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The cremated remains of a man who died of a smoking-related illness have been placed in a hollowed-out computer by his family, who thought it would be a fitting memorial for the self-proclaimed nerd. No word on whether the computer urn is running Linux.

The deceased's brother hatched the unusual memorial after his brother, Alan, "left for that great data bank in the sky." He removed the hard drive and power supply from a classic SPARCstation computer from the 1990s and affixed it with a plaque bearing his brother's name and the dates of his birth and death.


And just when you think it couldn't get any nerdier, take a close look at the epitaph from "Star Trek": "Beam me up, Scotty, I'm done here." It's a phrase that Alan reportedly said shortly before passing away.

"The case worked quite well at his memorial party," the brother wrote in an email to the techie site Slashdot. "His friends and family were able to leave their final good-byes on post-it notes. Anyone who wanted to keep their words private could just slip their note into the case through the floppy slot."

Whenever a nerd dies, we here at Asylum like to pour one for our homeys: one 40-ounce bottle of Mountain Dew Halo Game Fuel, that is. R.I.P., Alan.

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