New Technology & Parenting – Slackers Inc.

There are perhaps a few people left out there who are not familiar with just why geeks find the phrase “All your base are belong to us” so funny. I will attempt to explain: In the 90’s video games were making their way into living rooms across north america, and as adolescents scrambled to get the latest games, the game producers around the world were happy to meet the increasing demand by pumping up their production schedules.

A major source for these games was Japan, and in the rush to translate the storylines for the english-speaking markets, some, um…quality assurance steps were missed. The result was games such as Zero Wing that had broken english phrases that would later become iconicized by now twenty-to-thirty-something geeks (including myself) that nostalgically remember the hours spent on these games.

Now that this same group is having babies of their own, what better way to commemorate the generational transition than something like this nerdy onesie? When I saw it, I seriously almost fell of my chair laughing… I think I may pre-purchase one for any future child of mine because it’s just too awesome to pass up.

Slackers Inc has been around since 1999 in various forms and has never really had a consistent, unifying theme.  For the early 2000’s it was a page to showcase a bunch of our lives and anything we thought was cool at the time.  The addition of a webcam to the mix made the site dynamic, a rare thing at the time.  Traffic picked up so much with just one webcam in our livingroom that we added a few more, and then a few more – Soon we had a half dozen in various places around the house including the kitchen, bedrooms, outside the house and even our tv feed (known as “watch what we’re watching”).  I’m quite sure we broke some sort of rebroadcasting rule there, assuming anyone was bored enough to watch.

Following this, the site languished for several years until it was converted into a photo showcase.  It seemed like a good idea at the time and was easy to maintain, so that’s what it stayed for several more years. 

Jump forward to the present and we have a blog for sharing the geeky and cool things we find.  We’ll see how updated this stays but I guarantee that it will directly correlate to how much effort is required.  We are afterall, slackers.