My Top 10 Favorite Tech In 2010

Just like everyone else @parislemon, I too want to list top 10 of my favorite tech in 2010. Although I may not own some of the items but they’re still my fav and will be mine sooner or later. In no particular order:

1. Apple iPhone 4 — Oh come on, like you didn’t see this coming. iPhone has always been in my drool list. With addition of Cydia and Hackulous, my iPhone still rocking like a bad ass and acts as a chick magnet. 
2. Apple iPad — Magical and Revolutionary product. Great for travelling, meetings, and most probably playing with nephews and nieces.
3. BlackBerry — Errr.. society forced me to use BBM. Oh wait, and SocialScope.
4. Drobo — This device is for my bandwidth hunger, stores all my files in 1 simple box. Too bad no local distributor have this in their stores. Had to order overseas.
5. MacBook Air — Sexy, Thin, Light, did I mention Sexy? 256GB SSD is ftw and 13” with 1440x900 resolution is Sexy. Too much Sexy?
6. Honda CR-Z — I don’t own a must-have car but I own a must-have car garage. And this hybrid has to be in it. 
7. Instagram — THE app for photo sharing. Instagram totally changed the game for photo sharing, even our behaviour in social media. Everywhere I go, my mind thinks of Instagram-material first, no longer check ins nor status updates first. And what makes it even more fun, it’s exclusively for iOS device for now, feels like you’re in a billionaire club.
8. Twitter — Tweet tweet tweet tweet since 11 March 2007. Yea that’s when I first joined Twitter
9. Kinect — Ever since Wii came out with nunchucks and you can do amazing silly things with it, I’m fascinated what technologies lies beneath it. 
10. Google Reader — Always wanted to hit that ‘Mark All as Read’ button but end up reading all 1000+ unread feeds constantly. I’m starting to like ‘Sort by magic’ now, skim couple of articles, then ‘Mark All as Read’ >:)

Honorable mentions:

• Tumblr
• Android
• High Definition (HD) Video
• Range Rover

Ok I lied, apparently when I’m writing this there’s A LOT of things that I want. What’s your fav tech this year? Don’t like my list? Make your own.

Why Geeks Make Good Lovers

One of the Universal Truths that lie just beyond the fabric of modern society is the axiom that geeks, along with nerds and other peoples who overinvest in intelligence but boast underdeveloped social skills, make the best lovers. Once people realize this, the sexual revolution that will sweep through western culture will make the seventies look like the fifties, and I’m not talking about wider pants. The reasons why geeks are unparalleled as lovers are simple and many:

Geeks don’t sleep around. Geeks, through their higher IQ and therefore greater understanding of the tragedy of human condition, know that the dice only seem to have more sides on the other side of the table. Hence, they instinctively stay loyal to their lovers through thick and thin. Their social skills are also not well developed enough to support an affair, and frankly, geeks generally aren’t quite sure how they ended up with the lover they have attracted. When you date a geek, you know the geek will be yours until you are done.

Geeks are good at the things they try. When’s the last time you met a geek who didn’t have some secret skill just simmering below the surface of a simple-seeming life, honed in the wee hours of the night? It could be hacking, playing video games, or the ability to insert and remove those stupid computer power plug things from drives without cursing or breaking a finger. Let sex become their new favorite late-night hobby, and you know that a geek won’t quit until he or she has learned how to hack into your brainstem through specific genitalia interfacing in parallel with general dermal and oral bonding.

Geeks are not interested in status. Geeks became geeks because they chose to spend their time doing things that would not necessarily make them popular with everyone else in school, like sports and fashion. The ability to resist peer pressure is important to a geek. This means that a geek is more interested in their or your happiness than looking good to others, which will come in handy when either (a) you need attention, in any sort ranging from the nurturing to the lascivious, and also, because both of those things are not necessarily unorthagonal dimensions, any combination of the two, or (b) you need to be rescued because it is the climax of a teen 80’s movie. Or both.

Geeks haven’t formed bad habits. After years of serially dating lots of other women, many socially successful guys have become too confident to be intimate, think of women only for sex, and don’t have any intention of letting what in their minds is “just another girlfriend” enjoy the last spring roll. Let us not even pry into the diabolical, dark, twisted, and depraved mind of the girl who has serially dated many men. None of this is true of the geek, however. The lack of past romantic partners allows the geek to approach lovers with the zest of the neophyte. Geeks are not full of romantic confidence; however, once coaxed from their emotional holes like tame bunnies, they are eager to please and enjoy their newfound relationship.

