Best Business Card Ever!

Alright, I’m gonna blatantly rip this off — cause it’s that damn clever.

May I present my new business card:

Back to the internet roots.

As further evidence to my total geek affiliation, I will now admit to often enjoying the witty (to geeks anyway) banter found in various irc circles. For you total n00bs, IRC stands for “internet relay chat” and is as old as the internet itself. Back in 1994 when we were all using aol and discovering “chat rooms”, it was really the what we now call IRC.

Obviously no sane or intelligent person uses aol anymore, but the hardcore geek-d00ds still use IRC as there communication with others in the “real world”. Indeed, it is now the realm of haX0rs and star trek fans. I think that 3 or maybe 4 females use the IRC. Although not a regular participant, I do get my chuckles out of lurking and reading others’ communications. Sometimes they’re very clever, sometimes so pitiful that you can’t help but smirk. Either way, it’s always entertaining. If you can relate on the geek level at least.

The IRC is also the birth of most of the common internet memes that we all can relate to today. Pirates vs ninjas, lol-cats, bloodninja, and of course hax0r speek, amongst others. These pasty-white, sun-starved, hot pocket-eating, beady-eyed males are responsible for what most of the popular internet is made of. Between their sessions of WoW or other gamer activity, that is.

Regardless, here a few of my favs:

Spin: arrrr, pirates of the south west
Spin: thar be large pipes o’bandwith near ye’ol univarsety.
Pirate: yearg, ye may be an ta somethan thar.
Spin: what say ye we pull yonder USB hard disk longside yonder NMSU puter and begin tha lutin and plunderin.
Pirate: yearg. The master done gaved me a testin machine with a grand ol CDR.
Pirate: Avast!
Pirate: MP3s off the starboard bow!
Spin: stere clear of ye porn pop ups rollin in from tha east.
Pirate: I have mah trusty Opera browsa to help me fend em off.
Spin: encrypt the data holds, batton down thar security patches, argh thar be spyware abound.

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Self-made Internet Nerd Phenomenoms

Since Jen is not the geek that I am and was clueless to the following late internet memes, here’s a list as I can recall:

• Goatse.cx - The infamous stretched sphincter shot that started life as punishment for hotlinking. It even made it to the cover of Time.
• All your base are belong to us - An Engrish translation that quickly found its way stamped and graffitied all over various jpegs and signage.
• Numa Numa - Watch it, it describes itself. This New Jersey kid got way more attention than he asked for after releasing this vid to the masses. Even the song went to the top of international charts afterwards.
• Sweater Girl - I’ve mentioned this classy lass before. Buy some new damn pants already.
• Tron Guy - Minnesota grown. This guy hit infamy by making his own skin tight spandex outfit with neon and not wearing underwear under it.
• Peter Pan “Man” - Other than Richard Simmons, the fruitiest guy in the world, I think. ‘Nuff said.
• The Star Wars Kid - By displaying his “ahem” jedi-mastery in front of the camera, this dork achieved fame and was on to Letterman and Leno.

Wikipedia has some more…

And then there’s the “Snakes on a Plane” phrase, coke/mentos, Chuck Norris facts, Strong Bad and Homestar Runner, Hampster Dance and Badger Dance, and that damn 3D dancing baby.

So what else can you come up with — what am I missing?