Tragically Unhip

Arguably one of John Mellencamp’s finest moments:

If I was to buy you a diamond ring
Make you my princess, would it mean anything?
Would you take me for granted, and just curse my name…

It’s a little out of place in the song it’s in (Now More Than Ever, found here) which is kind of one of those “let’s make the world a better place” kind of deals, but a great song and a great lyric.

Ok fellow nerdlingers. i have a question. I am finally buying a console (yes I am the one guy left in the world who doesn’t own any… perhaps you’ve heard of me). I don’t know if i should buy an Xbox 360, or PS3. I need help deciding. So, if you all could pro and con me, that be great. Obviously the PS is more expensive, but what else?
Lastly, I am a big Star Wars fan, so their games have to be taken into consideration…!

Genius!

I love this cartoon.

I don’t even know where to START on this one. I really don’t. NOTHING irks me more than some idiot driving at 60kph in a 100 zone! WHY? Why do they have to do that? Why do they have to drive 30 – 40 kph below the limit, no matter how low the limit is to begin with? Why can’t they just drive the limit like any normal person? It really get’s on my t*ts (or it would if I had any) that they look in their rear view mirror, see twenty cars bumper to bumper behind them, and don’t seem to care! And pull over to let us passed? Are you kidding? And don’t tell me they don’t realise that they are the cause of this pile-up-waiting-to-happen!?! They know! They just don’t give a shit!
Then you finally get a chance to pass them and they flash their lights at you like YOU’RE the one causing the problem! Give me a break! And I drive a lot of country back roads to and from work, so you know what’s even worse than that? F*%KING TRACTORS!!! Let me tell you something, farmers – you’re in the way and I don’t give a shit what fields need plowing or sheep dipping or any of the rest of it. How DARE they take that kind of vehicle out onto the road – at RUSH HOUR – and drive at 20 kph for mile after mile!?!? I’ll tell you how they dare – there’s no law stopping the!! How ridiculous is that? You can drive as slowly as you please on any road in this country! Someone explain that to me. Someone tell me how that makes sense! Someone tell me why I’m the one “causing an accident” if, after twenty minutes of this and being late for work, I over take this prick and go ahead at the PROPER SPEED LIMIT!
I’m the impatient asshole disturbing the poor farmer whose only trying to do his job. Well f*^k him! Have you ever seen a farmer driving a crappy old car? No, and you won’t either cause the bastards are loaded. I saw one one evening using his BMW to round up his sheep! Seriously!
So if you think I am hanging back and giving this old dick room and MY time, you’re wrong. Yeah, MY time! I’m not going to live forever so excuse the f&^k out of my ass if I don’t want to double my journey home because of this bastard in his tracker! At five o’clock when I’ve done a days work I am going to sit behind this clown? Or some dozy idiot who still holds the wheel at ten-to-two and thinks the world’s a better place if he knocks 20 off his speed just in case! Not me, sister. I’m beeping the horn and over taking. Believe that!

Here is a list of user-requested features for the next version of Windows, version 7, codenamed Vienna for now. It be cool to see tabbed explorer browsing!

Ok so this week I was watching all the Harry Potter movies with my daughter and I have a question. Why does Voldemort take summers off?

The true enemy

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From here.

Yanno… for years we’ve had to listen to Mac users go on and on and ON in the superior tone about how great Macs are and about how they just never break. Well, let me tell you, I have spent enough years in IT to know they do. A LOT.
My last job was at a company whose graphics department was, as you might expect, Mac-based. And I spent just as much time down there working on them as I did ANY PC.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. What about the whole Mav VS PC thing? What about those annoying “I’m a Mac” ads? I tell you, I want to get that obnoxious Mac guy and bash his face in with a $*^&ing hammer! Why do Mac feel the need to slag off PCs just to advertise their own product? Have they got nothing to say about their own hardware and software that speaks for itself? Does everything have to be based on this ridiculous childish anti-PC thing? Yanno what Mac? NOBODY GIVES A SHIT! Get over yourselves. Advertise your product based on its own (limited) merits. Christ, even entering the network properties of a Mac OS to see the PCs you’re connected to in your network, the icon for the PCs is a crappy looking old beige monitor with a BSOD error on it! I mean, GROW UP! Nobody wants to know. And speaking of BSOD, I have one word Mac: LEOPARD! Code name Train Wreck!
Oh and that reminds me; Mac works with everything right out of the box, huh? Use one version of OS and you can use them all? Vista is the only OS that required users to upgrade their software to keep working? Well, go have a look at the mess that is Adobe CS3 and Mac compatibility! Yanno, Adobe? The one company you’re absolutely totally SUPPOSED to run on a Mac if it’s to be any good?!?!?
Which brings me to the whole Vistas thing. Why do Mac user constantly feel the need to slam Vista? I’ll tell you why, shall I? It’s because it’s good and they know it! It’s got some cool features Leopard has just ripped right off. (Check out that hideous transparent lump that goes across the top of the screen. Is it a task bar? Whatever the hell it’s called. Change your background image and see what mess it makes of that white/see-through bar. And that’s just one silly cosmetic example.) And at least Vista’s a new product. Mac users: you’re getting ripped off!! Yet another version of OSX? Please! And each time they bring out the same thing with a new toy or two added to it you get charged the price to a full new OS!?! You’re taking that one up the ass, boys and girls! Windows released something akin to that a few years ago; it was a free service pack for XP!
And without question the very worst part: This constant need for Mac users to convert PC users to Mac! What’s up with that? If I wanted a Mac, I’d GET one! It isn’t a competition. Five minutes after the final piece of bubble wrap is in the bin they are all like “oh, I’d never use anything else ever again. You should get one, they’d be great for you!”
Oh, f*&$ off!

when you essentially have nothing to say?