- One year of "no computer questions" from everyone in your family
- Private show by the remaining cast of Monty Python
- Simultaneous devolution of all intelligent design proponents into chimpanzees
- The Sword of a Thousand Truths
- A "Nuke the RIAA from orbit" button (The type you press, not the type you wear)
- Charles Babbage's brain in a jar of formaldehyde.
- Life-sized, fully-functional Bender
- Star Wars Holiday Special where Jar-Jar gets trampled to death by Santa's eight tiny Wookiees
- Ten terabyte video iPod nano with expandable screen
- Guided tour of Area 51
- Customized Google logo on your birthday
Worst Gifts for Geeks
- Coupon for 1 Year of Free Computer Service
- Age of Office Assistants video game
- Box of floppies
- Swiss Army Spork
- "Sodium + Glass of Water" Gift Set
- A copy of Windows 3.x For Dummies
- ie51setup.exe
- Their very own Bonzi Buddy
- Year's supply of Diet Caffeine-free Mountain Dew
- AOL membership
- "Greedo Shot First" T-shirt
Signs It's Christmas in Geekville
- You hear more chipmunks on the radio than you've *seen* all year
- Latest installment of Lord of the Rings is available on DVD
- Stockings are hung by the firewire with care
- Suddenly everyone is making stupid puns about Red Hat
- You start seeing pop up ads for Easter Candy
- People are putting snow tires on their Segways
- Eggnog in a punch bowl that's the shape of Nog's head, the Ferengi from DS9
- The special gift tags came back from the printers with 'All your presents are belong to us'
- Downloading a lot more Christmas carols from bit torrent
- Object Tree takes on a whole new meaning
- Start seeing ads for Madden 2008
Ways Geeks Celebrate Christmas
- Mountain Dew-nog
- Printing out "One Year of Free Computer Service" certificates to give to the family.
- Designing elf-killing levels for your favorite FPS.
- Explaining to children how it would be physically impossible for Santa to deliver all the presents.
- Wear mistletoe hat and keep fingers crossed.
- Devise a computer-controlled system to detect and prevent household members from trying peeek into their presents before Christmas.
- Put a santa hat on your avatar.
- Change the blue neon lights in the case to flashing red and green.
- Decorating the tree with SDRAM and CPUs burned out from your last overclocking experiment.
- 2. Rewriting Christmas carols in Tolkien's Elvish.
- Programming the christmas lights to flash out "I hate this holiday of unbridled consumerism" in binary.
Rejected Holiday Specials
- Chewbacca Sings Your Holiday Favorites
- Kwanzaa with Carrot Top
- You're a Fucking Consumer, Charlie Brown
- The Matrix: Re-gifted
- Santa Conquers the Arabs
- The Year Without Department Stores
- Steven Spielberg's E.L.F. (Electronic LifeForm)
- A Very Hasselhoff Hannukah
- William Shatner Goes A-Caroling
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Coke Fiend
- An Insane Clown Posse Christmas
Ways Geeks Were Naughty This Year
- Used GOTO
- Recommended the use of Internet Explorer
- Programmed Robosapien to steal
- Scratched strangers iPod Minis when they weren't looking
- Started a flame war because they were bored
- Uploaded mislabelled MP3s of Wham!
- Didn't ground themselves before working on a friend's PC
- Used genius for evil, not good
- Voted for cliché entry in Fark Photoshop
- Told user that the 'Any Key' was the big button on the case marked 'Power'
- Recommended review at Tomshardware.com
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