Avast, maties! This be Talk Like A Pirate Day and hope ye day is good. ARRR!
Me pirate name tis year is Landlubber Morgan the Gold and tis me song:
Most days are like all of the others,
Go to work, come back home, watch TV,
But, brother, if I had me druthers,
I’d chuck it and head out to sea,
For I dream of the skull and the crossbones,
I dream of the great day to come,
When I dump the mundane for the Old Spanish Main
And trade my computer for rum! ARRR!
T’ me,
Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho,
It’s “Talk Like A Pirate” Day!
When laptops are benches God gave us for wenches,
And a sail ain’t a low price to pay!
When timbers are shivered and lillies are livered
And every last buckle is swashed,
We’ll abandon our cars for a shipfull of ARRRs
And pound back the grog till we’re sloshed. Yo ho ….
When we hoist Jolly Roger the landlubbers dodge ‘er,
We fill ‘em with loathing and fear,
We’ll plunder and pillage each city and village,
Or at least clean out Wal-Mart of beer!
There ain’t no computin’ or morning commutin’,
No “Parking Lot Full” signs for me,
No lawns ta be mowin’ or bills to be owin’,
I’m knowin’ the pull of the sea.
T’ me,
Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho,
It’s “Talk Like A Pirate” Day!
That time in September when sea dogs remember
That grown-ups still know how ta play!
When wenches are curvy and dogs are all scurvy
And a soft-wear patch covers your eye,
Ta hell with our jobs, for one day we’re all swabs
And buccaneers all till we die!
So hoist up ye mainsails and shut down ye brain cells,
They only would get in the way,
Avast there, me hearty, we’re havin’ a party,
It’s “Talk Like A Pirate” Day!
ARRRRR…. Now have t’ run me old ship be sinkin!
(Song source)
Not sure whether I agree with it fully but this quote is pretty funny.
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”
- Matt Groening, Creator of the Simpsons
iPodMechanic is offering you a way to check how long your iPod’s life is left in this world.
You can find that out by going to iPod Death Clock. Type in your iPod Serial Number, answer a few questions about the general usage and the software algorithms will crank out your iPod’s life expectancy.
To spoil your fun… this is for entertainment purposes only. However it would be a good way to relatively determine when you need a new one, to plan to save up for one or (better yet) show this to your mom/ dad/ wife/ husband to convince them that you need a new iPod.
Muhahaha! 
And talking about being eco friendly …
Thanks to Justine from Tasty Blog Snack for making this.
This is me, I relate to this 100% … “I have to get ready!”.
And this too … “Procrastination”.
Funny but scarily true.
… did someone get fired for this? This happens to be from an exhibit at an AT&T store. Whoever did it deserves the award for the screwup of the year.
(Source: The Secret Diaries of Steve Jobs)
Officials confirm that all online data has been lost after the Internet crashed and was forced to restart. The global world is forced to go back to pen and paper, using owls for communication and trade with stone currency until problem is fixed. Time frame until problem is solved — indefinite.
Extra stationery supplies and owls can be purchased here or go to your nearest UPS or FEDEX outlet to purchase an owl. Stones can be traded and purchased with water or/and food here. The current currency rate is: 1 stone = 1 cheeseburger, fries and large drink.
Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash
I love the Simpsons — can’t wait to see the movie. Here is how J, me and Miles will look in a Simpsons cartoon. Thanks to Kristarella for the Simpsonize Me link.
I was reading the Business2.0 magazine today and was amused at their list of “101 Dumbest Moments in Business: The year’s biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers”.
It was a pretty long list but nevertheless a good read. 4 stood out for me:
TextTrust Typo
Dam thatt spel-cheker, part too…
TextTrust, a company that uses a combination of software and human editors to scour the Web for spelling errors, issues a press release on the most commonly misspelled words it has found “on the 16 million we pages it has spell-checked over the past year.”
NTT Hackers.
You are entering an easily hackable page. Would you like to continue?
After NTT, Japan’s leading telephone company, introduces a system called Net Cash to protect customers from identity theft while shopping online, a hacker steals the ID numbers from more than 80,000 accounts. The information is used to spend $28,000 of NTT customers’ money.
Tearing Picasso a new one…
After striking a deal to sell Picasso’s “Le Reve” (”The Dream”) for a record $139 million, casino mogul Steve Wynn decides to show the masterwork to a group of visitors in his Las Vegas office. As he gestures, Wynn hits the painting with his elbow, causing what’s later reported as “a distinct ripping sound.” Wynn cancels the sale and spends $85,000 to have the painting restored.
Cryonics pioneers
I knew we should’ve gone for the freezer with the lifetime guarantee…
The bodies of Raymond and Monique Martinot, pioneers of the cryonics movement — which seeks to freeze the newly dead in the hopes that future scientists will be able to revive them — thaw after a freezer malfunction. Son Rémy has them cremated.
And they are paid big bucks for…? 
Can you shut down your computer and not touch it for 24 hours? Denis Bystrov and Michael Taylor has come up with an experiment to see how many people can do it. They are naming it The Shutdown Day and it’ll officially be on March 24th. I’ll try, but it’ll be tough.
