February 26, 2009
I do not think I am the best person to be telling others how they ought to spend their time. (See post immediately prior to this one where I wrote somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 words about making fake MySpace profiles.) But no matter how poor I, personally, am at time management, I am glad now to be able to say that I have never so gloriously and unabashedly wasted my time by modifying my Nintendo controller so that it works with my Gameboy. WTF. Dude. Jackin’ it is more productive and less nerdy than this. And it’s probably healthier, although I can’t really back that up. But SERIOUSLY. I don’t know which is worse: That a techbro actually “modded” this shit together or that he saw the need to “mod” this shit together. Cuz on one hand, if you just do this sort of stuff to see if it can, in fact, be done, then whatever floats your boat, I guess. Somewhere, a hiring manager at Radioshack dreams of meeting you. But on the other hand, if you do this kind of shit because you simply cannot stomach the thought of playing “Mario Bros” on anything other than your “original Nintendo controller”— well then fine. Just please don’t be so fucking proud of this absurd level of tool-ery. By flaunting this, you’re making Phish concert tape collectors look cool by comparison. Not a good thing.

I do not think I am the best person to be telling others how they ought to spend their time. (See post immediately prior to this one where I wrote somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 words about making fake MySpace profiles.)

But no matter how poor I, personally, am at time management, I am glad now to be able to say that I have never so gloriously and unabashedly wasted my time by modifying my Nintendo controller so that it works with my Gameboy.

WTF. Dude. Jackin’ it is more productive and less nerdy than this. And it’s probably healthier, although I can’t really back that up.

But SERIOUSLY. I don’t know which is worse: That a techbro actually “modded” this shit together or that he saw the need to “mod” this shit together. Cuz on one hand, if you just do this sort of stuff to see if it can, in fact, be done, then whatever floats your boat, I guess. Somewhere, a hiring manager at Radioshack dreams of meeting you.

But on the other hand, if you do this kind of shit because you simply cannot stomach the thought of playing “Mario Bros” on anything other than your “original Nintendo controller”— well then fine. Just please don’t be so fucking proud of this absurd level of tool-ery. By flaunting this, you’re making Phish concert tape collectors look cool by comparison. Not a good thing.

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