I don’t find SNL that funny very often, but this is pretty fun.
Archive for the 'Humor' Category
Steve Yegge recently published his own “Tech News” post, the first and (according to him) possibly last. If he could keep this up once a week he could probably quit his job at Google and start a tech version of The Onion.
My favorite of the set:
Man Dies Waiting for Eclipse to Launch
A software engineer in San Jose, CA was found dead at his desk yesterday, apparently having died while waiting for his Java editing program, Eclipse, to finish its boot process. Coworkers say the engineer came in that morning vowing to “get Eclipse working on his box or die trying.” The last thing anyone heard him say aloud was the cryptic comment: “I see the splash screen is appropriately blue.” Nobody knows what he meant. The man was then thought to have fallen asleep, but hours later it was discovered that the engineer had died suddenly of apparent natural causes. The forensics team’s investigation that evening was reportedly interrupted unexpectedly when the dead man’s Eclipse program suddenly finished launching. The team tried to interact with it to see if they could find clues about the man’s death, but the program was unresponsive and the machine ultimately had to be rebooted. At this time, the police commissioner says there is no evidence of foul play, and they currently believe the man simply died of either boredom or frustration.
I know I’d go see it.
Billed as the The ultimate iPod* (and iPhone*)
Anti-Theft Device, the folks at Hide-a-pod have come up with an ingenious solution to preventing your iPod from being stolen: “Hide it in a Zune*!”
From their “testimonials”:
I had been losing 3 to 4 iPods a day due to theft or just leaving them laying around. My friends were starting to say that I had more money than brains with all these iPod purchases.
Well, I picked up a Hide-a-Pod the other day and I haven’t lost an iPod since. If I leave it somewhere and go back later it’s always right there were I left it. I guess I have both money and brains now.
Even better, from the FAQ:
How can you do this so cheap?
There were a lot of disappointed kids last Christmas who wanted an iPod but were given a Zune by some well-meaning friend or relative. Consequently, there is a glut of Zunes available on eBay every day. We buy ‘em cheap and throw away the guts to make our product at a great price.
If I had been drinking something when I first saw the page, I think it might, possibly, have come out of my nose. Just saying.
Apparently this guy has been making Marvel/DC spoofs that spin off not only the Mac/PC ads, but also the various superhero movies that have come out, and are continuing to come out.
As of this writing, Mr. ItsJustSomeRandomGuy has 13 of these… Very funny, nicely written, nicely paced. God bless the internet.
