I’d like to try this sometime, but I doubt the folks at my local grocery store are going to let me:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele. Click the photo to see it at full size.
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Month: January 2007
In addition to the job openings mentioned in this earlier entry, we’ve got a couple of new job openings here at Tucows:
Oracle DBA— the position’s been filled!- Data Center Technician
The full details are in this article in the Tucows Blog.
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Your Alpha Nerd Moment of Zen
(Atlanta, GA) While they surely don’t need the help, the world’s two richest men can now eat for free at Hooters restaurants. On Friday October 20, 2006 Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were presented with Hooters VIP Cards at a Hooters Restaurant in Kansas City, Kansas. The Cards entitle the gentlemen, who currently rank numbers 1 and 2 on the list of worlds richest, to free food at any of the chains 435 locations in 46 states and 20 countries exclusive of tip and alcohol.
The pair made a stop at the Hooters Restaurant along with members of the Board of Directors for Berkshire Hathaway. The visit came at the request of Buffet so the group could pose for a Christmas Card photo with the chain’s beautiful Hooters girls. “It was an honor to have these powerful individuals dine in my store” said Jason Fetters General manager of the Hooters located at 1712 Village West Parkway, Kansas City, Kansas. “Clearly these guys can go anywhere they want to. The fact that they picked Hooters hopefully says something about the strength of our brand.”
I guess we can assume that from now on, all of Bill Gates’ and Warren Buffet’s reviews of Hooters on their blogs will have the taint (hah!) of bias.
One of the top items on Reddit today is a link to a “Best of Craigslist” posting titled Underwear Goes Inside the Pants, a funny rant about some of the problems in modern American society (it’s applicable to us here in Canada too).
This part always cracks me up:
I walked behind this guy the other day. A homeless guy asked him for money.
He looks right at the homeless guy and says “Why don’t you go get a job, you bum?”
People always say that to homeless guys like it is so easy.
This homeless guy was wearing his underwear outside his pants. Outside his pants.
I’m guessing his resume isn’t all up to date. I’m predicting some problems during the interview process.
The person who posted Underwear Goes Inside the Pants to Craigslist didn’t write it. It’s a stand-up comic routine by Greg Giraldo; it was then set to music by “Lazy B” (formerly “Lazyboy”, but a certain manufacturer of reclining chairs took issue with the name), a project started by a former member of Aqua (yes, the Aqua behind that annoying bubble-gum number, Barbie Girl). If you’ve never heard the rant or tune before, here’s the music video. Enjoy!
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"Garfield" Meets "Jacob’s Ladder"
Continuing with today’s theme of comics, here’s an interesting collision of ideas: Garfield and the movie Jacob’s Ladder:
By the bye, I found the trailer for Jacob’s Ladder on YouTube:
Regular Expressions to the Rescue!
“Whenever I learn a new skill,” writes Randall Munroe, author and artist behind the incredibly nerdy webcomic xkcd, “I concoct elaborate scenarios where it lets me save the day.” In his latest comic, he illustrates this:
Click the comic to see it on its original page.
(Nerd alert: in order to get the joke in the comic, you need to know what regular expressions are. They’re strings of characters — called “strings” for short — that describe or match a given set of strings, according to rules. Think of them as being similar to the “search and replace” function in your favourite word processor, but on steroids.)
HTTP and Computational Complexity to the Rescue!
Back in 2003, I started dating a woman whom I thought was a webmaster and a computer science graduate. A reader of this blog recognized this woman by her description and email me a warning, saying that she wasn’t who she said she was — she was in fact a con artist and identity thief. She used enough jargon to seem convincing as a webmaster and programmer (not to just me, but a number of nerds), but I managed to catch her when she was unable to explain the difference between HTTP GET and HTTP POST and when I tricked her into lying that she proved that P = NP. The whole story is here in an old entry of mine, titled The Girl Who Cried Webmaster.
Radio Shack TRS-80 Nerds to the Rescue!
When writing about computer skills saving the day, I remembered that Radio Shack made a couple of superhero comics in which Superman got an assist from some young nerds equipped with the Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, a staple of young nerds back in the early 1980s:
A little Googling landed me at X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut’s CosmoBlog, where he not only features the covers of these cheesy classics, he’s also giving away the comics!
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Argue Like a Creationist
[via Reddit] Here’s a gem from the now-defunct webcomic Thank God for Atheism!, which very nicely summarizes creationist debating technique:
Click the comic to see it on its original page.