I saw this driving home the other day.
Category Archives: Geek
All things geek
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.
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Dinah’s the clear winner here. However, I was suprised to learn that there are 10,677 people in the U.S. with the first name Dinah. The last name is what makes her stand out.
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I was really shocked that Evan clocked in so low.
Truth in comics
I love xkcd and its geeky geeky ways. It often captures things I’ve lived and/or seen. Today’s is one I have lived and seen lived.
This reminds me of a post on usenet my friend Anne made in 1998. To quote:
So I am left not bitter just tired of this whole meeting people, emotional ties, finding a compatible person and then having them yank away.
It is just an emptiness right now.
From what I have observed from my male friends, though, this is exactly the climate required to learn Linux. Without a full and happy lovelife or distraction of soft lips and a reason to kiss them, there is enough room to grasp the intricacies and nuances of such a fine operating system.
It has already begun to happen. As I walk down the street I am not thinking of emptiness, kising, nathan or any other previous SO’s, I am thinking of penguins, rm -rf / and lilo.
I am already convinved that linux will dull the pain better than heroin.
I still loves me some linux hardcore, though.
WordPress for iPhone
I noticed that the WordPress for iPhone native blogging app appeared in the iTunes store last night. This is me giving it a try.
I don’t think i’ll bang out long posts this way, but you might see lots of smallish stuff since it’ll be so easy to add. Especially some on the fly photo blogging. Heck, it might replace my use of Twitter for some thoughts. Especially those thoughts over 140 characters.
As and added bonus, here’s Vik’s cat, Inky.
[non iPhone Update: Looks like Declan had the same idea on his blog.]
Wow, I found the end of the internet
I just did a web search for the exact phrases “severe awesomeness watch” and “severe awesomeness warning.” In each case, google did not have a match for the quoted phrase.
I hearby claim those are my catch phrases! Until I come up with something else new and lame.
MORTAL KOMBAT!!! vs. DC?
Thanks to Comic Book Resources, I just learned of the in-development game of Mortal Kombat vs. DC. I have watched the trailer and a few other videos. This is either going to be the best game ever (for a DC comics dorks like myself) or the worst thing created by man. There is no middle ground here.
Now you have two problems… again
Even though I use Twitter, I can appreciate mocking it.
With a tip of a hat to jwz, in response to reading Dr. Horrible’s twitter feed, Dave said
Some people, when they are having site availability problems, think, ‘I know, I’ll put up status on twitter!’Â Now they have two site availability problems.
And one should not forgot Skottie Young’s post from yesterday on twitter.
What is with me this week?
For the first time in about 11 years, I’m seriously considering using another nickname on IRC. I think we can actually blame twitter for this.
Sunday fun
- Shutdown
- <install new/replacement disk>
- fdisk
- mkswap
- umount /boot
- dd
- e2fsck && resize2fs
- mount -o remount,ro /
- dd
- e2fsck && resize2fs
- mount -o remount,rw /
- pvcreate
- vgextend
- pvmove (wait a long long long time for 174 GB, especially with disk read errors, to move)
- vgreduce
- shutdown
- remove old and busted, put new hotness in as primary disk
- boot into rescue disk
- mount / /usr
- grub-install /dev/hda1
- ms-sys -m /dev/hda
- vi /etc/fstab
- shutdown -r now
- Party like its 1999 or, if you like assembler better: Â GGB
Wingin’ It
While I was in AZ for work last week I once again got to stop by the Draco Vista studios. This time it was for a recording of Wingin’ It 3D. I had met Mike and Lorrie before, who are awesome people, but I also got to meet the awesomeness of Debbie, Eliza, Chris Kris, Scott Thomas, and Doug. Thanks to all of them for their hospitality.
One of the things I’ve always thought when listening to many of the Farpoint shows has been “I could hang out with these people.” What was nice about hanging out for WI3d was the realization that I was right. These are my kind of people. If I lived in the Phoenix area, I could see myself stopping by quiet often. (If they would have me, of course.)
It was a great time for me, hopefully the feeling was mutual. There was great beer (some of which I brought,) great food, and great people. I highly recommend it.
The show should be up today and tomorrow, I’ll link them when I have time.
[Update 4:14PM: Voicemail Show]
[Update 5/1 12PM: First, Regular Show #36. I realize I should have titled this post “Wingin’ It, they be bringing it.” But also, it was pointed out in the comments by Brian that I forgot to mention him and Tim and teh aw esome they bring as well. Not sure how the hell I did that. I blame alcohol. Also, I said Scott above when I meant Thomas and horked Kris’s name, those were just plain super-dumbness.]