Posts Tagged Language

Geek Blog – Math Geek Love Equation

Posted by Snowy in Geek Blog, Poetry on July 30th, 2010

This is for the GeekWife; I’ve been on the road from work for quite some time and now that I’m back, want to show her a token of appreciation.  She’s a bit of Math Geek, and she loved the Harold and Kumar Root 3 Poem, so here goes:

song chart memes-SnowytheGeek [via GJ]

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Trailer Tuesday – .NET vs JAVA

Posted by Snowy in Geek Blog, Video on July 6th, 2010

I don’t think this is real, but it sure is funny.

Thank you YT user BlueBassBRV.

The epic battle wages on….

-SnowytheGeek [via GaS]

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Geek Blog – Vader Gives Poor Directions

Posted by Snowy in Geek Blog, Video on May 28th, 2010

Darth Vader supplies his voice as a downloadable option for the TomTom GPS device.  Here’s an imagining of that particular recording session.

As seen on YouTube.

-SnowytheGeek [via Kotaku]

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Geek Blog – Mega Man Alphabet

Posted by Snowy in Games, Geek Blog, Poetry, Video on March 25th, 2010

My good friend, James posted this to my Facebook wall yesterday.  The video will be on the Little Geek’s iPod as soon as I get home from the office.  Poor Roll, stuck with the broom.

-SnowytheGeek [via JS and GT]

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Geek Blog – Middle English Rap

Posted by Snowy in Geek Blog, Poetry, Video on January 6th, 2010

We’ve seen Shatner rap Shakespeare, and Klenginem rap in Klingon; this video takes it.  The cake, that is.  Red Yak produced the video (read the story here) and posted it under the YouTube user name veryredyak.  The rhythm of Middle English really lends itself to a hip-hop medium, and Chaucer’s epic Canturbury Tales is poetic, hence the rhyming aspect.  For my Word Origins/Linguistics course (medieval literature major) in college, part of my final was memorizing, and reciting (properly, which these guys to wonderfully) the General Prologue from the Tales.

Enjoy the video.  There will be a direct translation after the jump.

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