Ladies and gentlemen, I now present to you the best news in the history of this universe or any other, including any universes that have yet to be formed, even artificial universes created accidentally or intentionally in the coming years as our scientific knowledge races ahead of our sense of responsibility. (What, too much?) Adult Swim is coming to DVD! Even though this makes my carefully (some might say obsessively) compiled VCD collection pointless, I’m still thrilled.

Remember that thing I said the one time about wanting to be a software engineer? Scratch that. I wanna be in a Smiths cover band.

Edsger Dijkstra passed away two days ago. Since computer science is still so young and most of its legends are still living, it just seems very odd to have one of them pass. Dijkstra’s name was one of the first that I learned as a beginning CS student, and one that I would hear often during my classes. He was brilliant without a doubt and did so much groundbreaking work especially in securing the mathematical foundations of programming. Not to mention that as I just learned from his obituary, he had a van used for travel that he called the Touring Machine. That alone sends his geek cred through the roof.

I just got a prerecorded telemarketing call while working in a campus computer lab. That’s the most ridiculous thing ever, as if its not enough that there are 2 or 3 of them everyday at home. I’m imagining a dark near future in which the telephone is only allowed to be used as a marketing device, enforced by corporate law and upheld by a puppet federal government. Of course, if we know anything about dark near futures its that we’ll have Robocop out there sticking up for the little guy, so it won’t be all that bad. I don’t know what he’d do about the phone laws, but I have to think it would involve a lengthy grassroots campaign to raise support, followed by lobbying and introducing new legislation to be approved by the House. Then there would be shooting, lots of shooting and maybe some explosions which Robocop would walk through unscathed and then ricochet a single precisely aimed bullet off the wall to hit the Speaker of the House who was holding Robocop’s partner hostage. At that point Robocop would quip, “Veto this, scumbag” to reveal the humanity that still remained under his indestructible titanium exoskeleton. God bless you Robocop, I don’t know what we’d do without you.

Absolutely horrifying. They’re spreading. What is it with squirrels and college campuses? I guess taking over OSU wasn’t enough for the little furry bastards. You know, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the squirrels were actually behind the latest wave of OSU riots. Sure, you could try to blame it on total idiots full of booze all you want, but I think its more than obvious that the real culprit here is the fuzzy gray menace.

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Unforgettably ridiculous imagery of the day: Puff Daddy/P. Diddy swaggering about on stage waving an American flag during the United We Stand special on ABC. Take that Taliban!

Hmm… didn’t seem to work quite like I expected. Never send a bot to do a man’s work I suppose.