Archive for the “nerd” Category
Posted on Friday, July 25, 2008 | Filed under: Bad Culture, Dirty Little Consumer, Things That Suck, What the Fuck, nerd
Tagged: consumption, failure, horrible, let down, movie, x-files
I don’t remember the last time I was this disappointed by a movie.
I don’t think I can even finish the series now.
Throwing a psychic into the mix does not make the movie X-File-y. Why was it so disjointed? Why were they living together? All was forgiven?? And why was it [...]
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Posted on Friday, July 25, 2008 | Filed under: Dirty Little Consumer, Geeky, Teevee Is For Losers, nerd
Tagged: awesome, movies, nerdy, teevee, x-files

X-Files: I Want To Believe comes out today and guess who’ll be front and center for it? OH YEAH.
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Posted on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 | Filed under: Amusing & Humorous, Dirty Little Consumer, nerd
Tagged: comparison, journals, linkage, love, nerdery, notebooks, paper, writing
Rands writes a post more akin to a love letter to, than comparison of, notebooks. One excerpt that matches me completely:
… when I see a store with notebooks for sale, I always stop. I examine. I flip the pages and figure out if there is anything new. I do this regardless of current company, country, or convenience. I am a social introvert, but will stop a complete stranger on the street if they’re sporting an unknown notebook.
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Posted on Saturday, May 3, 2008 | Filed under: Bad Society, Dirty Little Consumer, Domesticated, Drunk Blogging, Eat the Rich, Equality & Justice, Feminism, Godbaggery, Good Culture, Good Society, News, Noteworthy, Philosophy, Politics, Pretentious Academic, Retardation, Team America Fuck Yeah, Teevee Is For Losers, The Idiot Masses, Things That Suck, Vanity, What the Fuck, nerd
Tagged: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Philosophy, Politics, Retardation, Team America Fuck Yeah, voting
As discussed with friends, on Tuesday I shall be voting for Barack Obama, which goes contrary to my woman-identified, woman-preferred leanings.
The reason: Hillary Clinton is a MACHINE POLITICIAN (a.k.a. part of the political machine; i.e., just like Mayor Daley of Chicago and Mayor Daley of Chicago-current [a.k.a. Chi-town, a.k.a. The (Da) Region]). [...]
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Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 | Filed under: Pretentious Academic, Vanity, nerd
Tagged: linguistics, LOLCat, nerd, research
#35. A search on the linguistics of the emergent LOLCat pseudo-language brought me to a December 2007 post at Linguistic Mystic in which he examines a discussion for LOLCODE programmers:
I know VISIBLE is the current output command, but it’s so not LOLCAT. What if we used LOL as the output [...]
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