heh. Feel free. I come up with Weird-Al-style parodies without even thinking about it. I do it all the time with the right inspiration. If you ever want the complete lyrics about a popular topic to the tune of a popular song, just ask. :)
Sometimes, it's hard to be a sysop;
giving all your late nights to just one LAN;
You'll have bad pings;
And it'll have downtime;
Doing things that just aren't in the plan...
But if you really need this job you'll do it;
Even though, it's hard to comprehend;
And if you're up to it;
Oh keep on getting through it;
Cuz after all, it's under your command!
Stand by your LAN;
Give it the fiber to spin through;
And all the A/C will help too;
When the server room's too warm.
Stand by your LAN;
And connect the world right to it;
Keep downloading all the pr0n you caaaa-an....
Stand ... by ... your... LAN!
{Original, insipired by the comment just above... a bit rushed, but it scans.}
I know it, just reminding myself. Oh, I'm listening now. Got a real inspiration. By daytime, the guy is doing boring code-monkey coding, but he longs to be free to code Perl for the next web 2.0 winner... Oooh oooh. this'll take time to write the whole song though.
I think Mr.Laporte was framed. Since we have found out that Mr. Laporte has a clone of himself, and this was the evil clone who was making the iPhone make that annoying noise in his office yesterday. Plus the real Leo Laporte is getting a new toupee. (Old TSS joke)
...and we were singing:
Bye-bye TWiT (dot) TV good-bye.
Mr.Leo broke his server, lost his files on CacheFly.
And good o'l TWiTs were clicking into the night, saying
"This new homepage seems a bit white.
This new homepage is way too bright".
53 comments so far
You killed TWiT! You bastard!!!!
2 years, 4 months ago by woefullyinadequate
But at least the favicon is still there.
2 years, 4 months ago by woefullyinadequate
Ouch!
2 years, 4 months ago by Offissa
god damn it
2 years, 4 months ago by Chemist
Don't you just love it when that happens. So much for the day off, lol
2 years, 4 months ago by franklinhares
come on!! give poor Leo a break.. it was an accident...twitslaughter!
2 years, 4 months ago by Marialita
o/~ I shot the server... but I did not shoot the backup tree... o/~
2 years, 4 months ago by merlyn
Loads really fast too!
2 years, 4 months ago by merlyn
white is the new black
2 years, 4 months ago by pfig
Who needs content when you have such a relaxing color scheme?
2 years, 4 months ago by hloakes
Wow, I like this look. Although it doesn't really work..it still looks great! Still better than G4's website.
2 years, 4 months ago by ZayneHumphrey
where's the valid null0 sticker when you need it?
2 years, 4 months ago by pfig
Cool lyrics Randall! Can I use 'em for a song? :)
2 years, 4 months ago by fabsh
heh. Feel free. I come up with Weird-Al-style parodies without even thinking about it. I do it all the time with the right inspiration. If you ever want the complete lyrics about a popular topic to the tune of a popular song, just ask. :)
2 years, 4 months ago by merlyn
Cool. I'll probably take you up on that one... :)
2 years, 4 months ago by fabsh
I liked Randall's lyrics too... They sounded kinda familiar too...
2 years, 4 months ago by KevanV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IShotthe_Sheriff
2 years, 4 months ago by merlyn
I just ran Tidy on twit.tv
Apparently the HTML element is missing, but required. and the site content appears to looks like HTML 3.2
But apart from that... there are no errors :)
2 years, 4 months ago by KevanV
Thanks Randall but I was trying NOT to sing the real version ;)
2 years, 4 months ago by KevanV
We could have a whole routine of playing rock'n'roll and country songs with programming lyrics... I think there's definitely a market there... :D
2 years, 4 months ago by fabsh
techno-filk. it's been/being done.
2 years, 4 months ago by merlyn
Is it? Sounds cool. The Bedlam Bards of Perl...
2 years, 4 months ago by fabsh
This time around its Leo Fault.
2 years, 4 months ago by siouxmoux
You're having my baby?? Diana??... Paul Anka kill TWIT?!..Confused..disturbed...>=)
2 years, 4 months ago by Marialita
I think i finally understand why he said he wanted to be your manager... DOWN LEO DOWN.
2 years, 4 months ago by danhendricks
Haha... He made Leo and offer he shouldn't have refused...
