Geek vs Life

Saw this on subeta, and had to share this with everyone:

For those of you who can’t read it, the text is as follows:

“THE first divorce directly related to the September 11th terrorist attacks has been filed in New York. It appears a guy with an office on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Centre spent the morning at his girlfriend’s apartment with his phone turned off. He wasn’t watching TV either. When he turned his phone back on at about 11am, it rang immediately. It was his hysterical wife, “Are you OK? Where are you?” He said, “What do you mean? I’m in my office of course!”

Saw this over on Kotaku. Thought the GVL Java Crew might enjoy it.

Deep within the annuls of PAX lore lay stories of this little blue ball, who’s adventures rival that of a red balloon. And, given what we saw in the above video, everyone’s experience with it was different. My own pass at the ball was shortly before a certain incident involving a poster and the Prince of Persia. Meydenbaur Center is a three story building, and it became an eternal struggle to get it up farther and farther. Thankfully, it didn’t actually get on to the roof. It was auctioned for Child’s Play bringing in, if I remember correctly, around $400, and released into the wild again this year by the auction’s winner. It was a heartwarming event.

Joe and I are preparing a stage version of this skit which we will tour across Open Mic nights across Seattle! See you there. (No, not really.)

I’ve been prompted to check out this blog by an atheist blogger who describes himself as “A student of science, he is frustrated by the level of pseudoscience and manipulation vomited daily and the willingness of people to swallow it hook, line and sinker.” The blog in question refers to the fact that according to the bible, Pi=3. Now, I’m no mathematician, but even I know that Pi= 3.1415 (surely Joe will add to this later by letting people know what the 1000th decimal is).

You can read his blog here: Gospel of Reason

I spent the better part of my youth enjoying the wonderful tales from the street, Sesame Street that is.

Even into my teens, when I would stay home because I was sick, the Street would be on my tube, later followed by THE Bob Barker show, The Price Is Right. Other childhood favorites included: Mr. Rogers, Mr. Dress-up, Romper Room, The Friendly Giant, Math Patrol and Today’s Special.

My favorite character was Grover. Recently while searching for his origins I stumbled upon a wonderful biographical tale in which Grover talks about his youth with a father spending all the family money on prostitutes and how he REALLY feels about being replaced by the talentless hack that is Elmo.

See for yourself, read it here.

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Gundam Lantern

That is cool. I want one.

Who is this:

Is it Stan Lee, famed comic creator, or Barry Gibb, member of the Bee Gees? Check out this clip from “To Tell The Truth.” The answer might suprise you!

Here are two things of interest

1)The fonts on the signage has been around since your Grandpa was your age. Here’s a link to a guy’s page that has them all. Make your own signs! (Do yourself a favor and DO NOT use the “Clearview” imitation versions. That’s a clear copyright and intellectual property violation. The older ones are public specification.)

2)Here’s a map of the entire system constructed during the Eisenhower administration. Click on the map to see the full size.

Have a Wii? Do your daily weather checks on Wii Weather? Check out this little island…Erromango.

Heh…