Overheard in the lab:
You can't just dump stuff into it. You know, it's not a truck. The ER is a series of tubes!
If you have no idea what we're talking about, where have you been! OK I'll be a little less facetious ... watch this instructional video on the internet and tubes:
And if you are wondering what was that from, it's a remix of this speech that Senator Ted Stevens gave sometime last year.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
This is helpful. Senator Ted Stevens explains how the internet works.
And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in…
By way of BornUnderPunches at DailyKos comes this transcript of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Dumbass) pontificating on "an internet." I'm sure he'll do a superb protecting the internet (italics mine):
There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery…
Wired Magazine has the Foot-in-Mouth Awards for 2006. My personal favorite:
"They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those…
Hahahah, I foolishly thought that, when summer officially started, my life would settle down. Hohoho, so why don't I try to complicate things by, oh, I don't know, how about moving, and putting our house on the market?
So here are some updates that give a somewhat authentic snapshot of what I'm…