Posts tagged with: welcome to my geekdom

…it’s a part of my rock and roll fantasy…

It just will never get cooler than this. I wish I could remember where I found this image. Bonus: two of these people are Canucks. Can you guess which ones?

For some reason, I needed to hear Devo’s “Whip It”, so I headed over to YouTube and found this:

“Whip It!” by Devo

I was just a kid when that song came out, but I still love it. The video is a little questionable, though—slightly racist, slightly misogynistic. Still, gotta love that song.

I had to make that a link, because embedding of that video has been disabled at the request of Devo, which is a bit of a pisser, because it’s not taking anything away from them for people to watch a video hosted on their YouTube channel which is displayed here. Hosers.

Published on 4 April 2012 at 1:00 pm

How Not to Get Help From a Help Forum

This post is a parody of my “How to Get Help from a Help Forum” post. Since some people find themselves offended by it, I thought I would create a special set of rules and guidelines just for them. If you don’t understand what parody is, please don’t read this post. You’ll just get your …read more…

how to annoy the easily annoyed…

As a lot of you know, I work as a moderator at the Graphene forum. Graphene is easily the most customizable theme for WordPress, which is the software I use to run all my blogs. On any given week, I spend between 10 and 30 hours helping folks out there, all in my spare time, …read more…

digital man…

which superhero are you?

So I took this quiz thing on the internet (which means it is completely legitimate and totally accurate, right?) Your results: You are Green Lantern Green Lantern 75% Superman 65% The Flash 65% Spider-Man 60% Batman 60% Supergirl 60% Robin 50% Hulk 50% Iron Man 50% Wonder Woman 30% Catwoman 25% Hot-headed. You have strong …read more…

How the new “Star Trek” movie should have ended.

I was really looking forward to the latest Star Trek movie (i.e., the one from Jar Jar Abrams), but it turned out to be just a tired retread of the last Star Trek movie: ugly Romulans (read: foreigners, illegal aliens, Arabs, people from India, Muslims, people with beards, Mexicans, Democrats, people with turbans, people with …read more…

you are now free to wander about the cabin…

Not long after the aluminium incarceration came to an end, I wanted to spend a great deal of time reading. Reading has always been one of the great pleasures in my life, but a guilty pleasure. All that time spent reading really should be spent doing something productive, or so my inner Puritan told me. …read more…

a thought about the upcoming US election cycle…

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion than democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov For a really cool picture of Isaac Asimov, check on this art print by Rowena. For more information about Isaac …read more…

Not Quite Black Bean Soup

Some time ago, I bookmarked this recipe and wanted very desperately to make it, but never had the time. It was hot today (over 80°), but in a few days the temperature is expected to drop almost thirty degrees. So I figured that today would be a good day to make it because like all …read more…

to boldly go where yeah, whatever…

Something weird happened to me a few years ago. I was at my parents’ house, surfing through the channels they get more or less to justify my position on television: I pay nothing and get about twenty channels, of which only one or two rarely have something worth watching, so why should I pay $50 …read more…

How to Get Help from a Help Forum

I participate in a lot of help forums on the internet, and I was recently made a moderator on the Graphene theme for WordPress forum, which has been a tremendous opportunity for me to help others. This post is based on those experiences, both asking for help and giving help. While some of the advice …read more…

mechanical things, apparently…

what scares you? It’s been a heck of a week, and I’m not sure about the current status of a lot of things, but I have figured out one thing that’s definitely sure: I’m not in the mood to like machines. I’ve never really liked machines all that much to begin with, but after working …read more…