http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/ Engadget Comments for Switched On turns one: The Maven http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Oct 31st 2006 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Oct 31st 2006 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Oct 31st 2006 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/You make me wish that I could write like that...]]>Nov 2nd 2006 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Oct 31st 2006 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Sheer Genius]]>Oct 31st 2006 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Nov 19th 2007 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/
And... it's so true. *wipes tear*]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/
This has to be the most creative and funny thing I've read in years.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/
GENIUS.

My hat is off to you, sir.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Nothing I love more than torturing Best Buy tv salesmen.
Want to see a head asplode?
Ask them to explain the difference between the bobbing and weaving methods of deinterlacing.
/evil
//and I know it
///clap your hands]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/
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i did get the general gist of this though and it was great. i expect it would be even better if i could understand it all :D]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/
Made my day as well!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/
I started reading this out loud in my office so I could fully appreciate the meter and rhyme.

Judging by the stares of passersby, I guess I should have closed my door first.

]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/
Now, if only we could get James Earl Jones to recite this one too.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/
Robert Frost would be proud.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/
You may want to include a reference as to which poem is this a parody of. Sadly, not all have read poe's masterpiece, The Raven.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/I used to work at Electronics Boutique, and our store had a herd of mavens that came in regularly to brag about their super-cool Pentium computers when the rest of us lowly mortals still had 486's.
Good times.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 19th 2005 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 26th 2007 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 27th 2007 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/26/switched-on-turns-one-the-maven/Dec 26th 2007 9:36AM