Good? Evil? Awesome?

My wife sent me this the other day, and I think it's definitely worth passing along:


She's got good taste in humour and men!

Truth (in comic form)

My career in online gaming started back in 1988, playing some text-based precursor to StarCraft on a local BBS. My gaming adventures eventually wound through games like NHL '95 PVP over modems, Diablo2 on Battle.net, Counterstrike, up to World Of Warcraft (all PC games, of course - as a true nerd, I don't do consoles).
Having such a lengthy history of online gaming is one of the main reasons I found this comic at the Oatmeal so compelling (click to see the whole thing):

Trolling for fanbois

A buddy of mine linked to this picture entitled "How to inspire Nerd Rage":


Infuriating, ain't it?

Hockey Nerds?

It's no secret I love hockey and computers, and other than looking up stats online, I rarely get the opportunity to enjoy both of them together. Let's just say that when I'm strapping on the goalie pads in the dressing room, very few of the guys on the team get the point of my Splunk "I see dead servers" t-shirt.

So when I heard Mike Commodore had signed up with the Detroit Red Wings, I had to smile when I heard that he might try to use his name and choice of jersey number to stir up a little geek humour. He tweeted that he was thinking of debuting the number sixty-four with his new team this season.

What nerd worth his salt wouldn't enjoy seeing this circle around on the ice?


Puck Daddy has started a pledge drive to try and convince Mike to use that number for the 2011-12 season. So far they've received pledges of over three thousand dollars that they're offering to donate to a charity of Commodore's choice if he uses that number. I might just cough up US$64 (what's that in Canadian dollars these days - 20 bucks?) and actually watch a Red Wings game to see that jersey in the NHL!

H/T to Mike Brownstein.

Beavis and Butthead Returning?

It's apparently true. The original is not even 20 years old yet (and it has only been off the air since 1997 - I can't believe that show lasted 4 years!), but it's looking to make a return. I'm curious as to how successful it'll be. Metal isn't nearly as popular now as it was when B&B was mocking pop music back in the early-to-mid 90's (and even then, metal was on a long, slow decline, being taken over by the emergence of rap music into the mainstream). I think the show's saving grace is the popularity of snark and pop-culture bashing these days, as evidenced by shows like TMZ.
I hate to admit that I kind of liked the show back in the day. I even bought Beavis & Butthead Do America when it came out on VHS! It was a lot like South Park: mostly just plain offensive, with a couple of intelligent, subversive comments about North American culture sprinkled here and there. Add in the occasional metal song and a lot of mocking of popular music, which made for a couple of decent episodes.
This next decade should be amusing at least, watching as the best and worst of the 1990s gets brought back for this generation to either claim as their own or mock incessantly.

Blackberry Troubleshooting

Here's some dry British wit (do they have another type?) about problems with Blackberries and other fruit-themed technology.

This Seems So Familiar

In this video, the role of my wife talking to our cats and dog will be played by Stephen Fry:



I swear, there are some days where my house sounds almost exactly like that! Plus, our dachshund looks almost exactly like the one in the video (but isn't nearly as well behaved.)

My kind of holy book

I usually detest those smarmy, generic, and touchy-feely religious commercials you see for the Mormons, Catholics, Scientologists, ect. But here's one commercial I find compelling:

Sagittarius!

I figured that this sort of fits what's been going around here lately. Plus, I'll take any opportunity available to link to a Weird Al song!

Piracy and the internet

In "celebration" of the latest copyright protection law recently introduced the the Canadian Conservative government, here's on of my favorite clips from The IT Crowd:

Douchebag culture explained!

I'm getting a little old and out of touch with "youth" culture these days, so it's awfully nice that Garfunkel and Oates put together a guide explaining how to be a perfect douchebag.



Entertaining and informative!