This post was written by John Martz on January 23rd, 2008.
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This post was written by John Martz on January 23rd, 2008.
Posted images are the property and copyright of their respective creators and/or owners.
Most of those are pretty damn good, but he’s clearly not technical. He’s just a web developer. “Geek”? Yeah, whatever.
I think the ammount of useless knowledge it takes ti get these is, in fact, pretty geeky. This magritte “pipe” image, for instance. Without a basic knowledge of HTML and at least a little bit of art education, you just won’t get it.
I felt real smart when I got the pipe joke, but I don’t get a lot of these. There’s some other stuff I kind of get, like the smiley face thing, and the lol cats mona lisa, but many of them—-I’m at a loss. They’re pretty geektastic. More HTML references, some videogame stuff, a Second Life joke. Some of it’s pretty clever, some of it is beyond me.
Not really “that” funny. Even if I consider myself geeky.
A geekier take on “The Treachery of Images” can be found on the cover of Craig Larman’s “Applying UML and Patterns”:
http://www.amazon.com/Applying-UML-Patterns-Introduction-Object-Oriented/dp/0131489062/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201194557&sr=8-4
For me, it’s like reading a sign in a foreign language when on holiday; I know something valuable is being communicated, I just don’t know what it is. I get a similar feeling when looking at some art, so I guess these could be art, then again, perhaps not.