Tuesday, February 19, 2008

"Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"

I made a startling finding, which I hope some of you will appreciate. Today, I was watching the classic movie, WarGames, as part of a 1-credit course I'm taking. Early on in the movie, after inadvertently stumbling into WOPR (NORAD's mainframe), Matthew Broderick's character consults a group of hacker friends to figure out what he's discovered. One of his friends had a voice that I placed right away: it was Mandark from Dexter's Laboratory, aka this guy. And he looks and acts exactly like the nerd-stereotype that Mandark embodies... except without the intent to take over the world. How crazy is that?

Other than that unlikely connection, I have a lot of other matters on my mind, but they're still in a state of flux, so I'll postpone talking about those for now. In the meantime, I hope that the connection between WarGames and Dexter's Laboratory is news to someone else who reads this and blows your mind as much as it blew mine.

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