Archive for the ‘Memes’ Category

Unfortunately Geoff

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Found on Meyerweb: try to Google your first name, prepending “unfortunately”.

Unfortunately Geoff is utter crap at telling jokes!
I can’t dispute that. There’s a reason I studied Engineering and not comedy.
In its original dust jacket, a first edition of Tarzan of the Apes is worth about $75000 - unfortunately Geoff doesn’t yet have one.
Geoff didn’t even want one, until he learned it was worth 75G!
Unfortunately, Geoff died several years ago.
Damn, somebody could’ve […]

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Lost in Translation?

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

From Lori’s site:

Take the lyrics to a favorite song.
Go to Google Language Tools and translate the lyrics into German; then from German to French; and finally from French back into English.
Post the results verbatim.
Invite your friends to guess the song based on the newly mangled lyrics.

“There keep of Oh- I you by the window and me absurd thus bound in top to you stare of wear nothing however you wear him wellbeing and, does not come […]

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Mindlessness

Monday, March 28th, 2005

As seen on Lori’s site:

Grab the nearest book. Don’t search for something cool. Grab what’s actually closest to you.
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Rather we have to ask how invariant representations are formed in every single cortical region.

Man, my books must seem pretty dull.

Edit: That line was actually from page 125 of the book I’m reading; I accidently opened to the wrong page… […]

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