Geeks can concentrate. Geeks can focus their energy on one task with the intensity of a hunting cheetah. Granted, the task they are focusing on may have more to do with hunting orcs with a +1 Sword of Piercing rather than hunting gazelles with claws, but the fact remains that a geek, once set upon a task and given Mountain Dew, becomes a tireless slave to their goal. Put a six-pack of Dew on the bedside table and a geek between the sheets, and you have found yourself one relentless lover. When’s the last time all night actually meant all night? When’s the last time you were with someone who, if they needed more of the night, knew how to get it?

Geeks have excellent finger dexterity. Geeks roll dice. Geeks play video games. Geeks flip pages in books. Geeks type a lot, and use characters like ~ and ^ and | that no one else has any use for. Geeks use calculators in postfix notation. As a result, a geek knows how to use his or her fingers to greatest possible effect. Whether you have a button that needs pushing or a joystick that needs joy, a geek is the person for the job.

Geeks have imagination. Once you have found your amazing lover, you wouldn’t want things to become boring. That is where geeks prove their real worth. Replayability is important to the value-conscious video-game playing geek, and this translates to relationships as well. Wouldn’t you want to date someone who has created a Quake 3 mod? Wouldn’t you want to date someone who has written steamy Everquest fan fiction involving elven incest? Wouldn’t you want to date someone who wished they were Morpheus rather than someone who wished they were Barry Bonds?

There are plenty of other reasons why geeks are the best lovers around, but don’t just take my word for it. Find the nearest sexy geek and coax that person into asking you out, even if you have to do so using instant messanger. Remember: the only non-sexy geek is a single geek.

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100 Quotes Every Geek Should Know

