This September, the fine folks at xkcd.com are holding a little get-together; a shindig, a doo-wop, a bunfight, a celebration, and yours truly wants to attend... which brings us to tonight's word.
Mighty Jalapeno! Now, a party of nerds, geeks, dorks, eccentrics, oddballs, whackos, fruitcakes, and fascinating physical and intellectual anomalies just wouldn't be complete without someone to remind them that they could all be much, much worse off, and that's imporant for so many reasons.
It's true that Mighty Jalapeno hasn't been on the forums very long, and despite his excellent grammar and skillful posting, he is still just a newbie.
He may not know as much about math and science as some of the elder xkcdians either, since he spent most of his time in college learning more realistically important and career-minded things.
But there is one thing that Mighty Jalapeno has that few other forumites possess...
... and that is life experience. He has a pregnant wife, two kids, a mortgage, and an ulcer, and those are things you can't get while studying to be a mathematician
or a rocket scientist.
Mighty Jalapeno needs this trip. The farthest he's ever travelled is Mississauga, scenic gateway to Guelph, and that was spent stuck in the back of an Aerostar reading Xanth novels.
He's going to bring a buttload of kickass stuff, too, assuming he can bring it on the airplane! He's got a nice bass / amp / pedal setup, and a pretty little Dell laptop loaded to the gills with music and movies. He might not be able to bring beer on an airplane, but he can bring smoked salmon, buffalo steaks, Carribbean red peppers, and, of course, his personal stash of win.
He'll also be holding lectures on a variety of interesting topics in his field of expertise, namely green architecture, sustainable development, personal organic food gardening, and other subjects for the individual home.
His wife will also be coming, if the supplied air-miles can supplement all the air-miles that they've built up over the years. This would be their first vacation together without kids in the history of the Universe, and whenever there's a first like that, you know you wanna be there. She enjoys knitting Klein bottles, Sid Meier games, and chubby nerdy geeks.
So the choice is clear, ladies and gentlemen. You can go with the dweeb with the stormtroopers, or the tempermental actress, or any of the other mediocre forumites who didn't care enough to fire up Photoshop and go to town with copyrighted material... or you can think about what you really need to spice up a good party.
And that's The Word.
1 comment:
That really cracked me up when I first saw it. Kudos. I hope we can both make it to the meet.
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