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Finally Geeks Available in Action Figure Form
Treebiter1 writes "Happy Worker, a specialty toy developer, has introduced a new action figure the "GeekMan Action Figure." Billed as the "a hunk o' hunk of nerdly love." His "super powers" include ungodly coding abilities; opposite sex repulsion; analytical reasoning; ability to create technical acronyms; less than ideal personal hygiene routine. This is kind of an oddity, perhpas I should say it is an oddity, but it might make a funny gag gift."
Microsoft came out with those action figures a while back... I don't think you can get them anymore though. There were three I think.
Does his super geek powers include the ability to frist post?
I.O.U One Sig.
But does it fart like RMS?
Where do I sue for unauthorized use of my likeness?
If they really want to be geeky, he's got to be the size of those retro floppy disks. Or 8 inches tall but then he couldn't live in a drive bay.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
It'd be cool to be able to fight Darl McBride being Linus =)
or does GeekMan remind you of Bill Gates?
They might consider getting their very own GeekMan to make sure that their site renders properly in Gecko and Opera. :/
All Phear 'Sedentary Man's' l33t 5ki115...
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Pray tell, what action would be accurate? Sitting in a cube staring at a debugger?
It says he's vulnerable to girls of the internet not repelled by them! Do I detect yet another case of one persons misinterpretation in order to justify their own leanings?
For goodness sake! Some people!
Theres always somebody who thinks techies getting root means something completely different.
Sigh! What is the world coming to?
As for the product in question, it is quite funny.
My hyperlinks aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
now of available on thinkgeek?
Come on, Torvalds and McBride action figures? Does anybody not want these? Maybe a Stallman action figure to muddy the waters with periodic confusing rants.
WWJD for a Klondike Bar?
Do not buy a Geekman!!
Since receiving mine for Xmas, I've had nothing but trouble with him!!!
In January, I got a subpoena from the RIAA, saying I was sharing music online (bunk,.. it was Geekman!)
In February, he got sued by SCO for infringing o some kind of pocket pencil holder device!!
In March, he locked himself in my office for a week and a half,... and took my Xbox in there with him!
In April, my family woke up to find all our network logon passwords changed, and we couldn't get online for days.
And, so far, in May, my coffee bill has tripled!!!
This Geekman is nothing but trouble,.. don't buy one!
We could make a whole series, with cartoons and everything! We do off course need some villains. How'bout Darl, Gates, Balmer, (Gore?), anyone else?. They could have a huge villain-castle (with armed guards, shark-pools, doomsdaybuttons and everything!) on a cliff somewhere where they could plan out their world domination schemes, by the means of evil software and huge lawsuits (imagine Darls army of evil lawyers and gates' army of evil coders!)
Then they could get their ass kicked by FOSS-gang (we need a cooler name), and the world could be saved, untill same time next friday (I can hear Darl shouting: "I will come again! Do you hear me!? I will get you the next time! Arrrgh!").
We could earn millions! And this way we can spread the word of FOSS to kids around the world via Cartoon Network! Our own little world-domination scheme, he he (slightly manical laughter). Worth thinking about. Any goot cartoon-artists here? I can write the script! Anyone??
-- If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?
"Filthy Geeks Available in Action Figure Porn"
Maybe its my cutting back on caffine but thats what I first read. Oh dear.
I don't know whether to be flattered or offended. This thing looks just like me except for the glasses.
I strongly suspect that a lot of others making similar remarks are also speaking with tongue in cheek.
You're probably right, after all - that was my point. Programmers et al are no different to the rest of the population in my experience as far as social skills, physique etc go. That's why I'm bored of the stereotype.
Having said all that though, I switched to browsing at -1 and the OP already has three marriage proposals, so maybe we're both wrong.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
Dude, you should be in management.
Table-ized A.I.
...a Goatse doll is just around the corner.
Table-ized A.I.
Plus, he has almost as much personality as a UDP packet.
http://www.happyworker.com/geekman/geekdom/ - An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator.
Stop posing about like a superhero and fix your damn site, Geekman!!!