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Startup: Punctuation Counts

People on the Internet love to have an argument and be right, that’s mostly why I’m here. But remember, just because that idiot that you suspect of being a 15 year old mouth-breather is being a pompous jackass about ridiculous semantics, he may have a point. One seemingly harmless apostrophe could turn a clever [...]

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Startup: When Nerds Get Married

Real romance is just a Star Wars reference away. “My wife would never go for that.” Then you married the wrong girl, that’s what I say.

Of course I’ve also said things like, “Nah, you got her flowers last year. She won’t want them again;” and “Screw it, pull the plug;” and “It’s not herpes. [...]

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Startup: Dr. Evil’s Fan

There are two possibilities here: either this air conditioner was commissioned by a super villain; or, a copy writer was extremely bored at work and his editor is either lazy, or more likely doesn’t exist. Citing Occam’s razor, the super villian explanation took fewer words; therefore, it is the simpler explanation; therefore, is the [...]

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Startup: Trolling at its Finest

This magazine cover is fake, but I hate to admit I actually fell for it at first. Maybe it’s because of the stacks of old geek magazines from the mid 80′s to 90′s that really did get this cheesy. Alas, this is not real – it’s part of a set of fake-out decoy magazine [...]

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Startup: LOST, for IT Geeks

Once again I offer humor that may only resonate with a certain subset of the geek world, but this is (to me) hilarious.

“Hey Ed, I’ve lost a server.”

“Did the hard drive crash?”

“No, I mean it’s lost. It’s still running, still responds to ping, and is still providing client service – [...]

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Startup: Accidentally True

I’m sure some self-declared moral authority meant this as an appeal for teen abstinence. Instead, they just hilariously insulted the geeks. Touché my fundamentalist friends, I’ve been cruel to you, so you can have that one. Also I’m curious to hear engineerd™ tell us what his wife thinks of his choice.

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Startup: Start a Conversation You Don’t Want to Have

Fred Studios came up with this nifty 2GB USB flash drive about 4 years ago, and it has since been discontinued. I know I’ve seen 2GB drives for sale at [insert: storename(any)] recently, so I doubt limited capacity is the reason it’s no longer for sale. I’m guessing it’s because it only ever started [...]

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Startup: Geek Funerals

Growing up as a socially awkward geek means that none of your socially awkward friends will know where the line is or the meaning of the phrase “too soon.”

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This Isn’t The Droid I Was Looking For

Uncle Owen, this R2 unit has a bad motivator.

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