Someone has a problem with their “WAP” installation…
I want a PWNy
Category: humor
Stuff I found that was funny.
Web development as torture
Apparently one commenter found my April Fools article “ham-handed.”
ham-hand⋅ed
clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
I’m sorry that some people didn’t realize that an article was meant to show off someone else’s April Fool’s prank. I guess the snippets of code showing the joke, putting it in the “humor” category, and adding the words “april phails phools” to the URL just wasn’t enough for some people 🙁
Next time, in order to prevent hurt feelings, I’ll be sure splay across the top the words: “Look, Phails is an April Fools Joke, Please don’t take it seriously (pretty please?)” in 42-point Charcoal typeface.
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On second thought, why bother? 37Signals has me beat in the tact and sensitivity department. Notice how they introduce Ruby on Rails as…
Great moments in Truth in Advertising™ just ask Twitter.
(And when I replied that this was madness, he kicked me into some CAT-5 ethernet cabling with the words, “THIS IS SPARTA!!!”)
(I heard that Web development is so hard that Rasmus had John Yoo write up a torture memo lest any Guantamano detainees put up a website between waterboarding sessions.)
Thank God, that I learned Ruby on Rails so I no longer have to deal with the pain of writing a SQL select.
My first R rated movie
Me: I’m an innocent.
Mager: I believe you are secretly not innocent.
Me: I have gaps.
Me: Hmm… I should blog that.
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Maybe I should have saved this for a Seven Things post, but my first R-rated movie was Quest for Fire. I saw it with my mom.
Here’s what happened.
My dad felt that it would be okay if my brother saw an R-rated movie for his birthday party, but there was no way C—’s mom would allow C— to see Porky’s. But, somehow Quest for Fire was okay because it was “an art film.” My mom had to chaperone my-brother’s-friends-whose parents-weren’t-cool-enough-to-let-them-see-Porky’s… and me.
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My brother finally did catch my first R-rated movie in cable when he was in college. Of course he was shocked because Quest for Fire puts Porky’s to shame.
When he recounted that observation to my parents, I added, “I remember seeing that. I hated it because there was no speaking, only grunting.”
“Haha! You were like nine!”
“That was a horrible movie!” Mom rejoined, “I had to put my hand in front of Terry’s eyes for nearly thing. And he kept shouting, ‘Mommy, mommy are they done pumping yet?’ The whole theatre could hear it. I was so embarrassed.”
Ahh! Quest for Fire—one of those movies that makes you wonder What the fuck was MPAA ratings board was smoking at that night?
Kid Tested, NotNSFW! Watch the movie. Jean-Jacques Annaud lays the smack down on the pr0n industry when he gets rid of the dialog entirely.
Financial smackdown
Two weeks ago, Matt Taibbi wrote an impressive article using A.I.G. as an anecdote for the failure of the economy.
Last week, one of the most e-mailed articles in the New York Times was the resignation letter of an A.I.G. Financial Products executive, Jake DeSantis.
So, of course, he had to respond.
Oh my! :-O
The origin of my affinity with Asian culture, which is frankly superior
Reading a friend’s blog via vanity feed, I thought…
Whee! Me!
I don’t know how many times I’ve successfully argued a woman into dating me. Let me think about it…
I guess I’ll have to go with “None.”
I don’t know why I have bad luck. I’m very intelligent, I’m great in bed, I make great money. Believe it or not, I’m a complete catch. 🙁
Perhaps I need to be a little on the chubby side?
Clearly I need this t-shirt
Don’t worry, Ladies of the Internet (pref. Nihonese), I’ll wait while you look up passive-aggressive personality disorder. 😀
(Thanks to Andrei for alighting me to these gems over the past year, his kevorka notithstanding.)
Love is a fallacy
Campaign manager humor
Mike Murphy was once the chief political strategist of John McCain’s campaign. He recently posted some zingers about Palin’s wardrobe malfunction. Here is one:
Q: What’s the difference between a Pit Bull and a Hockey Mom?
A: You can feed a pit-bull for 483 years with 150 grand.
Bring Tina Fey to Michigan!
Last week, McCain pulled out of Michigan, the state parties’ reactions there is highly amusing…
The Republican party there is apparently petitioning for Sarah Palin to visit Michigan in an attempt to prevent McCain from giving up on them.
The Democratic party there decided to “help” their brothers out by petitioning to bring actress Tina Fey to Michigan.
Continue reading about Tina Fey/Sarah Palin CNN video after the jump
Erect to Climax
While reading the comments on Balloon Juice:
“…and it takes 35 minutes to get from Erect to Climax, in NC.”
Really?
Google Maps didn’t have it but you can find Erect in Wikipedia
I CAN HAS BOOKZ?
I got a mysterious package and opened it. No, it wasn’t a unabomb, but some megalulz instead:
I Can Haz Cheezburger?:A LOLcat Colleckshun will be released October 7, but I got a copy in the mail today.
The book is from lulzftw, and is a best-of collection of lolcats—slightly disappointed that there are no lolgeeks. 😀
Mai awesum benny faktor tells me they’re having a book release party and photowalk later this month in San Francisco.
I think I’ll make one and give my book to the first person who asks (and I have it on me).
Make the events and you can has (mai or ur) bookz, too! 🙂
kthnxbai