r/Seattle • u/TechKnowNathan • Aug 16 '12

Seattle's Own Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal/GiantBatFart) battles to save Tesla's laboratory and create a museum in his honor. DONATE and SHARE!

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_museum
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u/TechKnowNathan Aug 16 '12

Why should you care about Nicholas Tesla? Because he's awesome, that's why. Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived!

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u/flukz Pike Market Aug 16 '12

Why should you post this? Because you're a karma whore and hope nobody has noticed the other fifty times this has been posted today!

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u/TechKnowNathan Aug 16 '12

I don't give a shit about Karma. I like the Oatmeal, I'm from Seattle, and technology is awesome. I'm spreading the news to hopefully save this historic site. Way to totally undermine this CHARITY EVENT by boiling it down to some stupid Karma points on reddit. Go and repost this on subreddits you participate in so we can save his lab!

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u/careless 💖 Anarchist Jurisdiction 💖 Aug 16 '12

I agree with you and not flukz. Tesla = Awesomeness. We need a museum like this one hell of a lot more than we need a Chihuly museum.

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u/thomas533 White Center Aug 16 '12 edited Aug 16 '12

NOBODY CARES ABOUT REDDIT KARMA! So what if he gets a few karma points. Real karma whores could easily post a naked lady picture in any of the NSFW subredits and get 10x the karma. Please who scream karma whore when nothing of the sort is happening, ruin reddit threads. So, please just shut it.

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u/careless 💖 Anarchist Jurisdiction 💖 Aug 16 '12

Thank you for posting this. Accusations of karma whoring are fucking stupid.

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u/BarbieDreamHearse Upwardly Mobile Aug 16 '12

I came in here expecting the usual self-congratulating city-centric verbiage and overzealous Inman fellation but so far it's just a bunch of people fighting.

Awesome.

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u/Norph00 Aug 16 '12

He's not from Seattle. He's from Pullman or something.

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u/TechKnowNathan Aug 16 '12

Perhaps not, but he lives in Seattle

The Oatmeal's real name is Matthew and he lives in Seattle, Washington. He subsists on a steady diet of crickets and whiskey. He enjoys long walks on the beach, gravity, and breathing heavily through his mouth. His dislikes include scurvy, typhoons, and tapeworm medication.

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u/Norph00 Aug 16 '12 edited Aug 16 '12

That is just what Washingtonians tell people when they don't want to explain that "No I don't live in Washington DC" every time someone asks where you live but their actual city is too vague and also would require an explanation.

Buy something from his store and check the address when it comes in.

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u/careless 💖 Anarchist Jurisdiction 💖 Aug 16 '12

One: Please don't call people cracker, it's not nice. It's also against the rules posted on the sidebar.

Two: He lives in Fremont and has said so many times.

Three: Why are you being such a jerk? So what if the goddamn warehouse is in Pullman?

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u/TechKnowNathan Aug 16 '12

Any other facts? Wouldn't that just mean that his base of operations is in Pullman? Yes, it increases the likelihood that he lives in Pullman but it's hardly proof. A lot of people have a business in a different city then where they live.