Well I have a new vehicle. A 2006 Scion xB. I still have my truck and my car this is just another addition to my family of cars. I will post some pictures later on after I was the monster. I went to Vancouver, WA yesterday to visit my sister and got back this morning so it needs a bath.
I found this off of “The Best of Craigslist,” and I find it very funny.
In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude in the corner typing away on his laptop? The following are reasons why I think my fellow females should pay more attention to the quiet geeks and nerds, and less attention to the flashy boys.
1.) While geeks and nerds may be awkward, they’re well-meaning 9 out of 10 times. That smooth dude with the sly grin and the spider hands? Wonder what HIS intentions are… plus, I’ve never had a geek guy not call me when he said he would. Score major points THERE.
2.) They’re useful. In this tech-savvy world, it’s great to have a b/f who can make your laptop, desktop, and just about anything else that plugs into a wall behave itself.
3.) They’re more romantic than they’re given credit for. Ok true, their idea of romance might be to make up a spiffy web-page with all the reasons why they love you, with links to pics of you and sonnets and such… but hey. It lasts longer than flowers, plus you can show your friends.
4.) Due to their neglected status, there are plenty to choose from. You like ‘em tall and slender? There are plenty of geeks/nerds who are. You like ‘em smaller with more meat on their bones? Got that too.
5.) They’ve got brains. Come on now, how can intelligence be a bad thing?
6.) Most are quite good at remembering dates. Like birthdates and such, especially if they know it’ll make you happy. Due again to their neglected status, they’re more attentive than guys who “have more options”. Plus, with all that down time without a steady girlfriend, they’ll likely have mental lists of all the things they’d love to do once they GOT a girlfriend.
7.) Sex. Yep. Sex. I’m not really familiar with this myself, but I’ve friends who’ve been intimate with geek guys and it’s raves all around. They say a virgin wrote the Kama Sutra… all that time thinking about sex, imagining sex, dreaming about sex, (they are male after all) coupled with a desire to make you happy? Use your imagination.
8.) They’re relatively low-maintenance. Most can be fueled on pizza, Twinkies and Mt Dew. No complicated dinners needed here, so if you’re not the best cook, eh. Can you order a pizza?
9.) Most frequent bars as often as slugs frequent salt mines. You won’t have to worry much about your geek guy getting his “groove” on with club hotties because, frankly, he’ll be too busy rooting around under his computer wondering where that spare cable went. You won’t have to worry about him flirting with other women because, 9 out of 10 times, he’ll zip right by them in a perfect b-line towards the nearest electronics store. I’ve seen this happen.
Me: “Eww. Victoria Secret’s Models… They’re so skinny. How is that feminine? You can see her ribs!”
Geek Guy: “ooooooo…”
Me: “Hey!” *notices he is staring lustfully towards the computer store*
Geek Guy: “What?”
Me: “Never mind…”
10.) Although he may not want to go to every outing with you, you can arrange swaps, as in, you’ll go to his Gamer Con dressed as an elf princess if he’ll take you to the ballet. Plus, if he doesn’t want to go someplace with you, you won’t have to worry much about what he’s up to. You’ll probably come home to find him asleep on his keyboard in a sea of Mt. Dew cans with code blinking from the screen. It’s ok. He’s used to this. Just toss a blanket over him and turn out the light.
11.) His friends aren’t jerks. I can’t stress this enough. You’ll more likely get “Omg! A GIRL!! Can I see?!” than “Hey hot stuff back that ass up here and let me get some grub on…” They’re awkward geeks too and will, 9 times out of 10, treat you with the utmost respect and, more than likely, a note of awe. A cute girl picked one of their clan to date? It could happen to them! Hope! Drag some of your single girlfriends over, open up a pack of Mt. Dew, crack open the DnD set and get working. Nothing impresses geek guys more than a girl who can hack-n-slash (well ok maybe if she can code… a geek can dream).
12.) They’re rarely if ever possessive. They trust you, so you can be yourself around them. You like to walk around the house in a ratty t-shirt for comfort? He won’t care. He does too! They won’t get pissy if you don’t wear make-up or don’t want to bother primping your hair. If you gain a few pounds, they won’t try their best to make you feel like crap.
13.) They’re usually very well educated. Physics majors and the like. See #5. You won’t have to listen to him blathering on about his car (ok maybe a little), he’ll have loads of other interesting things to talk about. Politics, world events, how much the chicken burgers down at the local place rock, so long as you douse them in hot sauce…
14.) You’ll almost never have to hear, “Yaw dawg whazzap!!” plop out of their mouths. Unless it’s in jest. They spell properly, use correct punctuation, and are able to tell the difference between the toilet and the floor. They almost never get “wasted”, so you won’t have to worry about coming home to find him and his friends passed out on the floor amidst a pile of beer bottles. Mt. Dew cans, perhaps…
15.) And the final reason why geeks and nerds make great boyfriends: They actually give a damn about you. Not how you look (though that’s a plus), not how skinny you are, not how much make-up you primp yourself up with, but they like you for you. That kind of thing lasts longer than “DaMN baby you got a fine ass!!!” Believe me.
William says: what browser do you use?
Hidden says: internet explorer
William says: why not firefox or opera?
Hidden says: because they don’t have the functions of ie
Hidden says: they will never beat ie
William says: explain please
Hidden says: can you get 10 spywares when browsing only 1 page with firefox or opera?
Hidden says: no.
William says: so you feel its positive to get spyware with IE?
Hidden says: totally, if i wouldn’t have spywares and viruses, my computer would work fine
William says: so use firefox or opera and your computer will run better
Hidden says: no!
William says: you like having spyware?
Hidden says: if i don’t have spyware, my computer works fine
William says: but you get spyware through ie, so why use it?
