Geek and Nerd Humor

saw that on Takei's blog. He's got some funny chit

I don't get it..

Oh, be quiet, you non geek.

A friend of mine had one in 1976. He made a boatload of money selling lasers for land development and he used to carry it with 2 hands.

I see, osso, that you've never played the game of Tetris on your 'puter.

I don't remember just what year I got my first mobile phone; it was in the late 80s or early 90s. It was about the size of three packs of cigarettes and probably weighed close to five pounds.

When the first laptops came out they were called 'portable' we referred to them as 'luggable' much like a JBL 4560 or W Bin is luggable.

it's quite addictive.
i must've played thousands of times in 1994...

Me too. Addictive is the word, all right.

and when i wasn't playing tetris, i was playing this...

I don't think I ever got into that. At least, not that I recall. But Tetris was the rage back then.

While that certainly cheapens the S of L, it doesn't cheapen it as much as what you've allowed your governments to do to the poor countries of the world, to the poor people of the world, Reeg.

A Vintage Scientific Paper Published as a 38-Stanza Poem
by Maria Popova
Verse and vengeance in vintage Australian astrophysics.

Remember last week’s first-ever poem published in a scientific journal? Turns out, it wasn’t the first. Reader Julia Deneva, a Cornell astronomer and fellow Bulgarian, alerts me to The Detection of Shocked Co/ Emission from G333.6-0.2 by New South Wales physicist J. W. V. Storey, a paper published as a 38-stanza poem, appeared in The Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia in 1984. It was as much an act of creativity as it was one of vengeance. Deneva writes:

The unfortunate astronomer who got scheduled last at the annual meeting of said society decided to take revenge and gave his talk in verse — and later submitted it for publication.

The paper-poem is prefaced by the following hand-written note in the margin beside the first stanza:
See the poem http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/07/12/first-science-poem-2

This is up on facebook at the moment



Which immediately brought this classic to mind:

From Firefly in the dog house

Ok, for heavy duty geeks

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