy Bruce Willis shoots a lot of times. In the Bible, it's the guy Bruce Willis prays to."

It's really, really funny. Go look.

x-posted to mshades

First Annual LiveJournal Rabbit Hole Day

Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:22:25 GMT

via superflow

Quote:

January 27th is the birthday of Lewis Carroll, author of ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Alice fell down a rabbit hole into a place where everything had changed and none of the rules could be counted on to apply anymore. I say, let's do the same: January 27th, 2005 should be the First Annual LiveJournal Rabbit Hole Day. When you post on that Thursday, instead of the normal daily life and work and news and politics, write about the strange new world you have found yourself in for the day, with its strange new life and work and news and politics. Are your pets talking back at you now? Has your child suddenly grown to full adulthood? Does everyone at work think you're someone else now? Did Bush step down from the White House to become a pro-circuit tap-dancer? Did Zoroastrian missionaries show up on your doorstep with literature in 3-D? Have you been placed under house arrest by bizarre insectoid women wielding clubs made of lunchmeat?

Let's have a day where nobody's life makes sense anymore, where any random LJ you click on will bring you some strange new tale. Let's all fall down the Rabbit Hole for 24 hours and see what's there. It will be beautiful.

For consideration: this only works if you spread the word, of course, but three and a half weeks is forever in LJ Meme Time.

Spread the word.....

x-posted to mshades

Cyber-Claus 2007

Sat, 25 Dec 2004 00:11:15 GMT

From William Gibson's weblog:

Cyber-Claus

Quote: " In the night of 12/24/07, though sensors woven through the very fabric of the house had thus far registered a complete absence of sentient bio-activity, I found myself abruptly summoned from a rare, genuine and expensively induced examples of that most priceless of states, sleep."

New Yorkers will appreciate this....

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:47:10 GMT

Alien loves Predator

Sat, 04 Dec 2004 00:25:13 GMT

hello everyone, i fell that some of you might find the idea of a hydrogen powerd squirtgun to be somwhat stimulating

the plaqns can be found at www.scitoys.com under thermodynamics

Holy CRAP!!!!

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 21:45:36 GMT

This is SOOOOO cool!

Caution: May cause dizziness or nausea.

http://www.cyphic.net/zoomquilt/zoom.htm

(x-posted to squange cuz it's so f'n cool!)

This isn't quite how I remember it....

Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:27:53 GMT

Did you notice the climactic final space battle? Or the burning sharks? Maybe I had one of those revisionist English teachers...

How To Kill a Mockingbird

Popeye-san! Help us!

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:45:25 GMT

Popeye takes on Anime....

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:16:46 GMT

Went to see National Treasure today, and there was a teaser trailer for the new Hitchhiker's Guide movie. You can find it here. Along with a buddy icon of Warwick Davis as Marvin the paranoid android.

http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/

:)

Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:38:34 GMT

A new way to communicate effectively.....

Communications Skills

Practical applications of robotics

Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:32:11 GMT

This is how we prevent the Matrix dystopia!

Send in the BarBot! (mov)

My, that Dark Side is seductive....

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:32:15 GMT

Opened my email this morning to find that the Teaser trailer for Episode III is now online...

Please let this kick ass, oh please, please, please.....

x-posted to mshades

The Morning After

Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:07:45 GMT

I'm still a little in disbelief over the Election result. When I got home last night I listened to Kerry's concession speech and his call for unity and an end to the warring between the 2 sides of this election.

And for a split second I felt maybe he had a point.

But for just a split second.

As nice as that sentiment sounds, it is also incredibly naïve and foolish. Kerry is saying what he is expected to say as a gracious loser. He is not saying what he *really* thinks.

Bush does not want unity between the people. He wants us all at each other’s throats because as long as we are all fighting amongst ourselves, no one is minding the store. No one is holding his ass accountable for the shit he is getting away with. He wants us indifferent and watching reality TV instead of reading a fucking newspaper or a book from time to time.

Unless of course it’s his favorite fictional works: My Pet Goat and The Bible.

He is likely going to appoint the next Supreme Court justice and at least two more judges.

The Republicans control the White House, the Senate and the House.

That’s 3 for 3, for those of us who can’t add. That being the 51% that handed it to them on a silver fucking platter.

I wonder if those 51% who elected him because they think he will protect them will feel the same when he sends their children off to die in his war. Or what they would think about the fact that the Bush and Bin Laden families are old friends.

Anyone who thinks the Democrats, Independents, or whatever else who are outraged and angry right now are over reacting are either a) an ignorant fuck who can’t see what’s right in front of them or b) a supporter of this madman.

Bare that in mind when you speak to people. Democrats lost many elections this past Tuesday for being all over the place. For not agreeing on enough things and presenting a strong united front and a strong simple message. We need to band together and have some unified goals or we are going to be pitted against one another and picked off one by one.

The masses are meek and they are foolish. But if we don’t win the mob, we don’t win the elections.

How do we do that? Offhand, I have no idea. But I am open to suggestions.

And anyone who thinks they can stand by and wait out the next 4 years or that none of this really matters is just as dangerous as someone who willingly cast their lot with this demon.

I’ve posted this before and I will post it again.

"We must always fear the wicked. But there is another kind of evil that we must fear the most, and that is the indifference of good men".

If the masses are to be sheep, then those of us who are not easily cowed and easily lead must become their shepards.

“And Shepards we shall be”.

Hope for the best... but plan for the worst. That's my advice to you all.

And Mr. Presdient... we WILL be watching.