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  1. Why just PERL? on Misterhouse - a Home Driven by Perl Scripts · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all . . .

    The house that PERL built:

    . . . has more entrances than you know what to do with, and most of them lead to the same room anyway. Random geeks walk by and obfuscate your living room for fun.

    The house that RUBY built:

    . . . makes eating dinner confusing, as when you drop your spork (an instance of class spork, which multiply inherits from classes spoon and fork, two subclasses of class utensil, a subclass of . . .) your not really sure whose member method your picking it up with. Using the bathroom is right out.

    The house that LUA built:

    . . . swing at the large rat. You hit! The large rat disappears in a cloud of red mist. You have killed the large rat. The grid bug misses. The grid bug misses. You are jolted by the grid bug. There is a fountain here. Do you drink from it? (y/n) Your god is angry with you. Curse the day that all the nethack and angband developers integrated lua into their games. The grid bug misses . . .

  2. Hrrrm . . on Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military · · Score: 1

    *puts on skeptic cap*

    Anyone a little skeptical about this Stavatti corporation? Is it real? Their homepage contains plenty of CG designs for fighter jets "available for procurement in 2005", but isn't it awful fast to go from designs to a federally approved warplane in 2 years? Why are there no pictures of any people or facilities on the site?

    Counterpoint: there's a lot of documentation available within the site . . . here. But much of it is marked as 'proprietary'. Why's it here?

    I dunno. Maybe I'm just being silly. Just one of those wierd gut feelings.

    Did you know I had a skeptic cap?

  3. Re:We already have one of those. on Self-Assembling Networks · · Score: 1

    And come to think of it, management strongly resembles a swarm of bees . . .

  4. We already have one of those. on Self-Assembling Networks · · Score: 5, Funny

    My network team looks *just* like a swarm of ants when the network goes down.

  5. What would you do to that son-of-a-jackal? on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    I'd . . . uh . . . bust some caps.

    BUST SOME CAPS! Give that man a gold star!

  6. Re:Missile on Homing In On Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    One word.

    Macross.

  7. KLEZ in my Wine?! on WINE: A New Place for KLEZ to Play? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've got a 5-gallon carboy in the closet with 12-day old merlot in secondary fermenation. It took me two bloody hours to santize all of my siphoning gear just to make sure i wouldn't skunk on me . . . and now you're saying I have to worry about KLEZ in my wine??

    Christ, this homebrew thing just isn't worth it.

  8. Here, take this on 10Gbps Wireless Transfers · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, basically, what we're saying is, by the time we get to 1Tb/s, we're all going to have to be close enough that I might as well just hand you a floppy?

    And is that a run-on? Sheesh. Critics.

  9. Re:original on The Nation of Macintosh? · · Score: 0

    Test Drive II: The Duel -- for what its worth. I was playing it at about the same time on my 520ST. What great gaming platforms they were. Ever wonder why the original TD games were more fun than the stuff they're spewing now? *shrug* Progress.

  10. Re:Funny story from Chemistry lecture... on Sodium + Private Lake = Fun · · Score: 0

    Ahhhh, mercury. Sweetest of the transition metals.

  11. Catastrophe Usage? on Microsoft's $40 Billion On Hand · · Score: 1

    When they say Catastrophe, are we sure they don't mean "Catastrophe Theory", as is "why does this continuous process generate discontinuous results?" Just curious. If there ROI looks anything like some of the catastophe graphs I've seen, they're making out like bandits. Or wallowing in debt. But I'm pretty sure that's not the case.

  12. Righteous Indignation on Anime And The Tech Lifestyle · · Score: 1

    To all who would claim superiority on the grounds that their hobbies and geekhood are far more appropriate than anime:

    My happiness is not subject to your expectations. Have we all forgotten that?

    --Maradine (yeah, I went to Otakon. And my wife brought 3 women back to our suite the second night. Better than I did. :-))

  13. Eulogy on Donald Davies: End Transmission · · Score: 1

    Rest in peace, Donald Davies. Your brainchild will live an existance infinite. I know you can see this. Maradine