Monthly Archives: September 2008

This is unix, I know this

For today’s dumb internet quiz of the day…..
I could survive for 1 minute, 13 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

Recent readings…

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku

My review

rating: 4 of 5 starsI became interested in the book after hearing an interview with the author on Slice of SciFi. Its an easy read and goes into [...]

She’s gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.

Evo Terra tweeted the following:
“If you haven’t been bookmarked, retweeted and blogged, you might as well not have existed.” - Will be part of the next Found Things.
Which, for some reason inspired me to parody Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything:
I don’t want to blog anything, tweet anything, or podcast anything as a career. I don’t [...]

When geeks grown up and have families.

I saw this driving home the other day.

How Many of You?

The Trib today had a point to the website HowManyOfMe.com.  As far as internet diversions go, this was a good one.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are146 people with my name in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

HowManyOfMe.com

There are240 people with Sarah’s name in the U.S.A.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are3 people with Dinah’s name in the U.S.A.

Dinah’s the clear winner here. However, [...]

Good Samaritans?

I got off the train to find my Vue not starting. The car wasn’t turning over, it feels like a dead battery or something similar. I called Sarah and she loaded up the kids and headed to the train station to come and give me a jump. While I was waiting I [...]