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Category: Geeking Out

  • Hyper-Rummy

    Here’s a variation on an old favorite of a card game. Try playing Rummy, but in addition to pairs and straights, try throwing in other number sets. Hyper-Rummy My (A) Fibbonnacci Set Loosing to (B) Pi, (C) Even Numbers, and (D) Primes. 1 – Ace 11 – Jack 12 – Queen 13 – King Set…

  • My Personal Experience with Triassic Triops

    From my personal observations of my Triassic Triops: 03/14 Add distilled water to the tank. Added nutrient pack, which is like a tea bag. Nutrient pack floats. Accidentally popped it trying to get it to submerge. Particulate, sticks and twigs, are floating in water. 03/17 Added eggs. Eggs clump together on water’s surface. Triops Eggs…

  • ideonexus Now Powered by WordPress.org

    Spent yesterday setting up a wordpress.org blog and transferring everything I’ve written on wordpress.com over to it, AND IT WAS SO EASY!!! It’s about an afternoon’s worth of work. WordPress.com lets you export all your blog content to an XML file, which you have to cut down to several 2MB XML files and upload one…

  • Numerical Tic-Tac-Toe

    Here’s a cool spin on a game you probably haven’t played since you solved it in elementary school. You and another player take turns naming numbers one through nine. Each number may only be used once. The player who collects any three numbers that add up to 15 wins. If all numbers are used up…

  • Just When I Thought I Had Enough Distractions in My Life…

    I’ve started twittering. I’m not ready to have this thing start texting my phone just yet, despite the fact that I can set it up so that my houseplants can text me when they need water. I’m sure my cats would love this service too, “Ryan! Come home and let us (in/out) of the house!…

  • MySpace is Forever

    Whenever I type “Ryan Somma” into google. There’s the bit of JavaScript code I wrote to strip characters from a string variable. There’s my Waterway 5k stats. There are court dockets from my divorce and the time I was sued for a million dollars. There’s also the “Rare Ryan Somma Sighting!” picture of me on…

  • Programming Adventures: Revision History Humor

    I had a good chuckle while working on a Database Procedure today, when I spotted the following entry in the Revision History notes: Revision History Humor

  • New Style

    I’ve decided to switch to a more traditional look and feel. After many hours of reading the white text on black background, even I decided it was time to switch up. Hope this is okay.

  • The Digital Big-Bang

    One Gigabyte 20 Years Ago (left) One Gigabyte Today (Right) source Bill Gates is often misquoted as having said, “no one will ever need more than 640K of memory,” in the 1980s. 24 years ago, my Commodore 64 personal computer ran games like “Mail-Order Monsters” and “Archon” on a mere 64 kilobytes of memory. This…

  • The OLPC XO-1, Shortcut to the Information Age

    So I got my OLPC XO-1 in the mail about a month ago, and I’m still wrestling with my opinion of it. Personally I think it’s the bee’s knees. Everyone who comes into the comic shop fawns over it. I’m the envy of the local geek crowd. I love it when people ask me, “What’s…

  • Adventures in Dating 2.0

    The Internet hosts a wide variety of novel match making services. Personals applications, Social Networking sites, Chat Rooms, and the like all provide the socially inept, like myself, dating opportunities previously unavailable before the Information Age. I can’t imagine how socially-awkward Baby-Boomers found true love without the World Wide Web to aid them. I’m guessing…

  • Geek Exercise and Body Hacking

    I’ve been up and down health-wise all my life. From years of swimming all day long as a child, to years of vegging out in front of the TV in High School, to taking a proactive, fitness-center approach to my health, to falling off the proverbial wagon and putting on the pounds, back to climbing…