Because “lolcats” is a misnomer. I mentioned before my lack of affinity for this particular corner of predictable web culture – the cat, the poorly spelt caption – I’m not seeing the gag.
My good buddy Hr. Flemming and I have since put this down to the reduced novelty seeking associated with infection with the brain parasite toxoplasmosis, common among people owned by cats who demand they have a clean box to drop chud in.
If anybody has a competing theory I’m all ears.
I know! Those shoes with the lights in the heel…
“My shoes have lights in the heel!”
“Oh really? Well, my IQ* has high numbers in it!”
*89
Let’s see… What’s been pissing me off?
They banned Manhunt 2! Fucking mollycoddling bastards trying to… nah, I’ve done this. Besides, I’m just going to import it from The Netherlands. Hmmm…
Cocaine bust bullshit! How much coke? Nobody knows! They just kept pulling numbers out of their arses… then that fucking mouthpiece RTE wheels out that tired bullshit about traces of cocaine on 99 billion percent of banknotes… it’s a fine powder! The notes are stored in close prox… Hmm? Too late? Oh.
Those pictures of cats with captions underneath simply not funny! Oh, who cares…
Erm… XML shouldn’t be used for config files! They’re supposed to be human editable – I don’t want to have to parse a config! Erm… bit esoteric. Hrm…
Let’s see… teaching kids to scream for products? Ah sure, they scream anyway.
TV Dinners? ATM etiquette? Umbrellas again? Bah.
*edit* I know! Those free morning papers – they shove the most egregious of their propaganda into your head while it’s still soft and mushy from last night’s dreamyland… and so on in that fashion until paranoid conclusion reached…
Well, it was a fierce oul’ debate and no mistake. For those who missed it I took the liberty of uploading a video of it for you:
*update* 18/09/2007 – killed by Fox. It wasn’t funny anyway.
![[Tintintintintin]](http://homepage.eircom.net/~wastedyouth/tintintintin.png)
I think it might be time to uninstall the GIMP.
A couple of years ago I was rendered in portrait (by myself…) thusly
What’s changed since then? I don’t smoke so much, I shave even less and use a different background colour in my text editor. Turbulent times indeed.
A Slashdot article indicates that upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy Eft is a nightmarish process fraught with danger at all sides.
I’d just like to take this opportunity to let you all know that the Slackware 11 upgrade I performed on my desktop during the week went so smoothly that I ended up wasting an hour looking for broken stuff (I did find something – I had to remove 5 characters from my Samba config).
Slackware – the distro for people who’ve been fucked by apt
</troll> ;)
The latest photos of Cydonia, Mars from the European Space Agency seem to put those “Face on Mars” conspiracies to rest…
…or do they?
While browsing the pics I noticed this:
That’s right, the skull symbol of classic punk outfit, Subhumans. The implications of this are chilling but at least it puts an end to those old “Where did punk begin?” debates… It clearly began on Mars.
The Hollywood machine has run out of ideas. Sure, most of the movies are bassy explosion-fests anyway but the threadbare plots which loosely tied together the series of booms, crashes and flashing lights were occasionally quite inventive. Some time in the past few years this well of talent dried up and producers started looking to the recent past for “new” films. The Wicker Man is a fantastic horror tale where Edward Woodward plays a puritannical police officer uncovering an insidious plot surrounding the disappearance of a young girl. I don’t care to see the Nicholas Cage version. For those who’ve seen the original check out the trailer and see if there’s something they DON’T give away… “Who’s the Wicker Man?!” “…believe nothing that you see or hear!” Christ, the kid on the poster even has evil eyes.
I digress… I recently caught a trailer for Children of Men which is based on a 1992 novel by PD James. I thought it was an interesting and original plot… Sure, its purpose is to string together a series of explosions and flashing lights but at least it’s not a remake! Or is it..? My brother reminded me of the 1983 Italian B Sci-Fi movie 2019 – Dopo la caduta di New York (2019: After the Fall of New York) he saw some years back. Here’s the plotline they used to tie together their particular series of explosions and flashing lights. Oh well, back to the scripting board.
Culled from the local paper:
![[Back to School Special!]](http://homepage.eircom.net/~wastedyouth/barber.jpg)
I’m getting the Back to School beard trim.
![[Separated at birth?]](http://homepage.eircom.net/~wastedyouth/feargal.jpg)
![[Sweet Surprise]](http://homepage.eircom.net/~wastedyouth/telly.jpg)
Yes, I do have too much time on my hands…
of the LUGRadio team for posting my pic on his site :-)
Some of you will be familiar with the style of O’Reilly computer books – line drawn animal, title below inside a coloured box. I’m not sure how the animal is chosen for a particular book but having a look at some Windows related titles recently leads me to believe that occasionally it’s just whatever’s funniest. Take VB Script In a Nutshell… Doesn’t this dog just look confused? Something a little more challenging put a David Hasselhoff sort of look on his face so he decided on VB Script?
Or what about Windows XP Annoyances? I’m not entirely sure what the animal is but what this cover says to me is “Windows XP is annoying… and fugly!”
VB.net is as much fun as pubic lice:
This one’s fairly self explanatory, I think:
C#… It’s like the blind leading the blind:
And finally, a lame duck and a wet fish:
Click on any of the images above for a closer look.
