Posts Tagged ‘geeks’

Aside: Cthulhu trumps Crom

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Speaking of a geek hierarchy…

Sunday Night Gallimaufry

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

You know the drill, this is the miscellaneous tab closing ceremony. Since I’m tired of politics today, there will be none in this list.

I have had several discussions about this recent article on a particular form of elective surgery. All that I can conclude from these discussions is that I have different aesthetic than many [...]

Well, this should solve a few problems.

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

The KGB Raffle winners are up.
It appears I have won a wormhole.

Could this, combined with my recently acquired Mad Scientist goggles, be the beginning of my career as a supervillain?
Or, alternately, the beginning of a mildly comic adventure through time and space?

Geek Family

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Apparently my daughter is now old enough that when I’m away on business we send each other emails1.
In order to illustrate for some people at my office why it was that I no longer was interested in my business travel being any more than the bare functional minimum, I showed them today’s missive:
When you come [...]

Explanation

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

I spent some time last week at a professional conference. For the most part it was a relatively valuable use of my time, but there were significant portions of time where I was stuck sitting in a room with lots of people while a particularly boring speaker was presenting. I was without a computer–the conference [...]

A Small Challenge

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Answer, and explanatory story, to follow.

On the off chance that someone comments with the plaintext before I get around to telling the story, I will send them a $20 Amazon gift certificate or something like that.

Confounding the nerd/Asperger’s stereotype

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

I’ve seen results from the Asperger’s quiz posted by lots of people I know, and I just want to point out something about these results. I know “me and my friends” is the essence of an anecdotal sample, and not a useful one, but still…
The stereotype is that people who are particularly apt at programming [...]