2008 Oct 10, 1:43A blog comment included the phrase 'hard-core conlangers' which at first glance sounds dirty, then based on the context I thought it was made up, but of course Wikipedia has the actual answer: "A
conlanger ... is person who invents conlangs (constructed languages)."
language klingon nerd wikipedia conlang 2008 Oct 7, 12:21
Last Thursday I saw a bunch of college friends that I hadn't seen in a while, despite all of us working at Microsoft, and Saul and Ciera who were visiting. We had dinner at Typhoon! which I haven't
been to in quite a while. Daniil and Val brought their cute child. I got to see Charlie and Matt who I'm not sure I've seen since my 25th birthday. There was much nerdiness. I need to remember to
organize such a night myself sometime in near future so I don't have to wait another year to see them.
On the weekend Sarah and I went out to dinner at Carnegie's, a former
public library in Ballard, Seattle that's now a restaurant. I saw the restaurant's website in Matt's delicious links and thought it looked interesting. The exterior and entryway look like a public
library, but just inside its redone as a sort of modern version of french classical with a bar and two dining rooms. No pictures since my replacement camera only arrived today, but there are
photos available. They serve french cuisine which was good and
not as expensive as I would have expected. An interesting place, although its a bit of a drive and I'm not sure if we'll be going back soon.
carnegies personal restaurant weekend nontechnical 2008 Sep 26, 10:34"Drumline Meets Revenge of the Nerds. UC Berkeley's Marching band is still only 16-bit."
humor video drumline berkley videogame nintendo 2008 Jul 22, 1:43Just for this quote: "Since then, the Singularity has come to be an object of almost religious faith in some quarters. In The Cassini Division, Ken MacLeod has a character call it "the Rapture for
nerds," and that's just how I see it."
singularity scifi blog tor quote 2008 Jul 16, 8:38Dungeons and Dragons podcast which includes recorded sessions of the Penny Arcade and PvP webcomic creators playing D&D.
podcast penny-arcade mp3 feed audio pvp dungeons-and-dragons nerd dnd 2008 Jul 11, 12:27This person's Mazda is pi - 3 better than mine.
pi humor nerd car mazda photo 2008 May 9, 5:53W/o my middle name: Add ivy resin, Daisy driven. W/ my middle name: Envy is deadlier, Evil nerdy ideas
david-risney me anagram text 2008 Apr 26, 11:45
Last weekend while Sarah was up in Canada for a spa weekend with her sister and her sister's other bridesmaids, I went to Saul and Ciera's
wedding in Three Rivers, California near Sequoia National Park. I flew into Fresno picked up a rental car and my GPS device navigated me to a restaurant with the wedding location no where in sight.
"No problem," I thought, "I'll just call someone with an Internet connection and..." I had no cell reception. What did people do before GPS, Internet, and cell phones?
A waitress in the restaurant pointed me down the road a bit to the wedding location which was outside overlooking a
river. Their wedding cake was made up like a mountain with two backpacks at the top and rope hanging down. Ciera's father married them and the ceremony was lovely. The music after included Code Monkey to which all the nerds were forced to get up and awkwardly dance.
Besides getting to see Ciera and Saul who I hadn't seen in quite a while, I got to see Daniil and Val, Vlad, and Nathaniel. Since
last I saw Daniil and Val they had a child, Katie who is very cute and in whom I can see a lot of family resemblance. The always hilarious Vlad,
Daniil's brother, was there as well with his wife who I got to meet. Nathaniel, my manager from Vizolutions was there and I don't know if I've seen him since I moved to Washington. It was fun to
see him and meet his girlfriend who was kind enough to donate her extra male to male mini-phono cord so I could listen to my Zune in the rental car stereo on the drive back.
wedding saul and ciera california nontechnical 2008 Feb 8, 12:52FTA: "Quantum mechanics has a number of weird consequences... In trying to come up with a classical conceptual model in which to capture these non-classical phenomena, we eventually hit upon using
the idea of using computer games as an analogy. ...let us
humor nerd science quantum-mechanics tomb-raider game gaming 2007 Nov 12, 1:48A guide to the why of various nerdy behavior. I find some of this applicable to me.
nerd humor article tips social howto via:swannman 2007 May 15, 11:19Video of clocky the robot alarm clock. When it alarms it runs and hides forcing you to get up and go after it.
alarm purchase shopping nerd robot video 2007 Apr 11, 6:28An eraser (as in pencil & paper) shaped like a delete key from a keyboard.
shopping office nerd key delete eraser 2007 Apr 9, 5:00Monzy performing Kill-9 rapping about killing processes and generally insulting your ability to code, use Unix, etc.
video humor unix live rap music nerd nerd-core via:swannman 2007 Jan 29, 2:16This is Chuck Norris facts for Bruce Schneier. Example: "SSL is invulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. Unless that man is Bruce Schneier.", "Bruce Schneier doesn't keep secrets -- they keep
themselves out of fear.
eric-raymond bruce-schneier security humor encryption crypto nerd 2007 Jan 22, 7:06Essay putting Chewie and R2D2 as key figures of the Rebel Alliance. Reconsidering ep 4 in light of 1-3. Its easy to put words in the mouth of the characters we can't understand.
starwars movies analysis humor essay article nerd nerds scifi 2006 Dec 28, 2:09A humorous nerdy webcomic.
comics humor comic math science nerd daily language 2006 Oct 22, 3:54Music Video for Weird Al's song White and Nerdy
music video music-video weird-al white-and-nerdy 2006 Oct 6, 2:44I'm html. Word.
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