Playboy Having not bought (or even seen) this issue of Playboy, but knowing many (as in, more than several) people people who have bought it (all for the same reason, of course)... I though this was funny. (yes, instead of watching the superbowl, I'm catching up on geek webcomics. I'm sure that says something about me, but I'm not sure what).
And it just keeps getting geekier... Only 60.356% geek. But I'm sure that's enough. I literally doubled David's score. Which is funny, and not really all that suprising.
10th Dimension? Hey... does anyone out there know a real quick and easy way to slice a 10 dimensional hypercube on some sort of diagonal? Like, if I had a regular cube (specifically a 3d matrix), I could cut it from top left front corner to bottom right back corner, and get two halves. Each half could then be divided by parallel planes or whatever, the first cut is the hard part.
I can handle 3d, because I can draw it on paper. I'm a little lost doing the same in 10d... although, at this point, I would really settle for dividing a 6d hypercube...
Serenity So I went and saw Serenity last night (Saturday night). And I thought it was an ok movie. Not a great movie, not the best movie in the world, not "the next Star Wars", just ok.
Apparently, this makes me odd.
Given, I have't seen Firefly (which makes me an oddity in the geek world, I know)... So I didn't have the it's-going-to-be-awesome fan-girl attachment to the film going into it.
But yeah. Things I liked about the movie: The plot was fairly interesting, the characters were decently well developed (having a season of character development helped), the acting was ok, and they did some cool things with memory and madness and stuff. Things I didn't like: They overdid the CG, given their budget. The movie was full of CG, but it wasn't quite all there (with the exception of a few scenes where it was really good). I think they could have done less CG and gotten better quality, and it would have made the movie look better overall. The dialog was a little odd... like charachters would talk normally for several minutes, and then break some weird grammer rule or something, and it sounded out of place (I'm told this fits with the TV show). Also, the camera angels were weird, and they would move the camera so fast that the background strobed (which generally makes me sick)... and they did this a lot. The fight scenes weren't as well done as they could have been... but they were interesting, at least.
Anyway. Enough for now. I have to sleep or something.
Was sick yesterday... all day. Feeling kinda blah today, but no fever. Big Mike and Jenna came over last night, which was cool because I hadn't seen them in forever. When they left, I was extremely tired, and didn't really want to deal with people... so Chad ran to Wesley to talk to people, and I stayed home. Which apparently caused some sort of weird strife between people, and when Chad said he was coming home to cook dinner for me, someone called him fat :-/ I wasn't trying to be anti-social, people... I was just sick, and didn't want to see anyone. I was very social to people who were talking to me online.
Various April Fool's pranks in the works I hear... some more dangerous than others. If I can get ahold of a digital camera, I'll try to get a pic of my April Fool's exploit... only true geeks will appreciate. ;-)
The vending machines in Butler Hall (the CS building) are out. I mean. Out. The snack machine has literally nothing in it except chewing gum. Like, it doesn't even have that one awfully stale bag of pork rinds on the tops row that most of the vending machines on campus has... no pop tarts... no candy bars... no chips. Nothing. The coke machine is out of Dr. Pepper, Mello Yellow, and Diet Coke, and one of the CocaCola buttons is out. This leaves only CocaCola available, and in limited quanitities. The juice machine is out of orange juice, apple juice, cranberry juice, and green powerade. This leaves only bottled water and blue powerade. It's been this way since Monday.
So the CS majors are like, shrivelling up without their normal sources of sugar and caffine. Reduced to drinking relatively low caffine CocaCola... we are driven from our building to seek other sources of food... To the Union. A scary place with *gasp* other people... who *horrified look* aren't geeks.
I think it's an evil plot to socialize us, and to prove to other majors that we really can exist outside our building. But... I'm hungry. So I'll go.
At least the Union has wireless (unlike the other food places on campus).
Update: The coke machine is now out of CocaCola. And the juice machine is out of blue powerade. But they refilled the snack machine. So we might not revolt. Maybe.
you know... there are really very few things as satisfying as sitting and coding something just for fun (not for a grade)... with no deadlines... while blaring Alanis Morissette (Jagged Little Pill, what else?) through my sightly less than optimum laptop speakers... with the freedom to sing at the top of my lungs... and eating Froot Loops. Straight out of the box. Geek girl nirvana. *sigh* The only thing I need now is... ummm.... Dilbert pajamas?
Oh yeah... kind of an aside. And pointless, I suppose since you can't comment...
Has anyone seen the new IBM/Linux commercials on TV? Cause I thought that was just way too cool... Chad says I'm a dork. *sigh* So what does the rest of the world (computer techies and not-computer techies both) think about it?
And why is there like, almost zero open source stuff for Macs? Is there not a demand for it? Or not enough designers? (One would assume that demand would create designers... but not always). Interesting thought question, I suppose.
Dude... you know you've been telnetting into UNIX computers for too long when you enter your password on a Windows machine and, without waiting for the OS to load, type 'pine' to check your e-mail. And then, when your OS finally loads, you get into Outlook to check your mail, type a reply to something, and try to send it by hitting ^x.
Ha ha... I have found the counter to my nerd status... Why geek girls RULE :-)
1. They are VERY cute.
2. They are smart.
3. They know how to code.
4. They know it's not the size of the drive, but what's on it that counts.
5. They know who Anakin Skywalker is.
6. They don't giggle when talking about hardware and software.
7. Hacking is an aphrodisiac.
8. They understand the NEED to upgrade your system.
9. They know how to hack your registry, very well.
10. They completely understood "The Matrix"
Alright, alright, I give up. Two tests in a week have confirmed that yes, I am a nerd. Apparently, quite a nerd. But, somehow, I managed to get the nerd title, but not the smarts. *note to Chad: this might explain my nervous breakdown last night over two upcoming B's this semester.* Ho hum. I suppose that after like, a bizzilion years of being called a nerd, it wouldn't suprise me. Anyway...
I guess I'll go back to reading my Nazi book, and doing calculus homework *sigh* the life of a geek.
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
