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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: creativity, giveaways and fun, humor, pop culture
Posted by: Molly | 18:30 | Comments (44)
Ruby on Rails is the man purse of Web programming.
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!
Welcome to my HTML sorry, we’re closed. (Not written by me)
“b“
doh… meant for that to display the code for b bold…. b …. oh well
“Facebook is to MySpace as Courtney Cox is to Courtney Love.”
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’
I believe it was an aggie who once said: “Cornbread are squared…Pi are round!”
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.
What’s the difference between a drive-by Web designer and a con artist?
Got Layout?
As “war is the pursuit of politics by other means”, so to are browser inconsistencies the pursuit of semantic web design by other means.
Jeff, that would be the use of CSS hacks, not browser inconsistencies.
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!”
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.
I rather liked Danny O’Brien’s “RDF was the LSD of the 90’s”
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.
all your base are mine molly holzschlag
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!!!!
“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.
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!!!
On the subject of Iraq
rm -rf *
- great for a geeky anti war tshirt slogan!
I went to get a bank mini-statement. I actually asked for a view source on my account. Oops.
Not mine of course (I believe it was jwz) but this has always been one of my favourites.
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)
<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>
Crap! I forgot to close the H1 tag!
Here it is. Cut and paste it in to the code:
</h1>
;^P
Geeky and nerdy huh? Wellll..I’ll give it a try:
“I’ll grep your awk and raise you two PERLS!” *s*
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!
SELECT winner FROM nerd_word_fun_and_games WHERE first_place=’me’ LIMIT 1;
Real geeks won’t eat chips
I flock. Do you flock?
LOL, I just love the name of that browser!
Nice boot, wanna fsck?
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned by IE6 bugs.
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