My son was asking me what transformers ate the other day. I of course answered Energon… An dthen he asked how you make it. And i didn’t have an answer… Now I do. In true Internet meme style. Back that truck up Playah! We bout to change the transformer game

EpicMegaTime byNGSMOOV epic meal time – YouTube.

Siri is the new Apple personal assistant, voice recognition app. It can do so many things, and apparently one of them is comedy! Part of the challenge of designing software that reacts to people in real language is dealing with unexpected input. This isn’t a new problem, drop an F bomb in Zork, and you get the response “Such language in a high-class  establishment like this!” And Zork came out in 1979, people haven’t changed that much since then.

As soon as you can talk to a piece of software someone is going to curse, another is say dirty suggestive things. And apparently Siri has the response to all of it. Pop Culture references, Philosophical queries, foul requests. All of that can be found on the hilarious blog. Shit Siri Says. People submit conversations, and we all get to laugh.

But Siri, as a concept has never been far from Apple’s mind. For a bit of a jaw dropping experience take a look at one of the original concepts for a digital assistant, the  Knowledge Navigator.

Who says the internet can’t teach you things. The Adult industry has long since used the taboo subject of  Student / Teacher flings as fodder for a genre of its films. But this site, in response to those films is hilarious.

Blackboards in Porn is an academic studeny on the contents of the blackboards found in the background, foregrounds and underground world of internet porn. Taking the example below

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The Site breaks down the equations used on the blakcboard as

 1. S=0 A=0

2. S=1/4 A=1/16

3. S=1/2 A=1/4

4. S=1 A=1

5. S=2 A=4

6. S=3 A=9

And indicates that the text presented is actually an 8th grade level, and breaks down some of the text and what my or may not be the intent of the equations. The author usually comments on the penmanship and then adds in a fantastic last paragraph for each one.

“Finally, the teacher should make sure that her students keep their focus on their work. She only has three students, so can’t complain too much about the pupil-teacher ratio. The teacher is giving all her attention to the lone male student, allowing the two female students to talk to each other, thus reinforcing gender stereotypes of women in maths, despite being female herself. Sadly, it is this kind of attitude which leads to the ‘Math class is tough’ talking Barbie and low numbers of women choosing to study maths in further and higher education.“

This is hilarious.

h/t to Laughing Squid

There is nothing more fun as a Geekdad or GeekMom to dress your children up in small versions of memes, jokes and geek culture references. Enter the Babe with the Power Onesie!

As a throwback to the wonderful movie Labyrinth anyone who sees your kid dressed in this is sure to break out into song! I see the babe, what babe, the babe with the power, what power, the power of hoodoo, you do? do what remind me of the babe! I know i have it stuck in my head now hows about you?

ThinkGeek :: The Babe With the Power Creeper.

I saw this shirt at www.SnorgTees.com. After reading some more of the shirts, I was in tears from laughing so hard.

“Life is not one big joke, its a series of little jokes all lined up in a row… there they are look at them” ~Richard Pryor, Moving

There must be something in the water supply this week, or the moon is in an odd alignment or possibly, just possibly everyone I know is having at bad week at the same time. So I’m here to spread a little story and a chuckle.

I have been rebuilding our oldest plotter in work; a plotter is a big printer for those who didn’t know. This Bike sized printer has had more than its share of problems, but today took the cake. I finish a massive rebuild of the drive system, fixing belt issues, tracking strips and tension-er assemblies. This rebuild took the better part of two weeks. Its sounds more like a car then a printer right now. I put the last screw in, turn it on and watch the standard settings / printer test scroll across the LCD.

Just as the first text flashes onto the screen a smoke signal puffs up from the back of the plotter. followed by another. Either we had been inhabited by very tiny indigenous people or something was very wrong. I pull the cord out of the wall with a nice big blue spark and spin the machine around only to find a big puff of smoke coming out of a hatch. open the hatch see a sparky / smokey mess fizzle out. Not… Good… So the parts are on order to fix this.

You know you’re having one of those days when your printer catches fire… little did I know there was actually an error message for it lp0 on fire! Now I know what to file the report under. Thanks Chris for the heads up re the error