2 years, 4 months ago by fabsh
all together... "Stand by your Lan..."
2 years, 4 months ago by dzakstar
I'm suspecting that this will be the most commented on Jaiku update ever.
2 years, 4 months ago by ZayneHumphrey
Nahh... Even Leo can't top the Feeble Force thread. Even if he very feebly kills his site...
2 years, 4 months ago by fabsh
@Randall: Awesome, just awesome... What a mind you must have! :)
2 years, 4 months ago by fabsh
Sometimes, it's hard to be a sysop; giving all your late nights to just one LAN; You'll have bad pings; And it'll have downtime; Doing things that just aren't in the plan...
But if you really need this job you'll do it; Even though, it's hard to comprehend; And if you're up to it; Oh keep on getting through it; Cuz after all, it's under your command!
Stand by your LAN; Give it the fiber to spin through; And all the A/C will help too; When the server room's too warm.
Stand by your LAN; And connect the world right to it; Keep downloading all the pr0n you caaaa-an....
Stand ... by ... your... LAN!
{Original, insipired by the comment just above... a bit rushed, but it scans.}
2 years, 4 months ago by merlyn
(Reposted, because I realized the soft returns didn't save.)
2 years, 4 months ago by merlyn
Just trying to demonstrate what I said earlier... I can take a melody and topic and compose parodies nearly instantly.
2 years, 4 months ago by merlyn
Next: Born to Run (Perl Code Version) brought to you by Randal :D
2 years, 4 months ago by fabsh
bra-vo... very, very good :)
2 years, 4 months ago by dzakstar
Found lyrics to "born to run", now looking for an mp3 so I can remember how the tune goes...
2 years, 4 months ago by merlyn
Here you go, multiple versions: http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/BornToRun.html
Shame on you for not knowing the tune, though. ;)
2 years, 4 months ago by fabsh
I know it, just reminding myself. Oh, I'm listening now. Got a real inspiration. By daytime, the guy is doing boring code-monkey coding, but he longs to be free to code Perl for the next web 2.0 winner... Oooh oooh. this'll take time to write the whole song though.
2 years, 4 months ago by merlyn
if you would change the simple but wonderful design from white to black, we could save some power on our MacBook (Pro)'s :-)
2 years, 4 months ago by meckimac
You are truely amazing!
BTW: Just realized I was misspelling your name. Sorry. :)
2 years, 4 months ago by fabsh
making software to make music to drink beer to
2 years, 4 months ago by pfig
I think Mr.Laporte was framed. Since we have found out that Mr. Laporte has a clone of himself, and this was the evil clone who was making the iPhone make that annoying noise in his office yesterday. Plus the real Leo Laporte is getting a new toupee. (Old TSS joke)
2 years, 4 months ago by ZayneHumphrey
Still dead?
2 years, 4 months ago by CookieDuster
Now "that" is a modern, minimalist, UI design!
2 years, 4 months ago by MotivatedTurnip
TWiT.tv/poll and TWiT.tv/user still work
2 years, 4 months ago by sunkenplanet
Ok all all the forward URL's (eg. http://www.twit.tv/TWIT) work... so it's seemingly just an issue with the starting URL.
2 years, 4 months ago by sascha
I tried going to an individual webcast episode and it was all white. The individual start pages seem to load fine.
2 years, 4 months ago by hloakes
@Randal: I'm off to bed, keep working on that song. I'm very much looking forward to it. :D
2 years, 4 months ago by fabsh
Heh. I was wondering about that. Quick! Someone use a Phoenix Down on TWiT!
2 years, 4 months ago by Dyscord
...and we were singing:
Bye-bye TWiT (dot) TV good-bye. Mr.Leo broke his server, lost his files on CacheFly. And good o'l TWiTs were clicking into the night, saying "This new homepage seems a bit white. This new homepage is way too bright".
2 years, 4 months ago by Paulywood
yep, still dead
2 years, 4 months ago by dann
I'm sure Leo's working hard on it... I'm guessing from what we can see it's a PHP Error or issue with the rewrite rules on Drupal.
2 years, 4 months ago by sascha
Great Leo!!!... get into the twit site by going to one of the podcast pages such as http://twit.tv/sn.
2 years, 4 months ago by karlos