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A Geek On Everest
mysterious_mark writes "Recently I was recruited by Altitude Films to be the IT geek for a filming expedition to the north side of Mount Everest. I have written an account of my experience. It is a tale of high latency, low bandwidth, blown hard drives, and frozen fingers. Summit day is June 14th. See the expedition's site for the overall picture (caution: total Flash site)."
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"Half way up mount everest, you insensitive clod".
If it was me, I wouldn't have filmed on the side of Mt. Everest. If I ever get the time and money, I'm going to climb to the top of The Mountain with a laptop and a monster of a directional wifi antenna, sit at its peak, come to slashdot, and comment "frist pots frum EVEREST."
You will all envy me. Or mod me as troll. I'M THE MOUNTAIN TROLL.
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From the article:
Apparently all he's missing a cape with a big fat S on his chest.
We should all know by now if he were truly a geek he would have at least spelled 31337 correctly.
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Anybody else read that when they saw the headline? I was like "A Geek on Everquest? Tell me something I don't know!" :-D
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A geek on Everest??? Why is his moms basement all the way up there?!
"a record that of course cannot be beaten."
Btw, I don't like claims likes that. Who's to say that I couldn't fly up to the summit in my helicopter with a bunch of materials, build an elevated landing pad, then take off from that thus setting a new altitude record! Who's with me?! Any billionaires out there with cash burning a hole in their pocket, please contact me as I proclaim exclusive, patented, trademarked, and copyrighted rights to this idea!
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You misspelled Everquest.
Flash is an abomination unto God. The eleventh commandment was, "Thou shalt not be a complete ignoramus, for Flash is not a true standard."
Alas, while lost in the desert, the chosen worshiped golden idols, and all things shiny, and did hold presentation more dear than God or standards or content. And so the internet did become a desert also, bereft of intelligence and littered with the bones of broken websites and pages inaccessible to those not of the tribes of Adobe.
In his wrath, God sent down a plague of locusts to eat the flesh of the fallen, and the fallen did tear out their eyes and wail in agony, and the plague's names were Microsoft and Adobe.
At least, that's what my New Geek International Version says.
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