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Friday 6 July 2007
Nerd Word Fun & Games
Michael sent me an email that immediately cheered me up over being stuck in the UK an extra day due to a broken plane. In it, he writes:
“MySpace is to HTML as Barry Gibb is to Beck”
Now I don’t know if I’m just desperate for a laugh at the moment or if my incessant giggling proves this to be truly funny. Since I expect not to have the time or motivation to write anything serious for a few days as I journey from this rainy island to the searing desert, I thought we might have some fun along this theme.
Write a short, pithy, nerdy saying, and don’t hold back! The only “rule” as it were is that the topic has to relate to nerdy concepts and words.
Top three faves will win a book, which I anticipate being able to give more away of now that I’m returning home for a while.
Your turn!
Filed under: humor, pop culture, giveaways and fun, creativity
Posted by: Molly | 6:30 pm |
July 6th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Ruby on Rails is the man purse of Web programming.
July 7th, 2007 at 4:08 am
I think it was William Shakespeare who wrote
“A plague o’ both your browsers!”
and
“The devil can cite Scripting for his purpose.”
Obviously a 16th century code poet who battled with browser inconsistencies!
PS Sorry for all the rain!
July 7th, 2007 at 4:19 am
Welcome to my HTML sorry, we’re closed. (Not written by me)
July 7th, 2007 at 9:11 am
“b“
July 7th, 2007 at 9:27 am
doh… meant for that to display the code for b bold…. b …. oh well
July 7th, 2007 at 9:53 am
“Facebook is to MySpace as Courtney Cox is to Courtney Love.”
July 7th, 2007 at 11:46 am
My girlfriend is rather attracted to my nerdyness and although it’s not particularly web related as other’s contributions have been I once said this to her at an opportune moment (if you know what I mean) and to my surprise her reaction was more than welcome ( wink wink). Anyway here it is:
“Pi is the square root of Pi squared’
July 7th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
I believe it was an aggie who once said: “Cornbread are squared…Pi are round!”
July 7th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I was recently lambasting someone for using google pages in the Opera forums, when I came up with this little gem:
Good lord, Google Pages makes GeoCities look robust and well coded… Which is a bit like saying a 1976 Fiat 128 is a quality automobile compared to a 1986 Yugo GV.
July 7th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
What’s the difference between a drive-by Web designer and a con artist?
July 7th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Got Layout?
July 7th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
As “war is the pursuit of politics by other means”, so to are browser inconsistencies the pursuit of semantic web design by other means.
July 8th, 2007 at 12:53 am
Jeff, that would be the use of CSS hacks, not browser inconsistencies.
July 8th, 2007 at 4:05 am
On my crankier days:
There’s a reason it’s called “Flash” and not “Substance”.
After a major network outage I almost made someone cry laughing by yelling “a plague! a plague on BOTH your routers!”
July 8th, 2007 at 8:26 am
All of these “geek” comparisons are confusing. Hoping if I can just get this damn pocket protector stapled to my chest that it will help in comprehension. Oh well.
July 8th, 2007 at 10:16 am
I rather liked Danny O’Brien’s “RDF was the LSD of the 90’s”
July 8th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
William Shatner, William Shatner, William Shatner - What about meeeeee?
(only the original joke is obviously in drunken Ferengi to the Grand Nagus - you had to be there - and refers to the fact the Ferengi never came to us until The Next Generation)…
too geeky? OK it never happened
The line was hijacked from the original Brady Bunch series - “Marcia Marcia Marcia what about meeee”! but i didnt’ want to admit it.
July 8th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
all your base are mine molly holzschlag
July 8th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
hey i just fell off the end of the array and turned into a NULL pointer - honest!
or
occams razor? By god woman that’s not for your legs!!!!
July 8th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
“I had tabs before you even knew they were.”
Actually it’s not tabs, it’s MDI since I began using them as of opera 5, but whatever.
July 8th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
molly as a deterministic finite automaton (finite state machine), now that’s geeky…
applying the Knuth, Morris, Pratt (KMP) Algorithm to it… way out there…
spending the afternoon actually doing that is priceless
it should be on a tshirt!!!
July 8th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
On the subject of Iraq
rm -rf *
- great for a geeky anti war tshirt slogan!
July 9th, 2007 at 8:02 am
I went to get a bank mini-statement. I actually asked for a view source on my account. Oops.
July 9th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Not mine of course (I believe it was jwz) but this has always been one of my favourites.
July 9th, 2007 at 9:57 am
OK Mols -
Now this one is kind of old. It was seen on a t-shirt back in the early 90’s - but has always always always cracked me up (it might be out of context for your question - but I haven’t had a chance to repeat it in a really really long time).
If God had wanted man to have sex online - s/he would have given man three hands.
ha ha ha ha (sorry - but it always cracks me up)
July 9th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
<html>
<head>
<style>
#MeMyself-n-I
{
Position: relative; visibility: inherit;
}
.UppaCrust
{
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
</style>
</head>
<body class=”UppaCrust”>
<h1 id=”MeMyself-n-I”>Paris Hilton
</body>
</html>
July 9th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Crap! I forgot to close the H1 tag!
Here it is. Cut and paste it in to the code:
</h1>
;^P
July 9th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Geeky and nerdy huh? Wellll..I’ll give it a try:
“I’ll grep your awk and raise you two PERLS!” *s*
July 9th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
My hard drive is way bigger than yours.
And my spin to an old favourite:
Please, PLEASE tell me how to set this laser printer to stun!
July 12th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
SELECT winner FROM nerd_word_fun_and_games WHERE first_place=’me’ LIMIT 1;
July 13th, 2007 at 4:38 am
Real geeks won’t eat chips
July 14th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
I flock. Do you flock?
LOL, I just love the name of that browser!
July 17th, 2007 at 2:17 am
Nice boot, wanna fsck?
July 17th, 2007 at 8:03 am
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned by IE6 bugs.
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March 30th, 2008 at 6:18 am
thanks
April 30th, 2008 at 10:46 am
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June 25th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Western clothes.
Dog clothes. Teen clothes. Caught wearing girls clothes. Clothes. Maternity clothes. Toddler clothes.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Culinary art catering.
Culinary art school reviews. Culinary art schools. Culinary art scholorships.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
This very good…
October 17th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Wow.. i like.. thanks.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
thanks…
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:59 am
thnx.