I keep a list of blog ideas so that on days when i have no idea or inspiration i can just open up the list and pick something.
After doing the post on the victrola, i had researched quite a bit about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla and always meant to get around to doing another post on them. Specifically about what a dick Edison was and how brilliant Tesla was (although Tesla had a bunch of paranoid obsessions including a big antisemitic streak.)
So imagine my delight when the funniest dude on the internet, The Oatmeal, drew a new strip all about Tesla and to a degree spelled out some of the ways in which Edison was a douche.
Since i cannot top The Oatmeal, i’m going to do something i’ve never done before, i’m going to simply turn today’s post lock, stock and barrel over to The Oatmeal and simply reprint his post. Because i love The Oatmeal and him hating me would make me cry, let me be clear: From here on in this is The Oatmeal, who has won the internet through awesomeness and who can be found here.
Marz
May 19, 2012 at 9:40 pm
Tesla vs Edison T-shirt to proclaim your true geekiness:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/sciencemath/ea08/?srp=3
Dan
July 19, 2012 at 12:09 am
So basically, Edison is like Steve jobs and tesla is like Wozniak.
AJ
January 19, 2013 at 9:00 pm
Steve jobs is like Edison, Dennis Ritchie is like Tesla. GET IT RIGHT
gates
September 11, 2012 at 8:03 pm
Edison is more like Bill Gates or Nathan Myrhvold.
paulms
March 22, 2013 at 11:12 pm
Listen douchebags, i actually speak a degree of serbian/croatian so i understand what you asshats are saying. CUT IT OUT. This is not a forum where you numnuts can spew your hate speech at each other. I will delete all your genocidally hateful comments immediately and ban your sorry asses. I don’t care which side you’re on, you do a shame and disservice to all of your fellow countrymen who aren’t douchebags.
paulms
March 22, 2013 at 11:18 pm
That last comment may seem rather strange, but that’s because you’re not reading the 2 comments that got posted which got taken off. Unfortunately i also took off a commenter’s previous, non hateful comment because he couldn’t resist posting a follow up with absolutely unacceptable, hate filled rhetoric in response to another utter douchebag. And by douchebag, i mean flaming asshole. I have no tolerance for this crap.
Emil
March 29, 2013 at 1:45 am
E brate,eto kad govoris hrvatski ionako mi se neda pisat engleski…ovako,jbg malo smo se zanili,malo me brat srbin naljuti i dogodilo se sta se dogodilo…sve ok.ja sam samo htio da se zna ono sta san napisa u prvom komentaru o tesli koji si izbrisa,to je meni bilo bitno…volim vas svih :*