Category Archives: Owned

I Found Your Diskette…

magnet on disk

Read the caption on this image… if you don’t understand the humor then you are not geeky enough and you need to upgrade your pocket protector with the latest Mega Protector 9000.

And the caption says:

Hello dear,

I found the disk you were so frantically looking for yesterday.

OK, OK…. I won’t leave you out, basically a diskette is made from a piece of plastic with iron oxide on it. Iron oxide is a ferromagnetic material which just means if you expose it to a magnetic field, it will stay permanently magnetized. And yes, i did say ferromagnetic. 🙂

So when you save something on a disk what happens is little particles of that iron oxide are magnetized to indicate if it represents a 1 or a 0. Binary!

This nice lady just put a magnet on her husband’s disk — which he had been frantically searching for — and most likely scrambled everything on that disk. Oops!

Quentin Tarantino Owns Jan Wahl

If you are from the San Francisco bay area you might know of Jan Wahl.  Jan Wahl is a movie reviewer on KRON4 and in this video she is interviewing Quentin Tarantino regarding his movie Kill Bill.

As you will see Jan Wahl tries to attack Tarantino, and even from the start makes a rude comment about his looks.  Tarantino handles the situation pretty well and owns Jan Wahl from start to finish.

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John McCain’s MySpace Page Hacked

Here is a tasty nugget I picked up over @ tech crunch. John McCain’s myspace page was hacked, er… “enhanced” when his staff used a profile template designed by Mike Davidson.

Mike Davidson gives out the myspace profiles for free as long as you credit him as the author, but apparently McCain’s staff removed the mandatory credit link and in retaliation Mike Davidson pulled the ol Switch a Roo on one of his images.

[Link to Techcrunch]

How To Write a Farewell Email to Your Office

Well, this letter has been floating around the net for a couple years now, but it’s great and i am reposting it here because I’m sure a few people will enjoy it.

And so it begins….

Dear Co-Workers,

As many of you probably know, today is my last day. But before I leave, I wanted to take this opportunity to let you know what a great and distinct pleasure it has been to type “Today is my last day.” Continue reading How To Write a Farewell Email to Your Office