Terminally Incoherent

When Neon Genesis Evangelion first came up on [adult-swim] I dismissed it as “yet another giant robot show”. I knew it had a cult status, and huge fan following. But I figured that people generally like these mecha themed shows. I personally don’t care for the big robot thing that much. I really didn’t think I would ever like this show.

Boy was I wrong! I have been totally sucked in, and now I’m impatiently waiting for the new episode each week. I can honestly say that in my book, Evangelion is one of the best anime shows of all time. It is totally opposite of what I suspected. The plot is really deep and full of mystery. Characters are incredibly complex and well developed. The story is really more a reflection on human nature and the human condition. This is how you make a good Scifi show

The retards that write scripts for SG: Atlantis should take notes. Yes, I said it. That show sucks! SG:A fans can kiss my shiny metal arse

I actually managed to spoil myself a little bit while browsing wikipedia, but oh well. I’ll try to stay away from any Evangelion sites until I see the rest of the series, and the movies that wrap it up.

Unfortunately both Evangelion and Fullmetal Alchemist are going to end really soon, which means I will be left without any Must Watch Anime™ shows on TV. (Ok, there is still Standalone Complex. It is good but I wouldn’t say it is a Must Watch™ show though).

What is on your Must Watch Anime™ list? What show/movie should I buy/download/procure next?

Anyone who says “I’m not good with computers” on a daily basis deserves to be larted into submission with a frozen porcupine! Please stop bragging about your lack of computer skills. It is not funny, or cute. Why are you people so proud of this? Why do you glorify your own computer illiteracy, and wear it as a badge of honor? Some of the skills you proudly lack are required for your job!

It is perfectly acceptable to have little or no experience with technology. Not everyone needs to be an expert. I’m not an expert in all fields either. For example, I’m not a plumber. But when my toilet backs up I do not proudly tell the guy fixing it that I have no bathroom skills, and that he might need to come back again tomorrow cause I’ll probably clog it up the minute he leaves.

But when people plop their broken laptops on my desk or when they ask me for tech support they seem to be proud as hell that they just fucked up their system. And before I even look at their computer they tell me that they will be visiting em allot in the future. They already know that they will fuck up on a regular basis and they just give me the heads up. WTF?

This is precisely the wrong attitude. It’s not that you can’t learn technology. It’s because you don’t want to learn it. All these people who brag about how they suck at computers, are simply refusing to learn even the most basic skills. You are setting yourself up for failure. “I’m not good with computers” is a self fulfilling prophecy. Didn’t they teach you this is your humanity classes or whatever you were taking in college? This is in the same league as “I suck at math” and “I will never learn a foreign language”. If you start with that attitude, you will most likely fail at anything you try.

And for God’s sake, do not sign up for Computer Science major with that attitude. You will be miserable, and you will make everyone around you want to repeatedly hit you with blunt objects. I recommend dropping out of college altogether, and finding a cozy blue collar job that will not require you to interact with any kind of electronic equipment.

Do you know what is the difference between an A and a D student? An A student gets the work done, while the D student keeps rambling on about how he is not good at computers, math and etc…

I just found out that the music in that old WOW video The Internet is for Porn was actually taken off the soundtrack to a broadway musical Avenue Q. If you never saw that vid (because you live under a rock), here it is:

Amazon is selling Avenue Q soundtrack, and offers samples of the songs for download. Here is the direct link to the porn song so that you can compare.

Essentially what the WOW guys did was to animate the characers and sync them up with the lyrics. Still, hell of a job

It seems that the new Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media protected by the HDCP technology will only play in full resolution on computers offered by big PC manufacturers. You must buy one of their stock systems, or forget about watching High-Def movies. Boxen built from scratch, or sold by small “mom and pop” hardware shops will be locked out.

HDCP compatibility is controlled by an inter-industry consortium of giant CE companies and Hollywood studios, and these companies have ruled that merely buying a HDCP-compatible graphics card is insufficient for gaining access to HDCP-locked video. Only systems designed from the ground up by OEMs (such as themselves) will be able to gain access to these videos.

This means that “Joe’s Neighborhood PC Shack” is going out of business soon, and you might have wasted allot of money buying that HDCP compliant graphics card. Surprise - it wont work.

But that’s ok… You can always grab a un-crippled hi-def torrent

This will spur unauthorized P2P systems into developing the capability of sharing high-definition video more reliably. After all, you may not be able to play Matrix Impossible 2000 at high rez on your PC if you buy the DVD, but you’ll sure be able to do so if you download it instead.

Nuff said.

To prevent future accidents, vice presidents should be given this:

Stolen from needlenose, found via boingboing.