1:03 - Ten years into my career as a software engineer and all I've learned is that this is truer than I ever could have guessed when I first watched this.
"Pom-Pom just wrote, directed, produced and starred in a movie made on his cellphone. And he got into Sundance!!" It's hilarious how this is actually possible now...
January 30, 2006 - "Pom-Pom just wrote, directed, produced, and distributed a movie with his cellphone. And he just got into Sundance." January 23, 2015 - Tangerine, a movie shot entirely on an iPhone, premieres at Sundance.
I loved that 3D maze screen saver. It was cool because you could change the textures of the floor, walls and ceiling to anything you wanted. It almost makes me sad screen savers are obsolete.
"Either way, middle school kids are all idiots and they need as much of my help and guidance as they can get." My middle school experience tells me that everything in the quote above cannot possibly be closer to the truth.
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"Pom-Pom just wrote, directed, produced, and distributed a movie with his cellphone. And he just got into Sundance." That is some Matt Groening level clairvoyance there
This never gets old. I still use the opening line, about technology is magic when teaching new hires/trainees/students instead of starting off rambling about my 24+ years in IT and threatening them with an external modem.
"I keep telling you, they're BOTH floppy discs!" "You think this... is a floppy disc?" "Yes!" "It's not a hard disc?" "No!" "And you're sure about this?" "Absolute-OW!"
I just prefer disk to refer to floppy disks and disc to refer to compact discs BTW: the smaller floppies are still floppy inside, just encased in a hard shell
yes and no, PDAs were extremely popular back then and were incredibly similar, possibly even taking the idea from the popularity and many uses of a PDA, and possibly even the recent release of the iPhone at the time may have had a part in the making of this now very true to life joke.
My Intro to IT Scripting class in college started out with typing "Hello there!" in 0s and 1s, and I laughed hysterically, this is what came into my mind INSTANTLY! I wonder if I should send this to my professor...
You can always tell when there is an overly aged computer still in use for some random niche thing because they always seem to put that old maze screensaver on it.
"Why I've got some technology beneath my pants right now!" Do you get the feeling Strong Bad deliberately tries to make it funny to take his quotes out of context?
"Hidden teapots"? Please explain. (I liked Pipes, Maze, Gates Does Windows, that one with the haunted mansion, Mystify Your Mind... I never had a singular favorite.)
I love how Strong Bad, in this hypothetical educational film where he has complete control over what stays in, kept the shot of him getting absolutely shot down by Pom Pom.
The funny thing is how Pom Pom basically has a modern smartphone. I mean, we got interwebs, netflix and stuff like that, cameras, youtube... I have no clue what sundance is though, so I can't say how smartphone could do that.
this was the first 'Homestar Runner' cartoon I ever watched back in 2010. And between it and MST3K (classic series) it's one of the greatest long dead franchises I ever really got into. And I DO use the term "long dead" very lightly.
Where's the scene with Strong Sad and Strong Bad arguing over floppy disks and hard disks? That's one of my favorite scenes from the series. "It's not a hard disk?... and you're sure about this..."
I work at a job with ancient cash registers and sometimes we have to calculate a discount manually and we can't have phones so we have solar calculators on the register and every day I make mine say 30453080 cause the day has gotten to that point
Strong Bad seems like the last person you should ask about technology, as you couldn't get anyone more out of touch with how it has progressed over the years.
