Just had to share a hilarious comic blog I just came across: SUPERUSELESS SUPERPOWERS. Here’s a sample that had me laughing so hard I cried:
Here’s the description:
SUPERUSELESS SUPERPOWER: In-flight flight
Being able to soar through the air still won’t save you from recycled oxygen and endless stories from complete strangers. Known as the "Cabin Sparrow," this so-called power lets you fly, but only within the confines of an airplane. At least you can leapfrog the beverage cart when explosive diarrhea strikes at 30,000 feet.
Maybe the power just appeals to me because I fly so much.
All the funny SS’s got me thinking about SUPERUSELESS IT SUPERPOWERS! How about
Nine-Track Magtape Vision
Able to read data of a 9-track magnetic tape with your own eyes — albeit at 1 bit per second!
Let me know what SUPERUSELESS IT SUPERPOWERS you’d like to have.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Frank Hood // Feb 2, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Nick,
I actually have a completely useless superpower. My wife claims I can with 100% reliability misidentify the sex of bad drivers. Whenever I curse a driver and identify their sex in my imprecation (well I’m generally not too harsh, but it frequently starts with “Lady,” or “Mister”) , I’m always wrong. My wife says she’s stumped on how to make money off this “talent.”
2 Tony Law // Feb 3, 2009 at 7:23 am
Hi Nick – I used to be able to read numeric data directly off 8-hole ASCII paper tape. It wasn’t useless at the time, but hey, life moves on!
More currently: is the ability to directly write HTML becoming superuseless?
3 Nick Gall // Feb 4, 2009 at 10:05 am
Frank, I have the exact opposite superuseless superpower: I can almost infallibly identify the gender, age, etc. of a “bad driver”, ie someone who’s in my way but doesn’t need to be. I can sometimes even guess the state they’re from.
I don’t think I was born with the power though. I think I’ve acquired it through 25+ years of driving in Boston.
4 Nick Gall // Feb 4, 2009 at 10:09 am
Tony,
Ah paper tape. You and I must be from the same generation. That was my input medium of choice in my early programming days. I cut my teeth on the DEC PDP 11 series. I think I still have some spools in the attic.
As for HTML, writing HTML will be useful as long as blog comment boxes force you to enter tags manually!
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