A 2008 Despair, Inc. Calendar - custom built for Geeks

Oh No! Not again! Not the depressing, omniscient 2008 Despair, Inc Calendar! Fear not mortal, this year’s calendar was custom built for Geeks and features dozens of geek related notes and some of your favorite Demotivators. It’s positively negative!Price: $15.99 Buy Here

Some sample dates of importance:

• August 4th, 1997 - Skynet goes online. After starting a nuclear war, sends Terminators into the past.
• May 22nd, 1973 - Ethernet invented. Thus begins the ascendancy of the geek.
• September 19th - Talk like a pirate day.
• March 10th, 2000 - The Dot Com Bubble bursts. ROFLCOPTER.
• July 9th, 1982 - Theatrical release of TRON. Always remember arcade culture. Always.
• July 5th, 1687 - Newton’s Principia is published. Math classes now more difficult with the introduction of this new fangled calculus stuff.
• November 16th, 1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto’s birthday. As a baby, he enjoys collecting coins.
• October 4th, 2004 - SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. Flying car still not invented.
• June 20th - It’s International Take Your Dog To Work Day. Mailmen rejoice.
• April 4th, 1984 - Winston Smith begins his diary.
• April 23rd - International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day -
• And dozens and dozens more!

Includes the following Demotivator designs:

• January - Customer Disservice Because we’re not satisfied until you’re not satisfied.
• February- Consulting. If you’re not a part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
• March - Give Up. At some point, hanging in there just makes you look like an even bigger loser.
• April - Discovery. A company that will go to the ends of the Earth for its people will find it can hire them for about 10% of the cost of Americans.
• May - Procrastination. Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.
• June - Consistency. It’s only a virtue if you’re not a screwup.
• July - Challenges. I expected times like this - but I never thought they’d be so bad, so long, and so frequent
• August - Idiocy. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
• September - Meetings. None of us is as dumb as all of us.
• October - Motivation. If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.
• November - Planning. Much work remains to be done before we can announce our total failure to make any progress.
• December - Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.