Archive for 'Geek'
My New Toy
I haven’t had a new gadget in quite some time, mostly due to the fact that I’ve sworn them off as evil minions of Satan (and being on hold with gadget company tech support is much like Purgatory). Still - I’ve been secretly pining for a Mac for years, ever since I had a [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2007 under Geek, Personal.
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Tupper’s Self-Referential Formula
This is one of coolest and geekiest things I’ve ever seen. From Mathworld:
J. Tupper concocted the amazing formula
where |_x_| is the floor function and mod(b,m) is the mod function, which, when graphed over 0
Posted: January 19th, 2007 under Amusements, Geek, Interesting.
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Stephenson’s “Diamond Age” Being Made into Miniseries
One of my favorite books of all time is being made into a miniseries on SciFi. From BoingBoing:
Neal Stephenson’s Hugo-award winning masterpiece The Diamond Age is being made into a SciFi Channel miniseries. The Diamond Age tells the story of a group of neo-Victorians who’ve embraced strait-laced ethics and craftsmanship as a response to [...]
Posted: January 16th, 2007 under Geek, Interesting.
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Truly Awful Star Wars Collectables
These need to be seen to be believed. The Star Wars collectible versions of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Link
Posted: January 10th, 2007 under Amusements, Geek, Interesting, Stupidity.
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Comet McNaught
Just received this update from SpaceWeather.com:
Comet McNaught is plunging toward the sun and brightening dramatically. It is now visible to the unaided eye both at sunset and at dawn. Amateur photographers have found that they can take pictures of the comet using off-the-shelf digital cameras with exposure times less than a second. Estimated visual magnitude: [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2007 under Geek, Interesting.
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Messages to Spies Are Coded but Not Hidden
Good article about number stations in the Washington Post. I remember this first time I ever heard a number station - my family was on vacation in Warsaw, Poland back in 1976 and there was a shortwave radio in the hotel room. We were messing around and happened upon a strange voice reciting numbers. We [...]
Posted: January 3rd, 2007 under Geek, Interesting.
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The Programmer Hierarchy
So true.
Original link
Posted: January 1st, 2007 under Geek.
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The IT Crowd coming to NBC?
There’s a damn good chance that NBC will royally mess this up, but then again they did an excellent job adapting The Office.
From TV Squad:
Finally, the Channel 4 series The IT Crowd is being re-developed by writer and executive producers David Guarascio and Moses Port (Just Shoot Me, Mad About You); and Joe [...]
Posted: December 4th, 2006 under Geek.
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Weeeeeee!
Posted: October 25th, 2006 under Geek.
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No, I Can’t Fix Your Computer
Amen, brutha…
Beyond The Summit: No, I can’t fix your computer!
“Dude, my computer’s busted, can you fix it?”
“Hey, do you know why my computer won’t boot up?”
“I keep getting this error message, what’s the deal?”
Have you heard any or all of these before? Well I have, and if you have a job in computers or are [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2006 under Geek.
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