And other great DIY Irish Curses. So far my favorite combination is “May a pitiless bureaucrat lick your investment portfolio.” It alsp translates your curse into Gaelic and provides a handy pronunciation guide. [via Looka]
July 2003
So much for my plan to re-enact the entire film of Lagaan on my upcoming flight to Alaska. Apparently cricket bats are among the many sporting goods I’m not allowed to bring in my carry-on luggage. Guess I’ll have to settle for drinking and sleeping.
Heh. I love all of the Mac Switch ads, but as is often the case in our media-saturated world, the parodies are often even more fun:
- Switch to Linux – Ubergeek.tv
- ben brown (potentially not work-safe, depending on your co-workers’ sense of humor and propriety)
- Will Ferrell
- Anakin Skywalker
I meant to post this a while back: Why Nerds Are Unpopular by Paul Graham. It mostly discusses the difficulties of being a smart kid in middle and high school, but even though the nerds definitely bear the brunt of peer torment during those years, it has a lot to say about why that period is difficult for most, if not all kids in American schools. It certainly rang true to a great deal of my experience.