Overclocking vs. Maximizing ..do I have a problem?
Easy to smirk at this, but I had many moments of disturbing recognition (my fave part is the MC Escher bit.. Weird Al is utter nutter genius without a doubt). I know we’ve all seen it 10^3 of times already, but I had to: in celebration of all things geeky to get in the mood for tonight’s geekmeet.
… I think I’m in trouble. GeekDinner tonight and I am suffering the effects of overclocking my processor – bioware not keeping up. It’s ridiculously easy to go into a temporal warp in front of a screen and unless you have a spouse who keeps you in check (LOL for Stii!! Belinda told me about YOU bru)
.. you too could become a sleepcamel.
I learnt the term a few years ago from an ex-Micro(not-so)softie from the heavyduty coding coalface. It’s not well, I think I have a problem. I’m currently on a sleepless stretch of 63.5 hours, and starting to get a little deranged & experiencing major data.loss. The fact that geekdinner is tonight, and I’m speaking (supposedly lucidly) is a concern.
Not sure that I’m going to be a safe driver. Don’t want to be the poster child of stern warnings that humans are NOT MACHINES. No matter how well you think you can override the default settings. I’m not feeling too well at all. ooops 8-/
Geez Louise… sounds like a little R&R is needed Max???
Overclocking… rings a bell
Well you survived? Or did ya?
Maybe you racheted up the adrenalin level to Max and set the drive to auto-pilot and were a raging success.
I bet you were.
When you hit 72 hours or so, just be sure to ignore everything the little blue pixies tell you. Believe me, it’s all bollocks.
Hartman!: fellow sleepless .. to thee I say ditto my friend :-P
Kyknoord: it worries me that you know they’re blue %-/
clearly my spam catcher also needs a little reset too.. I bothered to check the Akismet folder for once & found good comments in some VERY dodgy neighbourhoods (hope I haven’t lost too many other goodies by not checking b4) but Robert I had to rescue yours from being wedged between some thoroughly unspeakable company!
Whew! safe and thanks Scatterling but auto-pilot is as useful as teaparty rules in the jungle for Cape Town rushhour traffic esp. when dodging taxis AND blue pixies.. I set my course for bed instead :)
Look at all the references (in the Weird Al video) here – pretty clever….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_&_Nerdy
And with regard to overclocking (maybe not so clever…)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overclock#Disadvantages
sixty how many hours? I’ve worked through the night before, but never done it several times running…
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