Since a lot of people have gone to see Jame’s Cameron’s record-breaking blockbuster, Avatar in 3D we were bound to get the following questions from our geek bretheren:

Will the 3D glasses the movie theaters give you when you go to see Avatar in 3D work at home?

Sorry, but no.

Will the glasses work when they release Avatar in 3D on DVD?

Nope.

But I kept the glasses instead of putting them in the recycle bin so I could see Avatar in 3D when I burn a copy from Netflix like I do all my DVDs! I’ll see it in 3D right?

A. Nyet.
B. Thanks for not recycling, dipwad.
C. The 3D glasses won’t work at home whether you own or illegally pirate DVDs. In other words, the glasses won’t work whether you’re moral or a scum-sucking weasel who’d sell his sister for an ice-cream cone, Mr. Burn N Return.

Now the reason the RealD 3D glasses that work at the movies don’t work at home is because your TV and monitor cannot project two different images at the same time and even if they could they cannot create a left and right image of different light polarizations which is required so the 3d glasses can work to create that amazing 3d image in your wittle geek head like they do when you saw Avatar in 3D at the movies.

For a longer-winded explanation please try this Answers.com post that tells the why of it all in greater detail. If you dare.

So did you see Avatar? In 2D or 3D? Did you keep the glasses thinking they’d work? How do you feel that when Avatar is no longer in the movies you’ll never see it in immersive 3D ever again?

Ok, so I’m 2 whole weeks into this self-imposed Julie/Julia comp/tech blog posting challenge, I’m technically 5 under par and I just can’t help wondering what the hell was I thinking?!

I have 50 weeks to go to come up with an additional 356 useful informative or entertaining posts about computers or technology without doing like so many others out there and just phoning it in and mass copying links like crazy. All. By. Myself.

For what? A better job? Money? Glory? Respect from my peers? 15 Minutes of Fame™?

HELL NO!

I’m in it for the babes. Chicks. Ladies. Women. The hot women that think hey, I need a not too bad-looking, doesn’t smell much, his halitosis is almost bearable, knows how to fix my computer geek of a man.

The rest of you are on your damned freaking own.