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I just <3 The IT Crowd. Plenty of cur­rent themes are spread on tshirts, posters, toys and stick­ers through­out the series.

Series 3, Epis­ode 6 has a LOLCAT on Jen’s office door: (yes, that is an 8-bit Ernie and Bert T-shirt)

And here is the original:

more anim­als

http://robburke.net/images/deeplol.html

This is why Sil­ver­light and Deep­Zoom where inventorated

Thanks, Berno, for the LOLCAT macro text. Just love it!

Don’t know if stuff is broken. Installed 10 minutes after ship­ment. Just unzip, drag and drop. FTP. Upgrade. Done.

My par­ents sent me the above photo. This was taken circa 1984.

The cat is a tabby/white ches­ted cat we called Bindy. Way before the Irwins used that name. And the Mac 128K’s name was Bonny. Yes, the boxes of disks to the right of the photo are geni­une Apple 3.5″ disks — each disk being worth about AU$7.00 at the time.

Cats, Com­puters — a com­bin­a­tion that lives through the ages.

Aaron Rutkoff decon­structs LOLCats to the point of it being unfunny.

Dis­claimer: this is just for LOLZ.

1. For fur­ther ref­er­ence on LOLCATS: I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER 
2. ps: U CAN HAS TSHIRT AT store.lolcode.com
3. To decon­struct and see the his­tory of LOLCATS: Anil Dash
4. The obvi­ous wiki­pe­dia entry for LOLCATS
5. LOLCATS takes the memes of the inter­net, stand­ard­izes them with funny pic­tures of cats. As LOLCATS is main­stream (ref: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21988724–2,00.html and ref: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/4862013.html) Oh Noes!
6. LOLCODE: tak­ing the lan­guage: syn­tax, gram­mar, vocab­u­lary — but more import­antly the memes of LOLCATS into an eso­teric pro­gram­ming lan­guage Other eso­teric pro­gram­ming lan­guages include Var’aq, INTERCAL, and Omgrofl
7. Mitch Denny the­ory: we’ll com­mu­nic­ate in shortened phrases and memes as com­mon under­stand­ings. eg: Star Trek:TNG epis­ode: Dar­mok. Note Mitch Denny is Star Wars, not Star Trek — so this ref­er­ence may be lost on Mitch.
8. Examples:
   Stage 1: http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2025
   Stage 2: LOLCODE HAS LULZ http://forum.lolcode.com/viewtopic.php?id=304
   Stage 3: Seems that the lan­guage dir­ec­tion is dynamic, more like Javas­cript than C# 2.0 (eg: BUKKITS as arrays and slots; like )
9. LOLCODE.net : com­piles down to IL. Really big thanks to Joel Pobar for his expert com­ments and advice for all on LOLCODE.Net
10. LOLCODE Spe­cific­a­tion is presently at 1.2 with lively dis­cus­sion in the for­ums on lol­code. And an example of the com­munity cre­at­ing a language.
11. U CAN HAS LOLCODE?

TechEd, from a newcomer’s per­spect­ive, needs more cow­bell. http://twitter.com/atl intro­duced us all to the world’s new­est pro­gram­ming lan­guage in May.

Based on a demo­cratic yet tech­no­lo­gic­ally flawed vote on http://nickhodge.com/ pop­u­lar opin­ion is that LOLCODE should be presented.

There­fore, Chuck has let me sub­vert the hier­archy and made a slot for me to present the following:

Thursday 9^th August

12:45pm-1:15pm   NIck Hodge: LOLCODE. CAN HAS NEW .NET LANGUAGE. LOLCODE IZ IN UR TECHED. C U THERE. KTHXBAI

Just the thing to start the day, and shake off any resid­ual hangover.

Not sure what I’ll get to cover in a mere 30 minutes. Maybe LOLCODE will get into the key­note for 2008?

Buy the t-shirt at http://store.lolcode.com/

As the LOLCATS meme goes TechEd; here one of my submissions:

Now, in the interest of learn­ing new pro­gram­ming lan­guages: I pur­chased a LOLCODE.com T-shirt. What was inter­est­ing was the non-geeks look­ing at me strangely. People already think I am “out there”, and the LOLCODE t-shirt just proves it.

Before you start dis’in my new lan­guage of choice, there is a Visual Stu­dio 2005 with syn­tax high­light­ing and Intel­li­s­ense and a .Net ver­sion on the way.

So, my ques­tion to the developer com­munity: do we need a spe­cial BOF LOLCODE ses­sion at TechEd 2007?