Office Space
Posted: 10/22/2003, 1:33 pm
I made this thread for two reasons.
1. It is arguably one of the greatest movies EVER.
2. I have a little story about it from today...
Here's my story.
We were in philosophy class, and my teacher was talking about the computer Deep Blue (which, we all know, beat Gary Kasparov, the world chess champion, in a regulation tournament). He was saying that it was roughly the size of a U-Haul truck. So, he proceeded to draw a U-Haul truck on the board (
). He then drew this big star shaped thing near the back of it, and said "You know how all those U-Haul trucks now have this uh ... flair at the back?" And I immediately said "Haha. You have 15 pieces of flair. That's the minimum." Mr Lalonde turned to me and yelled "THANK YOU! ... Everyone, if you haven't, go out and rent Office Space as soon as possible."
Then, later on, we were talking about AI and how it may one day take over (man, I was loaded for this conversation) and someone said something about how a stapler that automatically stapled would never be programed to staple people to hurt them. So Mr Lalonde picked up a stapler and started hiting himself with it and screaming "Ahh! Attack of the staplers!" as the laughter died down and he set down the stapler, I of course said "I... I believe you have my stapler..."
Good times...
1. It is arguably one of the greatest movies EVER.
2. I have a little story about it from today...
Here's my story.
We were in philosophy class, and my teacher was talking about the computer Deep Blue (which, we all know, beat Gary Kasparov, the world chess champion, in a regulation tournament). He was saying that it was roughly the size of a U-Haul truck. So, he proceeded to draw a U-Haul truck on the board (

Then, later on, we were talking about AI and how it may one day take over (man, I was loaded for this conversation) and someone said something about how a stapler that automatically stapled would never be programed to staple people to hurt them. So Mr Lalonde picked up a stapler and started hiting himself with it and screaming "Ahh! Attack of the staplers!" as the laughter died down and he set down the stapler, I of course said "I... I believe you have my stapler..."
Good times...