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"Things my girlfriend and I have argued about"
Evidently this is a website that was famous several years ago, but I’d never seen it. It’s pretty funny:
Harrison Ford keeps making the same movie
My brother sent me this link – it’s pretty funny. The segment where they show him talking about how they’re after his wife and/or family in every movie is hysterical.
Creeping featurism
Under the definition of “Creeping featurism” (aka feature creep) at Wikipedia is this screenshot of Microsoft Word with all of the possible toolbars activated. It’s pretty funny:
Hyperbole is a pet peeve of mine
Some uses of hyperbole bother me for no particularly good reason. For example, the description of the Opera web browser here states that Opera “runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and countless other platforms.” It then links “countless other platforms” to this page, which lists the 11 platforms that Opera supports.
See, counting them wasn’t that hard. I wonder at what point in that list they gave up and said “there are just too many here to count.” Although, they went a step beyond that, because rather than saying “several” or “more”, they went ahead and said “countless.” As if “it is simply impossible to enumerate the mind-boggling number of platforms that this product supports. You couldn’t even count them if you wanted to.”
It reminds me of the time when Schulte and I were in Vegas and he joked that he’d misplaced a bunch of chips in the room, and there’s “no telling” how much they’re worth. We then determined that there probably is a way – if we looked at each chip, noted the value written on it’s surface, and summed them.
White and Nerdy
This is hysterical. Thanks to Fil for pointing it out.
Ben Affleck – drunk and inappropriate
Interesting choice of icons in IntelliJ
In IntelliJ, they have a built in code inspector with will run through your code and find potential problems. The icon for this tool is a head that looks like a detective (“an inspector” I presume):
If you want the code inspector to ignore certain source files, or specific types of errors, they have a different icon for that:
I don’t know that the metaphor is especially helpful, but I think it’s at least moderately funny.
Star Trek Inspirational Posters
Real nerds would be all over these.
Found it…
This was the comic I saw in Maxim last month which caused me to find the Perry Bible Fellowship. I finally came across the online version.