Showing posts with label hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Giiks and nørds and fænbåis and støff

 Jeg har rydda i noen av papirene mine, og der fant jeg litt av hvert. Dette er et kåseri jeg skrev i andre kalsse på vgs. Det er mitt første kåseriforsøk, og dermed ikke spesielt godt, men jeg var nødt til å legge det ut det her. Da jeg leste igjenom det ble jeg så glad av, vel, hele greia. Så mye rart jeg fikk til å putte inn! Men til tross for den gode karakteren jeg fikk, er jeg usikker på hvor mye læreren skjønte...


Fanboys. Eller -girls. Disse bedrevitende krapylene som går rundt som vandrende leksikon over alt av kjedelige litterære greier. Ja, unnskyld bruken av ordet greier, det er ikke spesielt beskrivende. Men jeg vet ikke så mye om hva de inneholder, jeg er jo ikke fanboy på noen måte. Med alle de irriterende utspillene de kommer med, er jeg ganske sikker på at man må være irriterende selv for å ha den minste interesse av å lese de samme bøkene. Og jeg er jo ikke irriterende, så de er nok ikke noe for meg.

Jeg kjenner mange fanboys, og flertallet av dem er i min nærmeste vennekrets. Hvorfor de fremdeles er vennene mine, er jeg ikke helt sikker på. Jeg burde kanskje egentlig tatt dem opp til vurdering for framtiden. For det er ganske tungt å være i nærheten av noen som alltid skal komme med obskure henvisninger til ei eller anna bok, eller en film eller noe. Det er ikke alltid så lett å vite hva. Men det gjør det jo ikke mindre irriterende. For eksempel, hvis du stiller dem et enkelt spørsmål, som ”hvor mye er klokka?” kan de svare ”42”.

Dette er jo ikke spesielt opplysende, og heller forvirrende. ”Hva i all verden mener du med 42?” spør du. Da får du et rart blikk tilbake, og de sier ”det er Svaret”, noe som ikke gir noe mening i det hele tatt. ”Svaret på hva?” ”Spørsmålet ditt.” ”Jeg spurte om hvor mye klokka er, 42 fins jo ikke engang på klokka.” ”42 er Svaret på livet, universet og alt mulig, noe som også inkluderer det du spurte om.”

Etter dette er det bare å gi opp. Du får ikke noe bedre ut av dem, om du klarer å dra ut noe som helst. Og dersom du prøver, får du nok svar som ”mars skinner klart i natt”, eller ”et øyeblikk, jeg syntes jeg hørte en lyd.”

”Hvilken lyd?”

”En blå boks som kan ta meg med ut i tid og rom, og vekk fra uvitende folk som deg.”

Som sagt, veldig irriterende. Ikke forklarer de hvor de finner alle disse sære tingene heller, så du i alle fall kan ha en mulighet til å lese akkurat de bitene de stadig refererer til. Det er ikke gøy å være utelatt fra alle disse morsomme tingene. Ja, de må jo være morsomme, for hver eneste gang to pakker to Fanboys (eller –girls) EXTREME sammen i ett rom (eller en bygning, for den saks skyld), sier den ene noe du overhodet ikke forstår, og så bryter de begge ut i latter.

FANBOI 1: ”Hei, [FANBOI 2], sender du fisken?”

FANBOI 2: ”Nei, ikke ta fissssssssssssk!! Nei, Kossssteligsssssssste! Vi må ha fisssssken vår sjæl, å ja Kosteligsssste!”

DU: ”WTF?”

Forresten, jeg snakket ikke helt sant. Det er ikke alltid utbruddene virker morsomme. For noen ganger, når stemningen glad og lystig, sier en et par ord, og straks synker stemningen med en fart på i alle fall tre lysår, som de ville sagt, og alle blir gravalvorlige:

DU: ”Dette blir gøy! Og så må vi huske videospiller så jeg kan se favorittserien min igjen! Og varme klær, selv om det er juni. Bare sånn for sikkerhets skyld.”

FANBOI 1 (stille): ”Yes. Winter is coming.”

FANBOI 2, 3 og 4 (nikker alvorlig, og veksler sørgmodige blikk)

Du tør ikke engang å spørre hva ”winter is coming”, betyr, for de ser ut som om de hvert øyeblikk kan dra fram de usynlige sverdene de helt sikkert bærer rundt på, enten i belter rundt midjen eller i en eller annen finurlig sak på ryggen, og utfordre deg til duell – eller full kamp, en mot fire, hvis ikke du har andre fornuftige personer med deg som heller ikke forstår. Og om du har det, ti for Guds skyld stille, vil du ha krig her?

