Techie Manager

I was cleaning out some old boxes today and found two geek comics that I had saved from the 1980s. They’re a bit yellowed and torn (and full of holes from hanging on multiple cork boards over the years), but still funny after all these years.

The Banana Junior 6000 ad from Bloom County, featuring a computer-less Gene Simmons from Kiss:

Nerd Care^TM Bleaching Lotion from Doonesbury:

http://www.thingspalincanname.com/

Examples:

Causes of Global Warming

• God
• Polar Bears
• Fire

Nicknames I’ve Had

• Sarah Barracuda
• Sarah Failin’
• VPILF
• Bush in a Dress
• Caribou Barbie
• Footnote of History
• Pitbull with Lipstick
• Moose Momma
• Moosilini
• Tina Fey’s Sister
• Barack’s Bane
• Pig

An Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the wackiest family comedy of the year! Sound familiar?

This is the action figure that I’ve been waiting for!

Next I need a Robert Fripp action figure with adjustable stool…

An 11-year old girl plays Rush’s “YYZ” on a Yamaha Electone organ. Amazing.

Here’s a link to the original if you need to compare.

From /.:

A year ago we took note when Brian May, guitarist for Queen for the last 30 years, submitted his thesis for a Ph.D. in astrophysics. The news now is that the thesis has been published. You, too, can read all about the population of tiny asteroids and space dust that cause the Zodiacal light. The completed thesis appears as the book “A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud” (Springer and Canopus Publishing Ltd., 2008), available at Amazon for $71.96. May was awarded his Ph.D. last summer and accepted a position as chancellor at a British university in November.

Interesting insight into the results of Microsoft’s “Mojave Experiment” on Wil Shipley’s blog…

Microsoft took a bunch of “regular folks” XP users who were afraid of Vista, and told them Microsoft was going to show them a secret new operating system — which was actually Vista.

UNSURPRISINGLY, these people mostly said they liked Vista.

I hate bad science. Hate it. Hate. So let’s look at not one, not two, but FOUR, yes FOUR (ah-ah-ah!) key flaws in this experiment, any single one of which would render its results meaningless:

* The Placebo Effect
* The Pepsi Challenge Effect
* The Perfectly Controlled Environment Effect
* The Personal Tutor Effect

Microsoft has managed to prove that if you have a friendly expert on a controlled machine (with Vista pre-installed) showing a carefully selected subset of Vista features to an ignorant XP user for a few minutes, the XP user will often say he finds Vista acceptable. Wow.

This so-called experiment of Microsoft’s is an insult to science, and to our intelligence. And I am dying to see the out-takes from their shoot. I mean, how many people do you suppose like being told, “Hey, this giant, unpopular monopolistic software company just made an ass out of you! Ha ha! Our leading scienticians just PROVED that you LOVE VISTA and WANT TO MARRY IT. You are TOTALLY GAY for Vista! Haaaaaaa HAAAAAAA!”

Read the whole article.

Tongue in cheek Apple “Time Capsule” recorded in 1987, looking into the future of 1997.

Mac Vista…hehehehe, love it…