Conan: Do you feel that we now ... take technology for granted?
Louis CK: Well yeah, 'cause now we live in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on just the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots that don't care. This is what people are like now: They got their phone and they're like "Uggghhh! It won't ..." GIVE IT A SECOND! It's going to SPACE!
It may be in jest, but he makes a great point and gives a little insight into how many in the generations before us must feel. Do we want to be "that generation"? I don't. I find myself constantly complaining about stuff like this. Maybe it's time to consider our lives now, and all that we have, with respect to a time when
On a less serious note -- Enjoy the clip below of comedian Louis CK on The Conan O'Brian Show.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Oh REALLY? ... Did you partake in the MIRACLE of human flight, you noncontributing zero???
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Avast ye! Will the scallywags at Google soon be feedin' the fish?
A post on the Freakonomics blog yesterday discussed Google's new consideration to anchor supercomputers on barges at sea to lessen taxes and harness wave power. The question posed in the article focused on the obvious: Blimey! WHAT ABOUT PIRATES?!?!
Aye, it is feared that sea-faring, hornswaggling lads-o-doubloons will heave ho and pillage what private information they can from the massive amounts of data on board the supercomputer barges.
The scene this forms in my fanstastical and childish mind looks something like Jack Sparrow-esque characters running around stabbing servers with swords and shouting things like "Yaaaarrrrrr!!! Bring 'er alongside and find ye the terabytes! Ye need t' hack it, steal the booty, sell it t' China and scuttle th' barge! Gar, whar's me bottle o'rum?"
... But then that's just me.
In case this whole thing sounds a bit proposterous to you, below is the IMB Piracy Attack map for 2008. Good luck, Google -- and be wary the jolly roger.
