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Is there something wrong with the After Y2K Slashdot Gladiators poster? Or this classic pool shot?

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Is there something wrong with the After Y2K Slashdot Gladiators poster? Or this classic pool shot?

Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected

No thanks! But Nitrozac knows what a geek-girl wants: Linus!

Oh yes, Nitrozac knows...

No thanks! But Nitrozac knows what a geek-girl wants: Linus!

Oh yes, Nitrozac knows...

(See this link after Friday 12 May.)
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I'm a fairly busy person, and to me this sounded like a godsend: I could tape shows that aired while I was at work or away on business...

In today's cartoon over on After Y2K, he appears in pixelated form... OMG ...he's a YODA!

Hey Jon, how does it feel.... you're the cartoon character you've always strived to be!

There's also some good posts over there in Nitrozac's message board... hee hee!

In today's cartoon over on After Y2K, he appears in pixelated form... OMG ...he's a YODA!

Hey Jon, how does it feel.... you're the cartoon character you've always strived to be!

There's also some good posts over there in Nitrozac's message board... hee hee!

...(not even counting weekends!) according to Nitrozac. I gotta get me that job. :-)

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Anyone for a trip through Microsoft's SOul Sucking Booth"?
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Boy, Nitrozac really prettyed you boys upo for your appearances in After Y2K, didn't she?

Boy, Nitrozac really prettyed you boys upo for your appearances in After Y2K, didn't she?

Cya!
bBob

So far, Nitrozac hasn't featured you as a character in her cartoon After Y2K.

Considering she had included such geeky Linux celebrities as Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond, and Rob and Hemos, does this bug you, or effect your business decisions in any way, and how far would you go in order to get her to include you?

In fact, isn't it true that the whole Corel Linux thing is just an attempt to be immortalized in After Y2K?

So far, Nitrozac hasn't featured you as a character in her cartoon After Y2K.

Considering she had included such geeky Linux celebrities as Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond, and Rob and Hemos, does this bug you, or effect your business decisions in any way, and how far would you go in order to get her to include you?

In fact, isn't it true that the whole Corel Linux thing is just an attempt to be immortalized in After Y2K?

how can you say transmeta is not driven by their marketing department? This secrecy has been the marketer's dream... everyone in the technosphere has been debating their merits endlessly. People have attributed to them everything from an Athlon-killer to a giant reality-altering abacus.

engineers, maybe. but marketing-savvy, too.

People learn by being stretched, not by being pampered.

Just like muscles, the brain has to be worked to stay strong.
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As recently pointed up by Nitrozac (herself a major geek-babe) in After Y2Y. This is their first "in-person" appearence in the strip.

Hedy Lamarr (besides being a sex symbol) helped design and patent spread-spectrum wireless technologies that were half a century ahead of their time.

Not that far ahead. Her scheme for spread spectrum (also known as frequency hopping) involved synchronizing frequencies using player-piano rolls. She in fact got the idea while playing a piano duet with one of her children. A truly innovative idea, but one well within the technology of the time.

As recently pointed up by Nitrozac (herself a major geek-babe) in After Y2Y. This is their first "in-person" appearence in the strip.

Hedy Lamarr (besides being a sex symbol) helped design and patent spread-spectrum wireless technologies that were half a century ahead of their time.

Not that far ahead. Her scheme for spread spectrum (also known as frequency hopping) involved synchronizing frequencies using player-piano rolls. She in fact got the idea while playing a piano duet with one of her children. A truly innovative idea, but one well within the technology of the time.

This is exactly what I was thinking.

If Verne "Mini-Me" Troyer can make it into a many-page pictoral for Christmas as "Mini-Hef" ...

...why can't we have "St IGNUcius' Happy Happy hacking run"?

Starring the girls of the mansion as the The Techno-Talking Babes(TM)?

Have you ever seen Nitrozac's web comic After Y2K?

Your cartoon duplicate plays a recurring role, and often has the best lines :) . I know Nitrozac is a big fan of Woz, are you by chance a fan of Nitrozac, and what's it like being such an inspiration to other geeks.

Well, the Techno-Talking Babes have tried to fix reality and returned to their own future, but they will not be able to see the alternative reality that we are living in because of the "Real Millennium Bug" reacting with the effects of the chrono-tidal wave that whipped the TTB's back in their world (?). The Geek did have a problem with his abacus, after all.
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I'm a big fan of Nitrozac's comic... I think it's one of the smartest and funniest things to come out of the 20th century.

What's bugging me lately, besides that millennium thingy... is why do normally intelligent people (including Cmdr Taco) assume the comic will be ending? (Nitrozac has made it very clear that it won't be ending, and that the comic will continue!)

