Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category
It’s been said that “the most valuable sense of humor is the kind that enables a person to see instantly what it isn’t safe to laugh at.” We can’t promise you that here, but the stuff here makes us laugh.
Geek Haiku
Posted on July 20, 2007 by snipe in Geek Life, Humor
Haiku is a mode of Japanese poetry, the late 19th century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the older hokku,the opening verse of a linked verse form, haikai no renga. The traditional hokku consisted of a pattern of approximately 5, 7, 5 on. The Japanese word on, meaning “sound”, corresponds to a mora, a phonetic unit [...]
Upside-Down-Ternet
Posted on March 20, 2007 by snipe in Geek Life, Humor
After a neighbor started stealing Pete’s wifi bandwidth, he decided to have a little fun. To give you some idea of the mayhem he caused, he: Sent all website traffic to the kittenwar website Flipped all of the images and text on the websites the neighbor was visiting, so that they were upside down and [...]
For Cake?
Posted on July 31, 2006 by snipe in Humor
I was in the drug store the other day, looking for a variety of personal items (toothbrush, toothpaste, that sort of thing – nothing girlyicky, not that it matters.) They had moved the aisle for the depilatory creams and wax a while back, and despite my hour of aimless wandering, I still couldn’t find it. [...]
Technical Emergency
Posted on June 23, 2006 by snipe in Geek Life, Humor
So a girl I work with just came running into my office, trying desperately to be discreet but clearly panicked. She was asking where to find an image on the hard drive that hasn’t been saved specifically, but that was emailed using Outlook. I offered to help her find it, and she quietly said something [...]
Screwing Off at Work
Posted on June 22, 2006 by snipe in Humor
Ran across this on the b3ta newsletter: When I was a travelling sales rep, I used to be sent all over the country to the most god-forsaken places on earth. To combat this, I devised a somewhat ingenious solution: I stayed at home. My boss would regularly phone me while I was ‘in my car’ to check [...]
