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List of language inventors

2008 Oct 10, 1:43PermalinkCommentslanguage klingon nerd wikipedia conlang

Weekend Dinners: Old friends, Old library

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.

Carnegie's Public Library in Ballard Seattle is now a restaurant.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.

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Drumline Meets Revenge of the Nerds - CollegeHumor video

2008 Sep 26, 10:34"Drumline Meets Revenge of the Nerds. UC Berkeley's Marching band is still only 16-bit."PermalinkCommentshumor video drumline berkley videogame nintendo

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / The Singularity Problem and Non-Problem

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."PermalinkCommentssingularity scifi blog tor quote

Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons and Dragon's podcast

2008 Jul 16, 8:38Dungeons and Dragons podcast which includes recorded sessions of the Penny Arcade and PvP webcomic creators playing D&D.PermalinkCommentspodcast penny-arcade mp3 feed audio pvp dungeons-and-dragons nerd dnd

Mazda 3.1415926535............ - usa_cars's Car Photo

2008 Jul 11, 12:27This person's Mazda is pi - 3 better than mine.PermalinkCommentspi humor nerd car mazda photo

Internet Anagram Server : Anagrams for david risney

2008 May 9, 5:53W/o my middle name: Add ivy resin, Daisy driven. W/ my middle name: Envy is deadlier, Evil nerdy ideasPermalinkCommentsdavid-risney me anagram text

Saul and Ciera's Wedding

2008 Apr 26, 11:45

Saul IncredulousLast 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?

Saul and Ciera's Wedding CakeA 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.

Vlad plays with KatieBesides 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.

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Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider - What's new

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 usPermalinkCommentshumor nerd science quantum-mechanics tomb-raider game gaming

The Nerd Handbook

2007 Nov 12, 1:48A guide to the why of various nerdy behavior. I find some of this applicable to me.PermalinkCommentsnerd humor article tips social howto via:swannman

ThinkGeek :: Clocky Robotic Alarm

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.PermalinkCommentsalarm purchase shopping nerd robot video

Tersumus

2007 Apr 11, 6:28An eraser (as in pencil & paper) shaped like a delete key from a keyboard.PermalinkCommentsshopping office nerd key delete eraser

YouTube - Monzy performs at Stanford Univ.

2007 Apr 9, 5:00Monzy performing Kill-9 rapping about killing processes and generally insulting your ability to code, use Unix, etc.PermalinkCommentsvideo humor unix live rap music nerd nerd-core via:swannman

Bruce Schneier Facts (Everybody Loves Eric Raymond)

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.PermalinkCommentseric-raymond bruce-schneier security humor encryption crypto nerd

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

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.PermalinkCommentsstarwars movies analysis humor essay article nerd nerds scifi

xkcd

2006 Dec 28, 2:09A humorous nerdy webcomic.PermalinkCommentscomics humor comic math science nerd daily language

YouTube - Weird Al - White & Nerdy

2006 Oct 22, 3:54Music Video for Weird Al's song White and NerdyPermalinkCommentsmusic video music-video weird-al white-and-nerdy

BBspot - Which File Extension Are You?

2006 Oct 6, 2:44I'm html. Word.PermalinkCommentshumor quiz nerd test

All Too Flat : Pranks

2006 Jul 31, 1:11PermalinkCommentshumor prank pranks nerds

Main Page - Memory Alpha

2005 Sep 4, 3:24Star Trek EncyclopediaPermalinkCommentsencyclopedia reference scifi startrek tv nerds search
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