1. “Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.” — Dennis the Peasant, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. “Three rings for the Elven kings under the sky, seven for the Dwarf lords in their halls of stone, nine for the mortal men doomed to die, one for the Dark Lord on his dark throne, in the land of Mordor where the shadows lie. One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring the bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.” -LOTR
3. “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” - HAL, 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. “Spock. This child is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now, what do you suggest we do….spank it?” — Dr. McCoy, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
5. “With great power there must also come — great responsibility.”  - Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962)
6. “If you can’t take a little bloody nose, maybe you oughtta go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it’s not for the timid.” — Q, Star Trek: The Next Generation “Q Who?”
7. “Five card stud, nothing wild. And the sky’s the limit” — Captain Jean Luc Picard, uttering the last line of the series, Star Trek: The Next Generation “All Good Things…”
8. “If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want… Well, that’s where you’re right. But - and I am only saying that because I care - there’s a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.” - Chris Knight, Real Genius
9. “We’re all very different people. We’re not Watusi. We’re not Spartans. We’re Americans, with a capital ‘A’, huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We’re the underdog.” - John Winger, Stripes
10. “If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer.” - Ace Ventura, Ace ventura, Pet Detective
11. “I’m going to give you a little advice. There’s a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.” - Ty Webb,Caddyshack
12. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE - God (Douglas Adams), So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
13. “Some days, you just can’t get rid of a bomb!” - Adam West, Batman & Robin
14. “Bill, strange things are afoot at the Circle K.” - Ted, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
15. “Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.” - Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
16. “Didja ever look at a dollar bill, man? There’s some spooky shit goin’ on there. And it’s green too.” - Slater, Dazed and Confused
17. “Alright, alright alright.” - Wooderson, Dazed and Confused
18. “Heya, Tom’, it’s Bob from the office down the hall. Good to see you, buddy; how’ve you been? Things have been alright for me except that I’m a zombie now. I really wish you’d let us in.” Jonothan Coulton,Re: Your Brains
19. “Never argue with the data.” - Sheen, Jimmy Neutron
20. “Oooh right, it’s actually quite a funny story once you get past all the tragic elements and the over-riding sense of doom.” - Duckman (Jason Alexander)
21. “Fantastic!” - The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston), Doctor Who
22. “I must not fear. / Fear is the mind-killer. / Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. / I will face my fear. / I will permit it to pass over me and through me. / And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. / Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. / Only I will remain.” - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, Dune
23. “This is the way society functions. Aren’t you a part of society?” - Kramer, Seinfeld
24. “Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we’re not back by dawn… call the president.” - Jack Burton, Big Trouble in Little China
25. “No matter where you go, there you are. ” - Buckaroo Banzai, Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
26. “Do you know of the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold in space.” -Khan, ST:TWOK
27. “Ray, if someone asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!” - Winston, Ghostbusters
28. “Greetings, programs!” -Flynn, TRON
29. “I guess you picked the wrong god-damned rec room to break into, didn’t you?!” -Burt, Tremors
30. “I find your lack of faith disturbing.” -Darth Vader, Star Wars
31. “Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at your side, kid.” -Han Solo, Star Wars
32. “Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” - Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
33. “It’s a moral imperative.” - Chris Knight, Real Genuis
34. “Talk with your mouth full / bite the hand that feeds you / bite off more than you can chew / dare to be stupid” - Weird AL “dare to be stupid.”
35. “Well, let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning’s reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.” - Egon, Ghostbusters
36. “This episode was BADLY written!” -Gwen, Galaxy Quest
37. “Worst. Episode. Ever.” - Comic Book Guy, The Simpsons
38. “Goonies never say die.” -Mike, The Goonies
39. “Nothing shocks me–I’m a scientist.” - Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
40. “Bright light! Bright light!” - Gremlins
41. “The Road goes ever on and on/Down from the door where it began/Now far ahead the Road has gone/And I must follow, if I can/Pursuing it with eager feet/Until it joins some larger way/Where many paths and errands meet/And whither then? I cannot say.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
42. “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!” - Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
43. “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” - Albert Einstein
44. “Wait a minute, Doc. Ah… Are you telling me you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean?” - Marty McFly, Back to the Future
45. “Don’t call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight blob of grease!” - C3PO, Star Wars
46. “I’d just as soon kiss a wookiee!” - Princess Leia, The Empire Strikes Back
47. “But one thing’s sure: Inspector Clay is dead, murdered, and somebody’s responsible.” - Detective,Plan 9 from Outer Space
48. “I know kung fu.” - Neo, The Matrix
49. “This is your receipt for your husband… and this is my receipt for your receipt.” - Officer, Brazil
50. “Your soul-suckin’ days are over, amigo!” - Elvis, Bubba Ho-Tep
51. “I don’t believe there’s a power in the ‘verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct-tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.” - Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly(episode: “Serenity” (pilot))
52. “Would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?” - El Guapo, ¡Three Amigos!
53. “Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!” Vizzini, The Princess Bride
54. “There is no Earthly way of knowing… which direction we are going. There is no knowing where we’re rowing, or which way the river’s flowing. Is it raining? Is it snowing? Is a hurricane a’blowing? Not a speck of light is showing so the danger much be growing. Are the fires of hell a’glowing? Is the grisley reaper mowing? YES! The danger must be growing for the rowers keep on rowing AND THEY’RE CERTAINLY NOT SHOWING ANY SIGNS THAT THEY ARE SLOWING!!” - Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
55. “Time…to die.” - Roy Batty, Blade Runner
56. “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” J. Robert Oppenheimer
57. “Check, please.” - Lone Starr & Barf, Spaceballs
58. “So say we all.” - Battlestar Galactica
59. “After very careful consideration, sir, I’ve come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.” - General Beringer, WarGames.
60. “I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar.” - Wash, Serenity
61. “No matter what you hear in there, no matter how cruelly I beg you, no matter how terribly I may scream, do not open this door or you will undo everything I have worked for.” - Young Frankenstein
62. “Ahh, a bear in his natural habitat: a Studebaker.” Fozzie, The Muppet Movie
63. “He’s dead, Jim.” McCoy, ST:TOS
64. “Who’s gonna turn down a Junior Mint? It’s chocolate, it’s peppermint - it’s delicious!” - Kramer,Seinfeld
65. “Bring out your dead.” Monty Python and the Holy Grail
66. “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!” -Inigo, The Princess Bride
67. “Why a duck? Why-a no chicken?” - Chico Marx, Cocoanuts
68. “Redrum.” Danny, The Shining
69. “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.” - announcer, The Shadowradio drama
70. “We’re going to need a bigger boat.” - Chief Brody, Jaws
71. “Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming.” - Ian Malcolm,The Lost World: Jurassic Park
72. “Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.” Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space
73. “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” - President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove
74. “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.” - Obi-Wan, Star Wars
75. “Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!” - Taylor, Planet of the Apes
76. “You maniacs! You blew it up! Oh, damn you! Damn you all to hell!” - Taylor, Planet of the Apes
77. “Klaatu barada nikto.” The Day the Earth Stood Still
78. “Monsters from the Id.” - Doc Ostrow, Forbidden Planet
79. “ET phone home.” - ET
80. “What… is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?” - Bridgekeeper, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
81. “We thought you was a toad!” - Delmar, O Brother Where Art Thou?
82. “Face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot!”–Mary Jane, Spider-Man.
83. “You don’t have to be a gun.”-Hogarth, The Iron Giant.
84. “Danger Will Robinson! Danger!” - Robbie the Robot, Lost in Space
85. “Yeah, well. The Dude abides.” - The Dude, The Big Lebowski
86. “All things serve the beam.” various instances, The Dark Tower series
87. “You can’t fool me! There ain’t no Sanity Clause!” - Chico Marx, A Night at the Opera
88. “Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” - Harry Lime, The Third Man
89. “And I said, I don’t care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I’m, I’m quitting, I’m going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they’ve moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn’t bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it’s not okay because if they take my stapler then I’ll set the building on fire…” - Milton Waddams, Office Space
90. “Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything that I thought it could be.” - Peter Gibbons, Office Space
91. “Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho.” - John McClane (in writing), Die Hard
92. “Gimme some sugar, baby.” - Ash, Army of Darkness
93. “Well hello Mister Fancypants. Well, I’ve got news for you pal, you ain’t leadin’ but two things, right now: Jack and sh*t… and Jack left town.” - Ash, Army of Darkness
94. “Kneel before Zod.” - Zod, Superman II
95. “Shall we play a game?” - Joshua, WarGames
96. “Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.” - Samantha, Night of the Comet
97. “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses.” “Hit it!” - Elwood, The Blues Brothers
98. “Make it so” / “Engage” - Captain Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
99. “Ya Ta!” - Hiro Nakamura, Heroes
100. “End Of Line” - The MCP, TRON

