This XKCD was too good not to holler about. He just keeps crankin’ em out! And best of all, she’s a girl!
 4 comments - (Comments are closed)  Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Humor, Geek Stuff  backdoor, dream, engineer, idiot, magic word, restart, script, tech support, xkcd This XKCD comes at just the right time for me. I’m struggling with an issue with the Captcha in Yii Framework. In case you didn’t know, the captcha is that slightly distorted codeword that you type into a computer program to tell it you’re a human being. Bots supposedly can’t read them…. Of course . . . → Read More: Captcha a la XKCD Penguins are not big fans of Flash, that’s for sure. But they are a little out of touch and sometimes need a reality check. This reminds me of the old days when you had to do a little dance to get Linux to show the floppy disk icon on the GUI desktop. All I . . . → Read More: XKCD Nails Linux In a previous post I blathered about defacing toonlet® graphics. That activity was for the purpose of refining the best toons into a cohesive book. The first edition (40pp) is now available for download! Here are samples. The ebook has about 60 strips. It’s a free download for the time being. If you like the . . . → Read More: Laugh Poop and Die: A Toonlet Comic that Won’t Give you Diabetes 54 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Humor, My Book book, comix, cure GERD, deface, diabetes, dollar, donate, ebook, ebooks, hidden link, humor, humour, make a million dollars, Paypal, please, scavenger hunt, six-pack abs, stud muffin, toonlet, twitter, unemployed artist, web comix, web toons How many job descriptions have you seen that says “Ability to multitask a must?” Personally I have always thought that “multi-tasking” was bullshit. Oh, sure, you could have several projects open at once but if you flit tirelessly from one to another, you are engaging in what we used to call “thrashing” way back . . . → Read More: Multi-tasking is bullshit 16 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Humor, Geek Stuff bullshit, job description, job interview, multitasking, thrashing Weblebrity by tixrus Updated this old toonlet now that we can size them! Wheeee! 15 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Humor, Geek Stuff chicken and egg problem, ebook, fame, fortune, riches, social networking, weblebrity Helpful Take 2 by tixrus My daughter claimed that the original “Be Helpful” toon unfairly targeted men as the perpetrators of unconscious assumptions about who would have geek mojo worth paying attention to and and who would obviously not, based on gender. Nope, not really. The perp in the first toon happened to . . . → Read More: Be Helpful Toonlet Take 2: Gender Bender 12 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Humor, Geek Stuff cartoon strip, embed, female, geek girl, geek mojo, gender, girl geek, ignore, lack of respect, networking, professional, sexism, sexist, toonlet, weird pickup technique Helpful by tixrus . . . → Read More: Social Net Toonlet: Be Helpful! One comment - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Humor boob-gazing, boobs, geek mojo, girl geek, helpful, noobs, social, toonlet 7 is better than Vista? We…eeell, that’s kinda like death being eaten alive by fire ants is “better” than death by being shot by a water pistol until your flesh rots. Regex's save the day Pundits say you should produce original content but people visit when I embed xkcd comics in my blog. Another fave from XKCD. Gotta love ’em! The thing is, even when a dork such as yours truly actually does end up saving the day with a stunt like this, we usually . . . → Read More: Dork Saves the Day 4 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Humor, Geek Stuff annoy, fantasy, geek saves world, muggles, regex, regexp, regular expression |