Have you seen or heard or seenandheard Weird Al’s song “White & Nerdy“? It’s funny, but somehow the fact that Wikipedia has long page with, I assume, all of the details. Forgive me for repeating some of the obscene points, but for the sake of accuracy in information, I must:
When Al raps that he has “… pens in my pocket I must protect ’em”, he implies that a pocket protector is meant to protect pens, which is incorrect; it is to protect shirt pockets from ink stains.
The scene with him playing Minesweeper (a game included with the Microsoft Windows operating system dating back to version 3.1) is actually being played on a Macintosh. The logged in user is listed as “whitenerdy”. The reason that the Finder is the currently active application listed in the menu bar is because Minesweeper is running as a Dashboard widget.[14] He is shown as using a keyboard to play this normally mouse-controlled game.
How nerdy is it to blog on something so whiteandnerdy?
You know, the pens thing actually bothered me, too. I probably never would’ve admitted it unprompted, tho. 😉
Artistic license or sump’em. It’s almost too much to point it out, but that’s what the Wikipedia is for I suppose. Here’s another point from the article: “A spray paint marking that is seen on the side of a dumpster near the end of the video has been claimed to be a Lambda and could possibly be a reference to the video game Half-Life . . . or even the movie Revenge of the Nerds . . . Both claims are disputed as it only slightly resembles a lambda . . .”
ugh
Man, I thought I was pathetic…
🙂