Alfreido's Blog

It usually hits you with little warning, little provocation and little effort. The realisation that you are a nerd. Here are 10 tell-tale signs that you are starting to become a nerd:

1. Your girlfriend/boyfriend made you choose between her/him and the computer… and the computer won.
2. You don’t call it pornography… you call it ‘pr0n’.
3. When you start your car in the morning, you wait for 3 beeps and someone to yell ‘Go!’
4. You quote Wikipedia in your English essays.
5. You can only talk to the opposite sex on MSN Messenger, and fumble for words when meeting up IRL.
6. Speaking of IRL, you actually say ‘IRL’ as opposed to ‘in real life’.
7. You create a list of 10 tell-tale signs that you are becoming a nerd (knowing full well you must be a nerd to know of the tell-tale signs)
8. Your idol is someone along the lines of John Carmack or Jimmy Wales. (Notice how I qouted Wikipedia… fark I’m such a nerd :P)
9. Your best joke is: “There’s 10 types of people in the world. Those who know binary… and those that don’t.”
10. You feel at home at Harvey Norman Electrical and Computer stores.

Image: A spoon-bending, 1337-5P34K-ing image of the Matrix

Apparently, these days, you can never enjoy a movie that was based on a best-selling book, according those “wise” people who call themselves movie reviewers. You have people like Roger Ebert (pictured right), who probably don’t do anything else but watch movies judging by his figure, saying that YOU, the innocent movie goer who might be scarred for life for watching BAD MOVIEZZ, shouldn’t watch certain movies because they don’t follow the books close enough.

Please, do the world a huge favour and shut those excrementitious orifaces that you people call your mouths.

What has sparked this anger, I hear you ask? Probably the can of Bundaberg Rum sitting right next to me. Oh… and the fact that I went to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix on the weekend. I must say, although I wasn’t as thoroughly impressed with it as I was with Goblet of Fire, I still enjoyed it immensly. Being the inquisitve person I am though, I logged onto Rotten Tomatoes to see what everyone else said about it. Sure enough, plenty of people were whinging about the movie. It doesn’t follow the book. They cut side-stories. J K Rowling is my hero. It’s the kind of dribble that makes you just shudder at the thought that these people represent our best interests with movies. I have read the book, ableit quickly, but the point is, whilst the movie deviates from the book in some cases, none of the magic (excuse the pun) is lost. Hell, I prefer the streamlined approach of the movie, as some of the details of the book weren’t needed. And by the way… J K Rowling liked the movie. The author of the book liked the movie. That’s saying something.

So, my closing comment is… If you haven’t seen the new Harry Potter movie, go and see it.

Image: A psychically confused Harry Potter from Order of the Phoenix.

Now for some good news for a change :P… I have a new job as a web developer. I am now under the employ of a company called Bam Creative. Be sure to check them out if you want your website done the proper way

Image: A dastardly copyright-infringing image of Bam Creative.