Oh yes, pump up those referrals!
I don’t know if it’s the global economic apocalypse, or what, but I’m having a hard time mustering the required level of enthusiasm for buying more stuff.
You’re growing up…
And I just don’t know…when will I…??
Bye.
I was going to post another edition of Gifts for Geeks, as I did in 2006 and 2007, but my heart’s just not in it this year. I don’t know if it’s the global economic apocalypse, or what, but I’m having a hard time mustering the required level of enthusiasm for buying more stuff.
Global what-now? I call Fatherhood the culprit.
Over the last few months the posts on here have become fewer and those that have shown up less interesting. Have you completely stopped programming? Perhaps you should consider renaming the blog, coding seems to be far from your mind these days.
Add on to this, you are now trying to depress us by convincing us the next great depression is on its way and we’re all doomed. Too bad I didn’t build that Y2K shelter, it may have come in handy in the upcoming collapse of society. Oh wait we survived that. Apocalyptic predictions have a very bad track record, none have come true yet- we continue to survive.
Dude, it’s called Mad Max, Road Warrior is the stupid American name.
i dont mean to insult your gift list, but that mad dvd gift seems pointless. To read a magazine on a dvd seems odd to me. Am I missing something here?
btw, i love your favicon though
I’m polish, and I don’t get the joke about the word Potrzebie. Does it sound funny when spelled by americans, or what ? I’ve read the wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie, but I still don’t get it. Why is it so funny. Could someone explain ?
Does the new MAD collection allow you to search the text? Because the old one did.
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Atario: does your PDF reader support text search?
@Bored Reader your an idiot, yes he has stopped codding completely, except of course for this little thing called STACKOVERFLOW.COM!!
Jeff, Just in case you haven’t missed it somehow check out the blue planet this was made just before planet earth by the same team. I assume it was recorded in high def their is certainly a blue ray copy available.
Just a small nit-pick, there are several scenes in Planet Earth that were not shot entirely in High Definition due to conditions.
I have to agree about the common man thing. Laid off twice in two years, surviving on a McJob that pays marginally more than unemployment, phone not ringing.
Oh yeah, spend spend spend. Nothing to see here. The economy is fine!
Just wondering what hermetically-sealed town you live in and what sort of businesses are thriving there because out here in the world with everyday people nearly everyone I know – in my family and at work – is cutting back. More brown bagging and more small-scale Christmases.
Even the German software company for which I work has scaled back initiatives, instituted cost-cutting measures previously unheard of and is pinching every penny. The current financial situation is indeed global.
Yes, economic uncertainty is a phrase to describe something. It’s called Reality. If you don’t think anything has changed for the common man, perhaps you need to open your eyes and look outside your narrow world.
Happy Holidays!!
I was at a Sony store in Socal and they had a demo of the kids show Cars, the difference between Bluray and DVD sold me. DVD you can’t see the crowd or license plats on the cars, Bluray its all very clear.
well if anyone has a give away version of everything that u are talking about
get in touch at : djsinging2k2@yahoo.co.in
PS:giveaway means free copies… i live within my means
It’s worth noting that there are two versions of Planet Earth - one has narration by Sir David Attenborough, the other is Sigourney Weaver. Given the choice, you should go for the former. I’m sure Sigourney Weaver does a decent job, but Sir David Attenborough cannot be beaten.
Apocalyptic predictions have a very bad track record, none have come true yet- we continue to survive.
True, but it only has to be true once. And do remember, in the story of the boy who cried wolf, there actually was a wolf at the end of the story.
I thought about getting the Mad collection just to get one particular feature from an issue in the late 60s or early 70s. They were looking at how America would develop in the future… they got stores so large that people would ride scooters around in them correct, they got Americans becoming a nation of fatties correct… the only part they didn’t get right (so far) was that the Chinese would invade the US and we would helpless to do anything about it since all the invaders would have to do is push us over and we’d be too fat to get back up.