Hidden says: because i don’t want my computer to work fine
William says: why not?
Hidden says: because it runs windows
William says: it will run fine if you use opera or firefox, i do it, thousands of users that enjoy my firefox guide use it so why not you?
Hidden says: because i don’t want it to run fine on windows
Hidden says: it’s a treat to windows
William says: i dont understand
Hidden says: windows is not meant to work fine
William says: lol
What does all that amount to? I can’t tell you, I am still confused.
This is somewhat old news. I am not trying to make excuses for posting old news but I still haven’t recovered from my Opera Crash fiasco. I am working on it though. I have lots of great things to post over the next few days as I get caught up on what is going on in our lovely planet internet.
There is finally an awesome SEO extension for Firefox! Go download it here.
This tool was designed to add more data to Google and Yahoo! to make it easier to evaluate the value and competitive nature of a market. SEO for Firefox pulls in many useful marketing data points to make it easy get a more holistic view of the competitive landscape of a market right from the search results. In addition to pulling in useful marketing data this tool also provides links to the data sources so you can dig deeper into the data.
A few days ago I started using this extension and it’s very useful. I will be updating the Firefox Guide over the next few days with this extension and some other awesome ones I’ve found sense the last update.
Well Saturday when Caleb and I went north to put the wheels on the Silvia we merged onto the highway in the middle of what appeared to be a Euro Meet. A few Porsche 911 Turbo’s, several Audi’s, and a few VW’s trying to keep up with the pack. Enjoy the photos.
Kyle MacDonald has finally gotten a house. On his blog he said he was going to trade one red paperclip to people and eventually end up with a house. Well today he has finally done it in trading one movie roll for a house in Canada. Simply amazing what the internet can do.
On February 26, 2004, we had a snowstorm here in Raleigh, and all the news channels posted the businesses and schools that would be closed the next day. One of these fine news organizations, Time Warner Cable’s News 14 Carolina, chose the most convenient but least secure method to allow businesses to report closings: the Internet. Well, it wasn’t long before members of The Wolf Web, an NCSU message board, exposed this flaw. They went crazy, as you’re about to see. The best part of the whole thing was once a closing was accepted, it could be edited on the Internet and would go straight to TV without having to be reviewed again, so a fake closing that seemed plausible the first time it was shown could be outrageous the next time.
Go here for more pictures.
Here is the original forum thread.
G33ks of the world unite.
Local lunatic David Thompson complains to Charlotte, NC city council during a community access forum, which is conveniently captured on tape and broadcast live on the local community access channel. There aren’t enough tags to cover his rant against ice in the arena, rogue helicopter pilots, and “terrorist pussies”.
Watch the video here. This guy has issues.
This is too funny.
I have to say that I totally agree with that guys rant. I don’t see why the copy/paste function in the Microsoft Office suite has to keep the size/font settings from the text I copied to where I pasted it. Cool feature, but shouldn’t be the default.
Opera the browser that doesn’t have the memory leaks of Firefox. Well I’ve managed to crash it. I was curious just how much stress this browser can take so a few days ago I went through about 30 pages on Digg.com and opened up the links that interested me. I was quite behind in my digging if you will, and this time instead of using Firefox I used Opera. I am trying to give Opera a fair chance in my browsing experience to help learn more about it. Well this browser has failed me. I had probably 100 tabs open in 3 separate windows and went to bed. The next morning I awoke to find Opera memory usage well over 1.2gigs! I was at that point using my page file and my computer was running like ass. I just went into the task manager in windows and killed the Opera process. I can do this in Firefox and re-launch, my session is saved due to Session Saver and I am able to go about my business. Not with Opera I opened it back up and …NOTHING! I was so pissed two days of work down the shitter. I had research on future blog articles among other very important windows open and it was all gone. So I am currently back tracking through over fifty pages on Digg to try to recover the lost work. I hate Opera at this point in history. Probably in a few decades I won’t hate it so much. Someone please give me a reason to try it again? For the record I also must say I put Firefox through this endless abuse of tons of windows open day in day out, sure it has memory leaks but I’ve never had an issue like this before. End Rant.
I spotted one of these beautiful cars in downtown Olympia yesterday and couldn’t help but taking pictures of it. It is very rare to see an E-type in this good of shape just parked in a parking lot. Enjoy the pictures.
Well my wheels for the Silvia finally showed up. I got tires mounted on the fronts and got them on the car this weekend. Thanks to Ray from Enjuku Racing for hooking me up with such awesome wheels. Tires for the rear are on order and I should have them sometime this week and get them on the car next weekend. Hopefully I’ll have the car home next weekend too so I can do the finishing touches before I send it out for paint, body work, and fresh new areo kit from BN Sport USA.
Here are some pictures for you to drool at.
Well damnit I missed this. Ken Jennings the Jeopardy guy that won 74 games in a row, finally looking on his 75th game. He is selling a giant foam head that is the size of a riding lawn mower. I wished I would have seen this sooner. Check the auction here.
These 3 day weeks are a killer. Wednesday feeling like Monday….etc. Seems like I’ll never catch up before Friday. Anyway I’m alive…and try to post some of write ups I’ve been working on. Opera and Firefox comparison has really been eating up my time, but in a very good way.
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UNIX Error Jokes
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phpDocumentor
Awesome way to make docs.
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Panic Goods
Awesome shirts.
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Worst Domain Names
Yep a Top 10 List.
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Relax!
Your workspace. Anyone want to go buy me some plants?
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How the iPod works
The clickwheel that is.
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TWIT Redesign
It's about time.
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Sinking Ice
Use heavy water to create ice that sinks. Nothing like nuclear science to the rescue.
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WiFi War
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Solve the Cube
The computerized version.
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