Thank you for the reminder to read that book, I read Accelerando a few months ago and ended up on a William Gibson binge after which had yet to return me to this section of my book shelf.
This is exactly why I dislike the slow mainstreaming of geek and to a lesser extent gamer culture. The Big Bang Theory, Numb3rs, and the other terrible shows milking geek culture have really proven to be absolute garbage.
Canadian here, I'm frequently embarrassed for my coworkers and family as they can't seem to keep up to date on anything but American Idol.
Honestly, I get more engaging conversation in a taxi.
Homer is generally used to poke fun of this, but I agree that the bumbling male lead has gotten old.
I'll throw in my two cents and state that it's typically demonstrating a situation where the stupid oaf is essentially mothered by a beautiful, intelligent and strong female lead. Feminism, har.
Yeah really here in northern Canada I can either get a broomstick up the ass from Bell, or pay even more for satellite.
I have nothing for contempt for Bell, and can't recall ever hearing a kind word about the company even from its employees.
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Sounds like their hobby beat up your hobby.
They're trying their hardest to run WoW into the ground at the moment as well.
They milked WW2 again a few years ago with World at War. Give them another year or two tops.
But...but... they're The Reds!
Thank you for the reminder to read that book, I read Accelerando a few months ago and ended up on a William Gibson binge after which had yet to return me to this section of my book shelf.
This is exactly why I dislike the slow mainstreaming of geek and to a lesser extent gamer culture. The Big Bang Theory, Numb3rs, and the other terrible shows milking geek culture have really proven to be absolute garbage.
Seriously? You have brought shame upon your clan unsuccessfull troll.
And those nice hardworking athletes are being paid orders of magnitude more than they deserve, like most entertainers.
What is this I don't even
For reference above poster is talking about http://www.thetoasterproject.org/
Haven't noticed the Twitter button?
Wait wait, so a ditch at the top of the hill? You physicists are nuts.
But think of the pretty starlight glinting off the shrapnel in orbit. It'll outlive our memory of the the satellites themselves, How grand!
I believe he was implying these people would be better served by the comparatively hospitable economic and environmental situation on the moon.
Might I suggest Mars?
Very cool piece of trivia, anyone else have any background info to throw in? The route for my morning wiki walk is spreading out quite nicely.
Sort of like signing the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, or the Geneva Convention?
Canadian here, I'm frequently embarrassed for my coworkers and family as they can't seem to keep up to date on anything but American Idol. Honestly, I get more engaging conversation in a taxi.
The suspense is killing me.
Yeah and outside of botnets and Facebook how much do we really feel their presence online?
Homer is generally used to poke fun of this, but I agree that the bumbling male lead has gotten old. I'll throw in my two cents and state that it's typically demonstrating a situation where the stupid oaf is essentially mothered by a beautiful, intelligent and strong female lead. Feminism, har.
If I remembers my learnin' all correct like if it wasn't invented to kill a man, it was invented to impress a woman, right?
The CRTC has all but given them permission to raise infants as food.
Yeah really here in northern Canada I can either get a broomstick up the ass from Bell, or pay even more for satellite. I have nothing for contempt for Bell, and can't recall ever hearing a kind word about the company even from its employees.
Welcome to Israel: Your American tax dollars at work.