November 4th 2008
One last post today before I go wandering about. Pictures!
Also, you know, go vote.
Archive for the 'Geekery' Category
September 16th 2008
Sometimes I pick up an album just because of the band’s name and I’m really disappointed, like with the Strangulated Beatoffs.
I don’t think there’s any way that I’d go wrong with Sad Day for Puppets.
August 18th 2008
Thanks to a text from Ryan, I spent part of my day thinking up the titles of songs that would appear on an album named “Sad Emoticon.” Had I musical ability or creativity based on something other than sleep-deprivation, I’d think about writing at least lyrics for these. As it is, I’ll just have to be satisfied with the concept EP (since I only have four song titles). It’s missing a song between “I’m all a-Twitter” and “Close Your Open Parenthesis” for a break up song. Had I more than a toddler’s handful of readers or something to give away, I’d suggest a contest.
- A/S/L?
- Wink to Flirt
- I’m all a-Twitter
- Close Your Open Parenthesis
July 17th 2008
I have a Ph.D. in Horribleness
For free viewing, this is time sensitive so get on over here to see Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day sing a Joss Whedon musical about superheroes, supervillians and love.
NF: And these (raises fists) are not The Hammer.
(walks away. comes back.)
The Hammer is my penis.
April 9th 2008
One of the many ways I’m a nerd (part 1 in a continuing series)
I am in the middle of an analysis of the times that Tellers With Keys are scheduled to leave for the day at my job. There really is no good reason for me to be doing this, it just kind of seemed like a neat idea, and a logical outgrowth of the question “When did this person last close?”
Sure, that information’s interesting, but what will certainly be more interesting is to see if there are any patterns on when people normally leave, keeping in mind schedule availability (e.g. it makes total sense when someone’s schedule leaves it impossible to close on a given day). I only have the numbers for January and February in front of me, and I’m terribly amused that I’ve not closed (worked until 3, 4, 5 or 6pm) 14 times and closed 22 times. I’m pretty sure that I win. I’m not sure what I’ve won, but it’s something.
But really, the crucial question I have right now: why did I just start setting up a spreadsheet?
March 20th 2008
so much space
I did something fiscally irresponsible today. I spent at least an hour wandering around the store looking at models, playing with settings, getting plenty of slightly worried “can I help you, sir?” when I touched things I probably oughtn’t, and talking myself down from a purchase. I totally failed. After having built a new computer a few weeks ago, I bought a new monitor, and right now I’m running a dual monitor set-up.
It’s neat. A bit disorienting, but neat. I’m not used to my monitor being so bright, and I’m not used to having something glow on one periphery as I type or surf or watch.
It took me a couple of hours worth of fiddling to get all the right settings clicked, cajoled and kicked into line, and it won’t be perfect until I convince myself that I can spend the same amount of money again to get another 20″ widescreen LCD so they can be run at the native resolution. Right now I’m using screen space decadently. I’m typing this entry on the new monitor, and I have iTunes up on the other one. Earlier, I was watching the latest South Park and reading email at the same time. Truly, I am in the future now.
I do wish I could get the monitors to run at different resolutions, and I’d dearly love it if more games came with an easily accessible windowed mode. Those be minor quibbles, though. Here be awesomeness.
February 4th 2008
Thanks, Speedboost
Because I should be doing other things, and because I should have done other things all weekend long, I find myself in a position to take the following screenshot.
That’s Comcastic! (Note, I am not commending Comcast on a job well done, any reasonably competent cable company should be able to provide speeds like that on occasion. Also, that speed, not so much for the duration.)
January 30th 2008
Fun with Google Analytics
I’m not sure when it happened, but sometime in the last week or so I completed the MIMAL set in terms of visitors to the blog. Go me.
January 2nd 2008
Further Evidence
I am in my heart-of-hearts, and other, more visible places besides, a geek. A nerd. A (currently, lamentably) basement dweller. A larger portion of my New Years Eve was spent watching part of a Buffy season and playing with a cat than I am generally comfortable informing the general world*
All that is to give a bit of background why I found The GOP primary field cast as Buffy villians deeply amusing, and why I knew more about the villians than the candidates**.
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* I’ll let any enterprising readers supply their own dirty, homophone using jokes. There are some things I’m not willing to do to myself.
** Is there a more proper word for nominatory*** hopefuls? Candidate seems imprecise, given that the term is most often, in my admittedly limited experience, wielded about after the nominations.
*** Firefox doesn’t like that word. Too bad, for I do.
