This is the thread for the best youtube videos; you could make a different thread for that one.
Yes, I suppose I did let a vice for (subjectively) convincing slapstick overwhelm my commitment to a higher standard, there. Sincere apologies all around.
Post-It
3265
I was just about to post that! Too funny.
Dean
3268
That’s the third appearance of Ninja Cat in this thread, so I followup with Cat vs. Ninja Chipmunk!
That is one crazy chipmunk.
Miramon
3270
Hopefully these aren’t somewhere up in the thread.
Human Pixel video games (French people with too much time on their hands):
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Samsung stadium event (Koreans with the same problem, but in real time, not stop-motion):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Jo0BRdbO4
I wonder how many staff-hours that Samsung event used up in practice and performance.
Nerdtastic.
Also, ‘Rooters’ – is that how brits say it?
Kael
3274
I was remoting into a customer in England helping them troubleshoot an issue. Im American and this was one of my first times working with them.
The customer started the conversion by letting me know they had “rooter” issues earlier that day. Im a genius, the kind of guy you call from around the world when no one else can fix your issue (or so I thought), so if I hadn’t heard of a “rooter” before it must not be important. So I disregarded whatever he was babbling about and kept working.
This was all forensic work. They had an issue earlier that day and I was supposed to dial in, tell them what happened and how to keep it form happening again. This is how the conversation went:
Me: “Hmm… change cache is high but dropping, sync deltas are off, looks like this server may have been unable to synchronize with the others for a few hours.”
Him: “Do you think that could have been from the rooter issue?”
Me: “No. This other server is showing the same thing. Hmm”
Him: “…”
Me: “Yeah, they all show it, this is systemic. Are you sure you didn’t have any communication issues this morning?”
Him: “Well nothing except for the ROOTER PROBLEMS!”
Just then it dawned on me what he had been telling me for the past 30 minutes and repeated at least a dozen times. I felt like the biggest dork and I don’t think my performance was all that inspiring. But at least now I know what a “rooter” is, and that maybe its better to slow down and make sure I understand what my customers are telling me.
“root” is how the rest of the world pronounces “route”.
Oddly enough, it’s also how pretty much every American I’ve ever met pronounces route.
I’ve never heard any American say another other than “root 66” for “route 66”.
But for some reason everyone says router like the root (heh) of the word is rout (as in, run away!) as opposed to route. Go figure.
Good point, I do the same thing and it is inconsistent when you think about it. However, I notice that if I’m using the word ‘route’ as a verb, that I do say it like ‘rout.’ If I were to re-route some plumbing or circuitry, maybe, that’s how I would pronounce it. Not sure where I picked that up, do others say it like that?
Miramon
3278
Yep. I always say “root” for nouns like “Route 66”, and “rout” for stuff related to the verb and to technological applications that are all related to the basic tech item the “router”.
Dean
3280
So, for an actual video:
Spider-man and friends vs. Giant Robots
At first I thought this might be a cut scene from a new Marvel Ultimate Alliance, but at then end they just say, “Go buy comics!” Any idea where this thing came from?
