Funny
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Funny
After the Snuke episode of South Park, the cast of 24 actually sent them one of the suitcase nuke props as a gift.
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Quote of the moment
Via CodePoet, and from this page
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. (Nathaniel S Borenstein)
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There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. (Bjarne Stroustrup)
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Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. (Stan Kelly-Bootle)
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Wednesday round up
- 5 Techniques for Enhancing Contrast in Digital Photos
- “Breeding dysentery in the ranks” – the best misuses of the English language in the Sopranos
- What journalists need to know about economics – quite good
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My funniest line from last night
Was when I said “I’ve seen the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by Dave Mathews”, which got a good laugh from my fellow acoustic purists who were going over new material at the open mic last night.
Which I won by the way. I could just barely hear myself in the monitors, but evidently is sounded good in the crowd. I got my guitar showpiece, Bonaparte’s Retreat (in Drop D tuning) mostly right, which is a rare thing.
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The funniest thing I’ve read today
From this Popular Mechanics article on flying cars
Recently, NASA scientists discovered that most people love to play video games but hate to die in fiery airplane crashes
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Quote of the moment
Is Timothy Virkkala saying
The world marches on to the beat of a million monkeys typing the Collected Works of William Shakespeare.
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The best marriage proposal ever
belongs to uber-mathematician John von Neumann
“You and I might be able to have some fun together, seeing as how we both like to drink.”
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This site took a chunk of my day
Overheard at Work – it makes me a bit nostalgic for the old days of the office world.
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I miss Ronald Reagan
Somehow I stumbled upon this quote of his about hippies, to wit a hippie is someone who “dresses like Tarzan, has hair like Jane, and smells like Cheetah.”
Is there anyone on the political scene right now that has come up with a better one liner? Clinton did have a few good ones in the early nineties, but the only pithy statements lately are Rice’s “Franco-American relations work much better in reality than in theory” and Rumsfeld’s response when asked him if he thought the Taliban would fight to the death: “We won’t know that until they’re all dead!”.
Rumsfeld and Rice were appointees though. Have there been any good one-liners by anyone running for the 2008 election?
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The funniest anti-Mac screed yet
via Megan McCardle, here is the best anti-Mac rant so far. Favorite line
Ultimately the campaign’s biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow “define themselves” with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that “says something” about your personality, don’t bother. You don’t have a personality. A mental illness, maybe – but not a personality.
In keeping with the theme, one of Megan’s commenters said this
I knew a guy once who would always tell me that I should buy a BMW like he did, because doing so made “a statement about yourself”.
I came to the conclusion that people who bought products to make statements about themselves were mostly saying they were A-holes.
The best I’ve come up with is “The MacIntosh. It’s too good to be useful!”