Sun 03 Aug
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Weird Science: It is absolutely true. If you play around with your computer long enough — if you file enough bug reports and submit some high-quality kernel patches — you will create supernaturally-powered, beautiful, brilliant women, and they will french you.
Sun 03 Aug
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Weird Science: Did you know that without trigonometry, there would be no engineering?
Sun 03 Aug
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Weird Science: Geeks always say that they were originally compelled to nerd out because they wanted to build tricorders, or talk like Darth Vader, or somesuch. But we all know that they really had Weird Science’s Lisa in mind. This character, who sprang forth like Athena 2000 from a hotwired PC-Jr — this is why we all have more than 640k RAM, for real. You know Bill Gates still secretly goes over to Steve Jobs’ house so they watch this movie, whenever Melinda’s out battling malaria, which is totally like all the time these days.
Sun 03 Aug
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Weird Science: Undeniably, John Hughes had class up the ass — check the stately E’s and R’s on this little number.
Sun 03 Aug
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Weird Science: SIGGRAPH ‘08 presentation by Fujitsu’s R&D department — A live demo of a legacy RTGF updated to utilize dynamic distributed MIPS allocation (known now as “cloud computing”) in support of a novel PIA (Porn Introspection/Acquisition) scheme. Pictured here is the PIA’s proprietary optical ABI.