Det er nemlig krig det blir, om noen tør å tvile på at de pussige utspillene har en viktig mening. Jeg har prøvd. Da en av mine venner dro meg med tilbake for å hente noe ”viktig” hjemme, og vi ble forsinket til skolen på grunn av det, fant jeg ut at nok var nok. Jeg sa klart og tydelig i fra:

”Du kan da ikke mene at den ringen er så viktig at den er verdt å komme en halvtime for sent til svømminga for?”

Jeg fikk ikke noe svar tilbake. Bare et meget oppgitt og nokså sint sukk, før hun snudde ryggen til meg.

Hun snakket ikke til meg på to måneder. I denne perioden ble jeg i tillegg stadig angrepet av skøyerstreker. Noen stjal maten ut av sekken min, og satte igjen en hvit stein i stedet. En side ble revet ut av kladdeboka mi – akkurat den siden jeg hadde gjort mattelekse på. Noen dager senere lå den på pulten min, men full av merkelige symboler og masse farger. Det skjedde flere lignende plagsomme lurerier, men den verste var nok da læreren ba meg ta med bøker hjem til min venn som var syk, gikk jeg i skapet hennes for å hente dem – og ble angrepet av en musefelle. Det var vondt.

Da jeg et par dager etter hendelsen spurte henne om hvorfor hun ikke ville snakke til meg, pekte hun på meg og sa: ”Da'tsang!”

Det er gått noen år siden dette skjedde, og jeg har så vidt turt å spørre henne om det. Den eneste forklaringen hun kom opp med, var at det ville ikke være fair mot andre om hun ikke hadde på ringen, for da kunne de jo ikke vite at hun var Aies Sedai. Mer ville hun ikke si, og hun ville i alle fall ikke forklare hva da'tsang betyr.

Om du ikke visste nøyaktig hvor irriterende fanboys (eller –girls) er, skjønner du det nok nå. Men jeg er ikke fornøyd med å spre budskapet. Jeg vil ha hevn.

Så nå skriver jeg bok. Den vil være full av nerdete uttrykk fanboys spyr ut hele tiden. Så kommer reaksjonen du kan forvente, og, endelig, hva du kan svare tilbake. Nå er det bokormene og firkantøynene som skal få lov til å klø seg i hodet og lure på hva i all verden det var.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Dearest Internet, Where Art Thou? + Random Stuff and 42 Day

I’ve discovered that the internet connection in our house seems to fail every night for half an hour-ish, maybe a bit longer (such as a whole effin’ hour!!!). I’m not really supposed to be on the internet in the middle of the night, because I’m meant to be sleeping, obviously, but I am. On the internet, that is. There’s so much fun going on in this world wide web, I’m having trouble closing Safari (that’s my browser, if you were wondering), turning off my MacBook, read a chapter or two in a good book (you can see which book(s) I’m reading on this very page! Wohoo!), and go to bed. I always think of something else I need to check, or I just have to wait a little longer to see if there’s anything fun happening on Twitter or CoS Forums. (Addicted? Me? To the internet? Or Twitter? Or CoS Forums? NO WAY!! Not true!! Never happening!!!!!!! Especially not that about CoS!!)

Uhm, anyway, it’s quite annoying. Internet connection failing, I mean. I’m not always sure whether it will come back or not. But I’m sitting here, 3 o’clock in the morning, because I can wait just a little bit longer to see if it comes back. I have four tabs open in Safari (from left to right, twitter.com, www.facebook.com, www.vg.no and www.cosforums.com), and two in Opera (marenmorningstar.blogspot.com and www.neilgaiman.com), all of which I keep refreshing to see if the internet comes back and they finally load. That’s why I’m writing this post, really, because I’m bored waiting for the internet to come back and having the patience to wait just a little bit longer. Of course I won’t be posting this right away, because obviously the internet isn’t here (which is, as I said, the reason why I’m writing this), but I will when it comes back.

Of the six tabs I have open, I was only actually using Twitter. And I have another window open in Safari (http://www.youtube.com/charlie), but I’m not refreshing that one because I was going to start watching another video when internet disappeared, and if I refresh the page I won’t remember which one. Yeah, my memory is terrible. I know it. (Also, how I came over that particular YouTuber is explained in a way later in this post. It is Totally Awesome, the ‘how’-part. Also, most of the videos on that page are quite awesome too, and hilarious at times, but little can be as awesome as the ‘how’-part. Especially if it had been me.)

As you understand, I’m really really bored now, and because I don’t want to sleep I’m waiting for the internet connection to come back. All I can do is keep listening to Megalomania (I love that song, I’ve queued so much on Spotify I’ve been listening to it for the last hour or so (when I’ve not been watching videos on YouTube, obviously), and I intend to continue listening to it because I love it so much), keep refreshing those pages, and don’t lose the hope. Or panic.

Apropos panicking, did you know that Sunday is 42 Day? (If you’re such a hoopy frood you already know about 42, you can skip to the part starting with “Anyway, 42 Day.”)

