Archive for December 2005 – Page 3

Domo Arigato: Useless factioid #1

And now for something completely useless:the Larch

In the Styx song Mr. Roboto… When he finally throws his mask away who is he?
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Abbott and Costello on buying a computer

I don’t know if this has made the rounds before, but its the first time I’ve seen it. “Who’s on first?” — applied to PC purchases

You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello and old
enough to not really understand computers to fully appreciate this.
For those who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read
on. It is a reworking of the sketch Bud Abbott and Lou Costello made
famous — “Who’s on First?”

I blatantly stole this from Andrew Pollacks blog
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Young Geeks

When I find out just how young some of the web site developers are out there I shudder in my decrepit old age, and wonder how long I can hang on to my job. If I understand correctly, the creator of this site is still in high school. I’m sure there are even more creative sites out their by even younger artists (yeah artists, because while I can code, I can’t get’em to look perty), but the fact that he’s got flash and an integration to paypal still makes me take notice.

Nice job Peter!

UPDATE: Got an email informing me that he’s in his first year of college. Now I feel so much better…. NOT!