Nick showed me something yesterday

Nick showed me something yesterday that’s sort of put me in a “career goals” tailspin. Yes, more than I was already in.
Rich said I should be a sportswriter. That would be awesome. A baseball writer. Or, I should get a job in the marketing department for a baseball team. Or, I should be a travel writer. There are so many awesome jobs I would love to do, that I’m totally not qualified for with an engineering degree!
Sigh.
So following the endless blog chain (you know, my friend’s blog links to their friend’s blog which links to their friend’s blog), I came across this very funny summary of the movie Troy. Don’t read it if you don’t want to know the entire story, but then again, since it’s all based on The Iliad anyway, hopefully you already know the story. In any case, it’s funny. See:
PARIS: Hey, bro! Look what I have on board ship!
HECTOR: Is it a picnic lunch? Dear God! That’s not a picnic lunch! Take it back! Also fetch a picnic lunch.
PARIS: I will go back with her and be killed!
HECTOR: Because there’s no way my father would declare war on Menelaus for killing his son. I can’t let you do that, RETARD.
PARIS: *looks pretty. and yet stupid. and yet, pretty.*
HECTOR: I’ll take you two back to my dad. We can imprison you and send her back, and Troy will be saved.
PRIAM: Sons! And my new daughter!
HECTOR: Being retarded clearly runs in the family. Damn it.
And:
PARIS AND MENELAUS: *fightfightfight*
PARIS: *snivels and clings to Hector’s feet* But I’m too preeeetty and retarded to die!
ALL THE TROJANS: Oh my Zeus, this is so embarrassing we think we might die.
PRIAM: His mother said we should send him to a special needs school. But I thought if we just sent him to an English boarding school, which is where he got the accent, he’d be fine!
HELEN: *facepalm*
ANDROMACHE: Ahahahahaha my husband rules and your lover drools. Ahahahahahahahaha!
HECTOR: Let go, Paris! Please! You’re embarrassing us all? Come on, dude, you’re getting snot on my sandal.
PARIS: Wah!
MENELAUS: You left me for this?
EVERYONE: Dude, it wasn’t his sword she was interested in. It was like, his bow. He’s really good with a bow.
So yeah. I love the Internet. What did we do before it existed? What did we do before cell phones existed? And (what the hell) ICQ? I’ve realized that I am firmly anti-technology only until I decide to get a piece of the previously despised technology. Then I love it.