If you’re wondering what’s so special about the number 42, I can tell you that it is the answer to THE Ultimate Question. 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe, and EVERYTHING.

What is the Ultimate Question, you ask? Well, no one is really sure. There are some theories going around about that. I’m in favour of the one saying that if we knew both the Ultimate Question AND the Ultimate Answer (42, that is), the Universe would stop existing. So obviously it’s just as well that we don’t know the Question as well as the Answer. If that theory is right, of course.

Some say 6x9 is 42. I can agree with that, too.

Anyway, 42 Day. It’s on Sunday. Sunday the 10th of October 2010. Even if you are a hoopy frood, you might wonder why exactly this day in particular is 42 Day. Well duh, because 101010 (10.10.10; or 10/10-10; or the 10th of the 10th month of the year (October) of the 10th year of the century/millennia (2010)), is 42 if you’re talking binary numbers, of course! If you don’t know much about binary numbers, I could show you why 1010102 (that little 2 means it’s a binary number) is 42, but I can’t be bothered right now, no matter how bored I am, and anyway, if you didn’t already know 1010102=42, you probably wouldn’t understand my confusing explanation. It’s very obvious to me, but of course I’ve learned it in school and I am also gifted with a brain that actually understands the logic that is Maths.

(At this point, I’m closing Opera, which is also a browser (I forgot to mention that earlier), because I can’t see how refreshing six pages instead of four makes the internet come back sooner. Also, it’s a bit inconvenient, switching between two windows rather than having everything in one.)

So the 10th of October is 42 Day, and I’m jumping up and down in excitement and anticipation. I’m a bit sad it’s on a Sunday, actually. If it’d been a normal weekday, I would have written 6x9=42 on the blackboard, and if it had been on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday I would’ve written it on the blackboard in the maths classroom, and the teacher would think I’m terrible at maths. I would also have brought my Towel to school and shown it proudly to the world, and maybe I would even have written 42 on my forehead. (Mirrored, of course, since I would be writing it looking in a mirror, and writing something mirrored while looking in a mirror so that it becomes right for people who are not looking at you in a mirror is pretty difficult.) Well, maybe not, since it would be quite hard to wash away (or rather, scrub away, which it would probably end up being, since I, in my stupidity, would probably write it with something saying ‘permanent’ on its case and meant for marking clothes. It’s not easy to get away from skin. Trust me, I’ve tried), but the thought is nice.

If 42 Day were on a Saturday, I would make a large sign saying ‘42, stick it on my back, and walked around in town as if it were normal to walk around in town with a large sign saying ‘42’ on your back. It should be normal on 42 Day, of course. I might also have written 42 on my forehead, but probably not, for the reasons already mentioned.

As it is, with 42 Day on a Sunday, I might be making 42 Day cakes (http://fortytwoday.com/42daycakes.html), I will be Twittering about it, I will be mentioning it on Facebook, and also on CoS Forums. And maybe I’ll write another blog post about it. (Think about that! If I do, it will be my second blog post in just a week! WOW!!!) I could also write 42 on my forehead, but as I’ve already mentioned (twice now, in a way, except that the last mention was just a lazy I’ve-already-said-this, just like this is), I have good reasons not to.

I will also say HAPPY 42 DAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and generally be mentioning 42 Day a lot to my cousin, eplemosen, and my other Twitter followers will probably get sick of it too. Too bad for them!

(I should probably, by now, have linked to my Twitter, but if you are reading this then you have likely followed a link to here from Twitter, so I can’t see the point. If you’re not from Twitter, you very likely found a link to my blog on CoS Forums. If that’s the case, and you’re interested in my Twitter, just Owl me. (I don’t bite, promise! Anyway, I don’t think you’ll taste good either, no offence.) And if you are one of my Twitter followers, I apologise in advance for pestering you about 42 Day. I’ve already started, with linking to this post!)

Also, I don’t know if you’ve seen this picture already (I’m [THIS IS SENSORED SINCE IT IS VERY PROBABLY NOT A FAMILY FRIENDLY WORD] jealous, can you imagine, both Neil Gaiman and the TARDIS??????!?), but there’s an explanation here, and did I mention I am jealous? Visiting the TARDIS (obviously just a prop for the TV series, not the real one, since the Doctor is using it to save the universe, and probably avoiding the filming crew and actors and directors and writers and fans and stuff because he doesn’t want us to know he really exists, because we’d probably bother him to death if we knew he was real), and meeting Neil Gaiman, one of my absolute favourite writers ever (he’ll never take Tolkien’s special writer-place in my heart, though) and also my favourite Twitter stalkee, is two of my biggest nerdiest super-geek dreams.

And WHAMM!! after more than an hour’s absence, the internet is back, so I guess I should stop writing this and start posting it.

Also, now the internet connection is working properly again, maybe I can go to sleep?