Perhaps they suffer from some kind of Y2-Brain Bug that prevents them from reading the first word of a two word title? After all...the comic is called After Y2K!

Oh Nitrozac... cheers on standing up to the agalmatophilic idiots that try their hardest to spoil things around here! All the best in the New Year!

I'm a big fan of Nitrozac's comic... I think it's one of the smartest and funniest things to come out of the 20th century.

What's bugging me lately, besides that millennium thingy... is why do normally intelligent people (including Cmdr Taco) assume the comic will be ending? (Nitrozac has made it very clear that it won't be ending, and that the comic will continue!)

Perhaps they suffer from some kind of Y2-Brain Bug that prevents them from reading the first word of a two word title? After all...the comic is called After Y2K!

Oh Nitrozac... cheers on standing up to the agalmatophilic idiots that try their hardest to spoil things around here! All the best in the New Year!

As a solution to the shortage of Linux domain names, why not ask ICANN to add a .linux or .lin domain name? We could all get our Linux domain names easily, and Linux help and resources would be easier to find.

Also, why would anyone really worry that linuxbob.com is taken? Does this really matter? Unless a Linux Guru named Bob wants a domain name, why worry about it? I can understand linuxpop.com, and all of the other ones.

Internet.com's takeover is just another sign that Linux is becoming mainstream. Internet.com realized that they weren't on the Linux bandwagon, and they wanted to be. The buyout also foreshadows things to come. Linux distros and resource sites will be bought up like crazy. Don't be suprised if Symantec or some other fairly powerful Windows products company buys a distro (not Red Hat, because of it's market power, but SuSE, Mandrake, etc.).

Hey, could anyone do me a favor? I'm in this contest for a look-a-like of a character in after Y2k, this comic strip. Could anyone go to http: //www.geekculture.com/geekycomics/Aftery2k/lookali kecontest/gallery.html and vote for geek number 1? Please?

I don't know... a bunch of MTV people trapped in an underground bunker.... really, the thought holds a certain appeal for me, if only because it reminds me of that old Twilight Zone where Burgess Meredith gets trapped in that library during the Apocalypse and then breaks his glasses. Imagine the looks on their faces when the power goes out and they realize No One Is Watching Them. At that point, it's just a short countdown to Lord of the Flies.

IMHO, it's not just Fox that are at fault here, it's commerical "web design" in general. Ever notice how places like PCWeek, Altavista, mp3.com, and many -- many -- others use pages replete with br and such to force the 640x480 look on people? Most of the time it's not even centred, forcing me to stare at the left 30% of my monitor.

There is no excuse why this should be. Give me my content, give it to me nicely, and, damnit, let me view it in my browser window at proper scaling. There was an artcle on some site about Slashdot long ago. I had to use Opera to magnify the page view 300% for it to show the "content" at a decent size in my 1024x768 desktop. When I started using Linux exclusively (with Windows as a glorfied Nintendo), the problem was exacerbated by the simple fact that the pages designed to look great at 640x480 also assumed a bunch of fonts (which I did later setup, thanks to the ttf font server in the Slackware contrib dir).

Why bother to take the time, spend lots of your company moola, only to come up with a hard-coded, useless, junky site?

Flash? Great -- what's the point? Slow downloads suck, and I'm on a cable modem! The only site I've seen to use Flash in a compelling way (in terms of "mainstream" sites), is After Y2K. With Cascading Style Sheets, it is trivial to implement really nice looking sites that scale well. Netscape, Opera, and (gahck) IE support CSS very well, as does Mozilla. With Lynx, it's a non-issue ;-)

If anyone doesn't understand what I mean, go look at my webserver (Thock.com) for an example of how I write my HTML (which is all hand written, and generally tested well). I'll also welcome any comments anyone has on my HTML, I am writing an HTML primer, and related, documents for the webserver.
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Hacker Hats
are pretty cool. I got one with a propellor and I love it. It lets me join that long geek tradition of wearing a beanie, but still appear menacing to my boss. ;-)

I'll let the ad speak for itself....

"Our caps aren't like those goofy joke ones you'll feel like a nerd wearing. ;-) These are the Rolls Royces of Propellor Caps, ...quality beanies for seriously fashion-conscious geeks!"

I'm in awe too, even before Y2K! :-)

Ref: Fawn's in AWE

(Abacus or no abacus)

...will come to an end on January 1st. That would be a real disaster to this fan. Long Live After Y2K!

Don't forget one of the most addictive drugs of all, Nitrozac!

