By nemo, on May 26th, 2010
So, May 25 huh? Geek Pride Day! Or… is it?
The wikipedia article on Geek Pride day lists a “manifesto” of sorts, or a “geek code”(see below) for Geek Pride Day…
…here it is:
Rights:
- The right to be even geekier.
- The right to not leave your house.
- The right to not like football or any other sport.
- The right to associate with other nerds.
- The right to have few friends (or none at all).
- The right to have as many geeky friends as you want.
- The right to be out of style.
- The right to be overweight and near-sighted.
- The right to show off your geekiness.
- The right to take over the world.
Responsibilities:
- Be a geek, no matter what.
- Try to be nerdier than anyone else.
- If there is a discussion about something geeky, you must give your opinion.
- To save and protect all geeky material.
- Do everything you can to show off geeky stuff as a “museum of geekiness.”
- Don’t be a generalized geek. You must specialize in something.
- Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else.
- Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related T-shirt, all the better.
- Don’t waste your time on anything not related to geekdom.
- Try to take over the world!
So, I have a problem with this. Not all of it, and mostly the ‘responsibilities’ section…
But I get ahead of myself. Here is where I disagree with the rights…
Continue reading What is wrong with the Geek Pride Manifesto
By nemo, on March 3rd, 2010
So once again, my quarterly report on the temperature range outside my rack at knee level, and inside my rack at shoulder level – above two machines. Continue reading as hot as… summer of ’10
By nemo, on February 15th, 2010
Now this, I am sure you will agree, is a damn cool presentation of some excellent ideas.
http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html
If you haven’t seen it, then do so now.
If you have, proceed… Continue reading augmented thinking
By nemo, on December 1st, 2009
Previously I posted winter temperature ranges in the ThorxBlog post: as hot as…
Here are the spring results
So in 3 months of spring, the ‘indoor’ (outside the rack) temperatures: 14.4 – 33.8C
And the “outdoor” (inside the rack) for the same winter season: 22.6 – 45C
So in short – not too different . . . → Read More: as hot as, end of spring edition
By nemo, on October 31st, 2009
I was recently talking with a friend about commandline prompt gadgetry, and our tangent conversations drifted to 256colour support in X terminal emulators. xterm. gnome-terminal, and presumably kterm and others also, though only the first two have I looked at.
256 colour support is there. It’s in the code. It works. It’s nice. And it’s… not only not enabled by default, there is no clear and simple way of enabling it even if you WANTED TO.
I was going to blog more about this, but the following IRC fragment I think says it all. Any questions?
Continue reading Linux UI: crippling itself?
By nemo, on September 14th, 2009
I have recently been working on an updated version of a small scrabble sheet I made a few weeks ago for some friends.
version1 (as I have since backnamed it) was simply all the 3 letter words in the scrabble dictionary, handily laid out alphabetically on both sides of an A4 page.
In the weeks since I’ve started using it, I’ve found it to be a useful reference, and heard feedback along the same lines.
For version2, I have added in all the 2letter words as well, plus a limited selection of 4 letter words. (those able to score 12 or more points with natural (non blank) tiles and no specials. Continue reading Scrabble Sheet 2
