Translating Technology with Humor
This is a great video of a ball girl out performing the outfielder in a minor league game. You can do anything if you put your mind to it…
A friend showed me this ‘translation’ of an Indian music video. I’m still laughing deep, deep, deeeeep inside. The translation (or interpretation or guess or this should be on the daily show) is exactly how I feel when I’m listening into foreign conversations. You pick-up on words, those English-like words and assume that’s what they are saying. Usually you’re batting way below average, but occasionally some English words like ‘Internet’, ‘Computer’ and ‘American Idol’ are easy to spot. For this video, I do believe this is not a ‘translation’ but the Technically Foreign way Indian’s speak:
I love coffee and Computers (well that hole bundle of joy called the Internet-gadget-billion-of-transistors). That’s a lot like having a pet mouse, cat and dog living in the same room. Only a matter of time before the expected arrives. Information Technologies or for the lack of a better term ‘Computer Geek’ needs coffee (Or anything with caffeine) to function. Its written inside our DNA next to the ‘online-gaming addiction’ area. So this is a salute to all Coffee drinking Techy’s, Drink and Surf safely.
Cup Holder Optional:
Is that an Expresso machine inside you or are you just too hyper to see me?
The Coffee Mate PC – All a programmer needs…
As I stumbled away this morning that magic button took me to something that surprised me. A girl geeks website, well actually a girl gamers site called Game Girl. I have nothing against the increase amount of Girl Geeks and hope more Girl-Hackers, Girl-Gamers and Girl-Technologist geeks are morphed. However this post is about the lack of girl geek apparel…
So the article in mind is Top 7 Geek Panties (for girls). This is what Technically Foreign is about, finding the details of a society that aren’t yet inside the mainstream making them foreign to the general public. I hope after reading this article we all fight for the equal rights of Geek Clothing for girls. Maybe a Geek Girl should make a Web Petition. But I believe they’ve got a good start from those top 7 and above is only a peak.
{{Photo from: http://www.gamegirl.com/article/55313/top-7-geek-panties-for-girls/ photo and all rights belong to them }}
After a long day and many crashing Windows machines I’ve decided to lean inward and grab good old curiosity and let her scream. I’ve done it, apparently Chavez got the wrong guy. According to popular weblore Bill Gates might be the devil, not President George W. Bush. However what makes people think that Gate’s is so Devilish? What makes so many people hate this geek? I for one can’t say I hate the guy, I may hate some of his products but lets face it when was the last time the guy coded an entire operating system himself? Never, only one man in the history of computers has done such a thing and that was Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Anyway back to the random Google experiment here, I typed in ‘Bill Gates the Devil’ into google and came up with about 448,000 results. Not bad, but how many on the first page are relevant?
Top link: The Bill Gates is Satan conspiracy theory . The site isn’t hosted in the US, so this is apparently an international belief. The Theory is quiet interesting in stating that if you add Bill Gates birth name (William Gates III) in ASCII then you get 666. Interesting theory. I wonder what mine is?
2nd Link: Bill Gates is the Devil, Hitler implicated – Which is an interesting article from the register dating back to 2001. It takes a humorous look at a German article which states the unpopularity of Gates and has a picture of Hitler on the opposing page. Someone must of had fun putting that order in.
3rd and finally: Since I don’t want to take you away from updating your Windows with the latest security patch. This was not third on the list however, it is a well written article on a statement which Gates said. Devil’s Advocate: Should Microsoft be paying you to use Windows?This article from silicon.com really shows the Devil at work as he suggests Google should pay users back for using Google. Now after reading the article and realizing that Bill Gates is the richest man in the world from the investment of one company – Microsoft – I wonder at which point he was willing to give consumers money for just using a product?
All the above may not prove that Bill Gates is the Devil, hell, it doesn’t make sense for the devil to be wearing geek clothing. To make things fair ‘Steve Jobs The Devil’ gets 312,000 but some of those might reflect on the ‘Fake Steve Jobs’ as well. In the end we love to symbolize anyone as good old Satan, hell, I’ve called some of my best friends the devil and sometimes a little worst. But until Bill Gates wears Prada I’d just say he’s just a geek who knew how to sweet talk and delegate.
/// PHOTO – William Henry Gates the Third Arrested for Speeding at the age of 19! Not your average Geek!