A server named Nitrozac won't need booted often, but oh, those boots!

As I browsed the After Y2K page, I saw a picture of what is supposed to be Illiad. Is that what Illiad is supposed to look like? What is the source picture Nitrozac for that drawing anyways?

After the Andover.net IPO, Hemos can afford a huge mansion.... perhaps like the one Bill Gates has. Just make sure the bathroom is Y2K compliant .

Seriously.... I hope everything turns out ok for you, Hemos.

At what point am I going to stop just reading about the culture and the people (else) and all the neat toys and actually become a geek myself? This sort of work depresses me in a big way - I have nothing to show for all the effort I put into learning the systems and languages. Sure, I'm only 2nd year university, and I never even thought much about writing software before last year (except in vague fantasies)!
At the same time, though, I think reading things like this extensively before even starting any of my planned projects (and I've been planning and planning!) will ultimately help me do the right thing in all the things I do.
One can hope, anyway!

*N

Nitrozac has the real answers, check out her TransMeta Secret Lab.

She also revealed they have discovered the entrance to the Hollow Earth... I believe her.

And now, the really important question everyone wants to ask... What is it like being immortalized as a cartoon character on Nitrozac's After Y2K! Looking buff by the way!

Oh, will you be speaking at Abacus World Expo? ;-)

And now, the really important question everyone wants to ask... What is it like being immortalized as a cartoon character on Nitrozac's After Y2K! Looking buff by the way!

Oh, will you be speaking at Abacus World Expo? ;-)

A Cyberclysm...is that anything like the Geek Apocalypse?

I really think that many of the people who believe humanity will destroy itself via Cyberclysm are extremists. I find myself have a hard time even imagining it. Not that I don't recognize society's dependence on technology, electricity in particular.

I see advances in this kind of technology as tools and venues of entertainment. Technology has great potential for increasing productivity, such as the computer. The problem is when they are not properly implemented (such as bad, unreliable software *ahem*).

My computer has replaced television. I don't own a TV, I own a TV card, which I will occasionally hook up to a VCR or a pair of rabbit-ears, but I do not subscribe to cable TV, and I certainly don't watch ten hours worth of shows. I wouldn't skim five hundred channels, even if I could. That saves me twelve hours already!

Most things I can see on TV I can find on the Internet. The same goes with the newspaper, except when I read /. or other news sources, I can easier narrow the content to what interests me, and the news is normally much more recent (as in a can pick up a newspaper, scan the front page and check off the articles "old news, old news, old news").

I'm a computer engineering student. I don't own a cell phone, or a pager, and I don't need one. My personal telephone dates back to the Calgary Olympics. The _only_ thing hooked up to the Internet is my computer. I intend to buy a PDA, but only to replace my less convenient pen-and-paper agenda. I don't own a car, nor do I have regular access to one.

I will admit that there so many unnecessary gadgets out there. But they are not inherently wrong. It is only the misuse and growing dependence on these gadgets that could bring down humanity. As for me, if the Cyberclysm happens in my lifetime, I'll look forward to the Abacus World Expo (see After Y2K for details).

Well, this explains the Nolton Nash reference :-)
Now, I doubt she's in Saskatchewan (know on wood).
But then, I'm willing to move ;-)

Disclaimer: This is harmless flirtation/hero worship.

So, doesn't Geek's recent affair with Dawn make you a bit jealous?

Nitrozac has a many meanings, mostly it sounds like an interesting form of medicaton ;)

I put this answer in for all the AY2Kers who enjoyed the what's the source code of your essence? QuickPoll.

Here's some proof.

please work

Besides, I doubt she lives in Canada (arg).

Actually, she does live in Canada.

(Hmm, what's that screaming sound I hear from the north??)

Wasn't it just a day or two ago that /. had a link to the ghost of the great Ada Byron. Yet I haven't seen her mentioned anywhere in these posts.

What do you think of the Nitrozac Boot Squad? Does it sometimes worry you having all these pale and pasty geeks with flabby bottoms with fetishes for your feet? (And knees, and hands, and hair)

Do you get a lot of slack for running a Mac? Have you any plans to switch to Linux soon?

Do you consider yourself a techno-talking babe? Where did you get the idea for the techno-talking babes, are they based on anyone you know, or did you just make them up?

When are you going to have more comics of Linus Torvalds back on there? Mm..

Um, at least Bambi and Dawn are both of African descent (see today's strip).

The ancestry of the TTB's isn't mentioned in any of the strips. However, Nitrozac did mention a couple of them on the message board.

It's certainly not mentioned in today's strip, which involves Dawn and the geek looking at a fly.