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Category: Video • Wobosphere Silliness
Posted on: June 22, 2009 8:38 AM, by Blake Stacey
Still gone. Have this week to teach Shannon information theory to management types who haven't seen a logarithm since high school and hated it then. Drink for me. Meanwhile. . . .
Sir Ian "You can call me Serena" McKellen instructs us how to change a car tire. The interviewer is supremely annoying, but starting at the two-minute mark, it's all worth it:
This man needs to star in a movie with Guitar Wolf.
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Comments
It could be a dueling bands movie, with Sir Ian and Guitar Wolf battling Christopher Lee and Rhapsody for control of the universe's supply of rock & roll.
Oh, fuck it. Make it a sequel to Six-String Samurai, too.
Posted by: Joshua | June 22, 2009 11:24 AM
Well, I found the audience more annoying.
I do like sir Ian. Wonderfully aware of the hamminess.
Posted by: Sili
| June 22, 2009 1:04 PM
"Still gone. Have this week to teach Shannon information theory to management types who haven't seen a logarithm since high school and hated it then."
So does this involve a crash course in the relevant calculus?
Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | June 27, 2009 12:24 AM
It's not nearly as fun as a crash course in, say, racecar driving.
Posted by: Blake Stacey | June 28, 2009 2:45 PM