Sure, most people completely overlook the necessary work in the background but background work is best when nobody thinks about it. Let’s just hope they have a boss who understands the task and knows a good hole when he sees it.
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So, after a late night conversation I did some brainstorming to get myself back into posting, and here it is.
Ten Signs You are Truly a Computer Geek
1. You regularly, unselfconsciously, and without a hint of intentional irony refer to your available time for projects as “Bandwidth.”
2. Same goes for referring to availability for thinking about a problem as “Processor Cycles.”
3. When you have trouble remembering something you complain about fragmentation and bad sectors.
4. There is a deep and unspoken need to have someone “Talk Nerdy” to you.
5. Your favorite jokes are best expressed in ascii
6. You have been seriously late for something that meant a lot to you because you “just couldn’t get that one piece of code to work right”
7. The cumulative time spent researching, trying, and shopping for your current set of computer peripherals is greater than that spent on your last car or home purchase.
8. You regularly bore your loved ones with news about price drops in cutting edge technology and comparisons to the price and function of the first item of that category you bought.
9. There is ancient technology laying around not because you don’t want to waste it by throwing it out, but because deep down in side you are still emotionally attached to it.
10. It’s not a nap, it’s a soft reboot.
There are several more “Ten Lists” available for your enjoyment.
Note: Thanks to my White and Nerdy friend Jack, I have changed the title from “Ten Sings” to “Ten Signs.”
Seen at the bottom of an email from a Yahoo user:
“When your life is on the goake your life with you. Try Windows Mobile today”
In the context, what do you think the word means?
Google evidence of this typo in the wild: here. Interesting that I see this page when I search through the church network, but nothing when I search from my home network. Life is like that when you live it on the goake.
While visiting some friends in another part of town last night I filled up with gas that cost nearly $0.20 less than what it costs where I live. I did a quick search on local gas prices and I found a station that I had never noticed before and I decided to check it out on Google maps Street View. That was when I noticed that for one frame, the car was between the pumps.
Now, unless the driver was wearing shorts with white socks pulled up really high, he/she is not visible in the picture. It does, however look like Google is issuing ghost cars.
As a reader of Engadget, Gizmodo, and other snarky style tech blogs I enjoyed the write-up from this article included in the August, 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions.
Motorboating in a Washtub
THE ancient and lowly washtub, long the symbol of feminine drudgery, recently proved its conservatism in England when efforts were made to modernize it by adding an outboard motor and converting it into a sea-going craft. The tub promptly rejected the idea and submerged.
Little Madeleine Waeldin trying out the idea of hooking an outboard motor to a washtub at an English beach resort. It didn’t work, however.
(via ModernMechanix)
Here is evidence that people can have really poor judgment even where it directly risks someone valuable to them. This is also why child endangerment laws exist. But, it reminds me of the saying; “A person is quick to fault their poor memory, but not to fault their own poor judgment.“
Visiting Microsoft.com right now will give you a very inspiring image.
I know that I am now inspired.
Dictionary.com Word of the Day: Afflatus
afflatus \uh-FLAY-tuhs\, noun:
A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration.
I’m going to have to remember that word and use it when someone asks about the Sunday service. Especially when someone asks me while I am standing in that tunnel-like egress area at the back.
While looking for some more comics to add to my personal comics page a few weeks ago I happened across this classic Peanuts cartoon.
A question for those who never went to Bible college: does this joke make sense to you?
Was there a time when the general public who read Peanuts would have understood it?
- You can see what Wikipedia has to say about Higher Criticism.
- Annotations to The Complete Peanuts: 1961 – 1962 (vol. 6) by Charles M. Schulz notes that it was published on January 24, 1961.
- The Gospel According to Peanuts By Robert L. Short (2000) refers to it.
So, I decided to watch the lunar eclipse on Wednesday night. I used my Casio Exilim EX-277, a 6in. tripod, and my car to take pictures. So, while I stood out in my driveway looking like an idiot for several hours I did get some pictures. The pictures aren’t great, but it was fun to watch (I rarely get a chance to watch lunar eclipses).
First Problem: Lots of clouds and light pollution. We do indeed have sodium lights around the neighborhood. This was taken with night settings at 9:30PM.
White balancing made it look a little better, but my camera does not have cloud balancing.
As the night went on it did clear up a bit. These pictures are of the moon coming out of the shadow around 11:30PM and the only thing I can blame the bad images on are the camera and my skills.
