The Great Geek Manual » Rantings http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog Spanning the width and breadth of the Geek dream Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:00:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Geek Rant http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog/geek-rant-9 http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog/geek-rant-9#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:00:33 +0000 PipedreamerGrey http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog/?p=11759 This is the shortest weekend of the year, thanks to daylight saving time. It’s kind of a bummer.

There’s only one way to stretch this weekend back out! That’s right, I’m gonna go watch me some Phantom Menace!

I just knew there was a reason I bought that movie.

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My plans for the night are pretty simple. I’m spending the night in, eating Pizza and watching… what else, Pi! Of course, the pizza is Little Caesars, so my Pie are squared!

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Mob (a near-future science fiction story) by Tom Scott from hurryonhome on Vimeo.

Hear that? That’s the sound of my mind blowing. I don’t even know what category to stick this into. It’s too chilling for the humor section. It’s too possible for the fiction section.

You know what the most frightening part of this is, though? Watching it for the second time, I realized that neither of my parents would have understood even half of this video, even if someone tried to explain it to them. It makes me wonder what lethal insanity the world will be in the grip of thirty years from now when I don’t understand the latest tech culture. It’s creepy the way technology changes the world in blink.

Source: Ignite London

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]]> http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog/geek-rant-5/feed 1 Geek Rant http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog/geek-rant-3 http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog/geek-rant-3#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:03 +0000 PipedreamerGrey http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog/?p=10702 I rented Knowing last night. Damn Zardoz! I’ll never be able to hear Beethoven’s 7th Symphony without thinking about that retarded movie again.

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