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100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

Audio Visual Entertainment

1. Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something
2. Super 8 movies and cine film of all kinds
3. Playing music on a audio tape using a personal stereo - see what happens when you give a Walkman to todays teenager
4. The number of TV channels being a single digit - I remember it being a massive event when the UK got its 4th channel
5. Standard Definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room
6. Rotary dial televisions with no remote control - you know, the ones where the kids were the remote control
7. High-Speed Dubbing
8. 8 Track cartridges
9. Vinyl records - even todays DJs are going laptop or CD
10. Betamax tapes
11. MiniDisc
12. Laserdisc - The LP of DVD
13. Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations (digital tuners + HD Radio bork this concept)
14. Shortwave radio
15. 3D movies meaning red/green glasses
16. Watching TV when the networks say you should - Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one
17. That there was a time before ‘Reality TV’

Computers and Video Gaming

18. Wires - OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long
19. The scream of a modem connecting
20. The buzz of a dot matrix printer
21. 5 and 3 inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage
22. Using Jumpers to set IRQs
23. DOS
24. Terminals accessing the mainframe
25. Screens being just green (or orange) on black
26. Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it
27. Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID
28. Counting in Kilobytes
29. Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade
30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time
31. Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load
32. Joysticks
33. Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive
34. Booting your computer off of a floppy disk
35. Recording a song in a studio

The Internet

36. NCSA Mosaic
37. Finding out information from an Encyclopedia
38. Using a road atlas to get from A to B
39. Doing Bank business only when the Bank is open
40. Only shopping during the day, Monday to Saturday
41. Phone books and Yellow Pages
42. Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees
43. Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words
44. Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it
45. Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment
46. Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind
47. Archie Searches
48. Gopher Searches
49. Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet
50. Privacy
51. The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them
52. Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs
53. Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something
54. The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always on and always connected PCs
55. The time before PC networks
56. When Spam was just a meat product (or even a Monty Python sketch)

Gadgets

57. Typewriters
58. Putting film in your camera - 35mm may have some life still but what about APS or Disk?
59. Sending that film away to be processed
60. Having physical prints of photographs come back to you
61. CB radios
62. Getting lost - with GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away
63. Rotary dial telephones
64. Answering machines
65. Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart
66. Pay phones
67. Phones with actual bells in them
68. Fax machines
69. Vacuum cleaners with bags in them

Everything else

70. Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for EVERYONE to listen to during a long drive
71. Remembering someone’s phone number
72. Not knowing who was calling you on the phone
73. Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie
74. Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s
75. LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the old wheel, window or door
76. Waiting for the television network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theatre
77. Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights
78. Neat handwriting
79. The days before the Nanny State
80. Starbuck being a man
81. Han shoots first
82. “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father” - but they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise
83. Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC
84. Trig Tables and Log Tables
85. “Don’t know what a Slide Rule is for…”
86. Finding books in a card catalog at the library
87. Swimming pools with diving boards
88. Hershey bars in silver wrappers
89. Sliding the paper outer wrapper off of a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil of break off the first finger
90. A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in the UK)
91. Having to manually unlock a car door
92. Writing a check
93. Looking out the window during a long drive
94. Roller skates, as opposed to blades
95. Cash
96. Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the Internet
97. Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall
98. OMNI Magazine
99. A physical dictionary (either for spelling or definitions)
100. When a ‘Geek’ and a ‘Nerd’ were one and the same

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