It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! Did you go see the Simpsons Movie yet? We in Germany are lucky enough to see the film one day ahead of the official release in the US and the UK; in fact, some movie theaters were showing the dubbed version on the 25th already! Without telling you guys too much I’ll only say this: No it doesn’t suck at all, no it’s not the best episode ever, and yes I’d watch it another 50 times! Do you know that Ben & Jerry’s made an ice cream flavor called “Duff and D’oh-Nuts” specially for the movie premiere in Springfield, Vermont? It’s a combination of chocolate and cream stout with chunks of glazed chocolate donuts. According to Ben & Jerry’s it’s a “one-time and one-day-only” flavor, but who says we can’t make our own donut ice cream?
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July 27th, 2007
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Previously on LinuxTag Comes to Springfield: Part I and Part II
The following evening at the Simpsons’. The family is watching TV when a newsflash cuts in.
Brockman: This is Kent Brockman, we interrupt Paris in Prison: the Reality Show to bring you this breaking news. LinuxTag received a bomb threat in writing this afternoon. A bomb would be placed at the LinuxTag fair should LinuxTag refuse to revoke Mr. Schaeuble’s patronage. Drastic means or empty threat? Arnie Pie talks to Mr. Schaeuble:
Camera cuts to Arnie in the Sky, together with Schaeuble flying in a helicopter.
Schaeuble: (singing to the tune of Don’t Cha) Doncha wish your Minister was tough like me? Doncha wish your Minister was strict like me? (stops singing) Jawohl, what do I tell you people? Terrorists are here, there, and everywhere! Only by bugging your phones and reading your email can we snuff out these criminals! Please, my dearest American friends, do yourself a favor, do world peace a favor, download and install this Federal Trojan, made in Germany!
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June 29th, 2007
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Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice cream by its diameter?
A: Pi á la mode.
It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! Those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere have just celebrated the official start of summer…ok, many probably didn’t even realize that was an official date, but the rising temperature and the cheerfulness is definitely palpable. I don’t know how you guys mark the beginning of your favorite reason, but I did get myself a triple-scoop ice cream - sesame with honey, chilli with chocolate, plus ginger - on an extra buttery cone. What are your favorite ice cream flavors? Maybe there are regional flavors where you are that you don’t get anywhere else? In Japan, for example, gourmets can enjoy octopus or kelp flavored ice cream, whereas in Taiwan I’ve seen pork flavored and green-tea flavored ice cream. I wonder if you get snail flavored ice cream in France?
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June 22nd, 2007
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Previously on LinuxTag Comes to Springsfield (Part I)
3 days later. The Simpsons are having breakfast when the door bell rings. Homer goes to get the door. It’s the mailman.
Homer: What do you want.
Mailman: What does it look like?
Homer: You selling insurance?
Mailman: I got a registered letter for Lisa Simpson.
Homer: Registered letter. Must be important.
Mailman: Whatever.
Homer: Can I read it before giving it to her?
Mailman: Like I care.
Homer: Do you have a registered letter for me?
Mailman: No.
Homer: Why not.
Mailman: Dunno.
Homer: Why are you so snappish.
Mailman: You’re annoying the hell outta me!
Homer: (shocked and offended) I never want to see you again! (slams the door and cries all the way back to the kitchen)
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June 15th, 2007
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At the Springfield Elementary.
Krabappel: OK class, can someone tell me what Linux is? Yes Ralph.
Ralph: You use it to blow yellow liquid out of your nose and block red liquid from coming out of your nose.
Bart: Don’t you mean “Kleenix”, Ms. “Rabappel”?
Class giggles.
Krabappel: Shut up Bart. Yes, Milhouse?
Milhouse: I saw it on the laptop of my dad’s divorce lawyer once: it’s some sorta penguin that likes to eat kernels of the Debian plant.
Krabappel: Milhouse! Why didn’t you tell me your dad’s getting a divorce! I want your father to call me after 10 o’clock tonight so we can discuss your academic dishonesty problem. As for the rest of the class, watch and learn!
Krabappel dims the room and puts a VHS in the VCR.
McClure: Hi! I’m Troy McClure, you may remember me from educational films such as Amoeba: What You Don’t Know Might Not Kill You and memorable blockbusters such as Snakes on the Rollercoaster. In the next 20 minutes we’ll be learning about this revolutionary operating system called Linux.
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June 1st, 2007
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Have you ever felt like raising your laptop in the air, smashing it on the floor really hard and jumping on it a thousand times? Have you ever had the urge to use a hammer and beat your computer into a million pieces? Let me guess: you’re using Windows from Microsoft, right? I know because I’ve felt that way so often ever since Windows 95 all the way to Windows XP.
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March 23rd, 2007
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