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Category Archives: geek
Steve Jobs = Cthulhu
No, it’s true.
Really.
It makes total sense.
It explains so much.
Think about it.
Once, ages ago, a race of bizarre, loathesome creatures ruled the Earth. Writhing and gibbering in the Stygian darkness of their lair, ravening for the blood of those who worshipped them, this strangely Protean race nearly destroyed the youthful planet in its ceaseless quest to slake their endless thirst for the very souls of the damned.
They were the Great Old Ones. Eventually, they were banished; we can only pray that they never return to debase the race of humans again in horrific slavery and unthinkable perversion.
And in this pantheon, one monstrosity reigned supreme.
Right now, everyone reading is thinking “You’re wrong. These guys look nothing alike.” Of course not, his true identity is obfuscated by the best possible disguise known to man: Ugly glasses. Ugly glasses, made even more opaque by parting his strangely masculine hair differently. If Cthulhu had glasses and parted to the left, these would be virtually identical, right down to the AppleStore he’s crawling out of. Think I’m lying? Take another look.
That may just be the smartest, most dangerous thing I’ve ever read on LiveJournal. But there’s more.
So. Much. More.
Check it out:
Cthulhu: imprisoned in his tomb in Rlyeh, not dead but dreaming.
Jobs: Next.
Cthulhu: The Necronomicon
Jobs: Ayn Rand, The I Ching
Cthulhu: Politics
Jobs: Politics and more Politics
Cthulhu: something of a personnel-retention issue
Jobs: upon regaining freedom, destroys his innocent rescuers
Cthulhu: Lolthulhu
Jobs: Fake Steve Jobs
Cthulhu: advanced wireless telecommunication technology
Jobs: iPhone
Think about it.
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What’s your spammer name?
Makes total sense to me:
My Spammer Name is:
Meningitis G. Switchgear.
(What’s your spammer name?)
Stolen from SeismicTwitch
Now the question becomes, what do I spam for? I’m thinking Canadian pharmaceutical anti-inflammatories for overheated engines?
Are YOU a spammer? Take the Spammer Quiz from Spammers Anonymous and find out.
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Blogging for Nonprofits Course March 26th
OUR NEXT CLASS RUNS
Wednesday, March 26th
Current course: Blogging for Nonprofits
• What: a hands-on, blog building workshop including advice on how your organization can get the most impact from social media and blogs.
• When: 9 – 4 Wednesday, March 26th
• Where: Tradeworks Training Society, Downtown Vancouver
• Why: Learn to use social media and blogs to complement your organization’s mission. Get a blog up and running in one day with personal instruction in a small, intensive workshop.
This workshop covers blogging issues like:
> what social media can and can’t do for your organization
> posting rich media like podcasts, video, and images
> basic copyright law and accepted practices
> solving basic technical problems, where to find help
> privacy, confidentiality, and the internet
> balancing accessibility and professionalism online
> SEO, publicity, and building your media presence
Tuition is $200 per participant. Please pre-register via email prior to Friday, March 21st. No late registrations will be accepted. Computers are provided; you may bring a laptop if you prefer. Presented by raincoaster media ltd, in partnership with Tradeworks Training Society. Contact or 778-235-0592, bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com .
With class size limited to 6, this will be a program of personalized, intense learning. During the workshop you will create a blog, customize the design, and publish several draft posts including various multimedia formats such as video. You will leave with a functional, professional blog and the skills you need to run and promote it.
Why blog? Check out the creative, effective ways that other nonprofits are using blogs to distribute their message independent of the mainstream media:
> 10 reasons every nonprofit must have a blog
> 10 ways nonprofits can use blogs
> blogging basics for nonprofits
> net2learn blogging for nonprofits
Upcoming Courses: Corporate and Nonprofit Blogging, Pimp My Blog (blog
promotion), Blogging for Business, Audio Podcasting, and Photoblogging (online and in
Montreal, courtesy Neath of Walking Turcot Yards). Please email bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com to be put on the notification list.
Bio: Lorraine Murphy has been blogging for many years, and her flagship blog, raincoaster, is ranked in the top 20,000 blogs in the world. She maintains The Shebeen Club Blog for the literary group of the same name, running through rain for students of her course Blogging to Personal Growth, and Blogger’s Blurt, a resource for beginning WordPress bloggers. She mommyblogs at TeenyManolo and celebrityblogs at Ayyyy!. Ms Murphy is the author of Terminal City: Vancouver’s Missing Women and a former Small Business Columnist at Business in Vancouver newspaper and Occupational Pursuit magazine. As one of the cornerstone volunteers in the WordPress.com technical help forums, she has long experience helping beginning bloggers develop fluency and achievement online.
Contact us below for more details:
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RIP Gary Gygax
He failed his saving throw vs Death. You just can’t come back from a natural 0, even if you did invent the game.
Gary Gygax, inventor of the fantasy roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
-JRRT
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