Category: Geeking Out
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New Blog: Geeking Out
I am officially a professional blogger! The blog is called Geeking Out, it’s for my local paper, I’m getting paid for it (barely), and I’ve added the RSS feed for it to this blog’s sidebar. : ) Keep an eye out for my upcoming nervous breakdown trying to keep up with all of this.
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How to Bring Down the Mood on LOLCats.com
Post this pic: LOLCat Mollie “i can has hugz?” Despite having one of her back legs amputated, skin grafts to her front paws, and one sadly amusing temper tantrum, she has made a full recovery and resumed her position as neighborhood bully. Mollie is a scrapper cat. This picture is definately too sad for the…
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Daylight Savings Time Software Glitches
My cell phone has been waking me up an hour early all week because it thinks that Daylight Savings Time (DST) began last weekend. I can’t change the time because it’s managed by Cingular, so it’s the fault of their systems. Several local banks in Elizabeth City are broadcasting the incorrect time as well. This…
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Computer Learning Month
October was once Computer Learning Month, supported by the Computer Learning Foundation between 2000 and 2002. Apparently it’s now defunct, but I’m upset that I missed out on the fun, and, if you haven’t figured this out by now, I’m a sucker for modern-era holidays that serve as a celebration of scientific thought and Enlightenment…
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Software Freedom Day
In honor of Software Freedom Day, I am making a concerted effort to install Ubuntu on one of my computers. I would much rather be hanging out at Bug Fest in Raleigh, but I don’t have the gas money or time this weekend. Unlike all my previous attempts to install that stupefyingly complex OS, Linux,…
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You Know It’s Bad When the Computer Starts Mocking You
So we’ve been training a new programmer at work on VBScript and ASP for our logistics software at the Coast Guard base, and this week my team leader and I thought it was a good time to give him a JavaScript-intense task to accomplish. JavaScript is one of the more frustrating web-based solutions because it’s…
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Black is the New Black
I couldn’t take it anymore. Yes, I know white text on black background really cheeses off some people, but I find it easier on the eyes once the pupils open up and adjust to the diminished brightness. I tend to agree with the reasoning that black text on a white background works on paper because…
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Jupiterday Humor: Who are the NPC’s in this Game of Life?
Okay, so I can’t seem to get the whole life is a simulation meme out of my head. It’s simultaneously liberating, because life is all B.S., and fascinating, because of all the potential implications. Thinking about life as just a really advanced video game begs the obvious: Who are the Non-Player Characters? The bots? The…
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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge
“Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?” – Buckminster Fuller American Pavilion’s Geodesic Dome Image Courtesy of Library and Archives Canada The Buckminster Fuller Institute begins accepting submissions for its Buckminster Fuller Challenge today through October 30th, 2007. …seeks submissions of design science solutions within…
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Saturnday Consumer Awareness : Baby Einstein DVDs Turn Infant Brains into Mush
I remember a bit of conversation I had with a friend of mine who was a housewife, where I was complaining to her about my job stresses: Gina: I have a pretty stressful job too, you know. Jerkface Me: What job? Oh wait, lemme guess, you’re a mommy??? Ha! Ha! So what? I own two…
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Marsday Speculation: “the world being run by a futuristic computer geek”
So in case you haven’t heard yet, according to Dr. Nick Bostrom at Oxford University, chances are pretty good that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation. The professor puts our chances of living in a simulation at 20 percent, based on his gut feeling. I agree with the journalist, John Tierney, when he…