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Category Archives: Ne-e-e-e-e-erd!
Interesting, to say the least
I got a new watch from my wife for my birthday last month. It's a great watch, and I like it rather a lot. Today on my lunch break, for no other reason than "because I'm a nerd", I punched my watch's serial number into Google, expecting to find — I don't know, maybe its [...]
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13 words (plus a bonus)
13 words that sound like what they mean gobbledygook thrash chunky buzz oodles pish-tosh dork scruples least worm craw clip hose One word that doesn't sound like what it means onomatopoeia
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This morning came awful early
When my wife's alarm clock went off at 5:30 AM, she said to me, "When did you get in last night?" Me: "3:30." Her: "Yeah. I woke up at 2:30, and you weren't in yet. I thought, Those idiots*, and went back to sleep." Those idiots were me and my cow-orker Craig, and the reason [...]
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Contemplating a tattoo
…someday. And so here're the ones currently under consideration: Two ravens, along with a quote from verse 80 of Hávamál: "Praise ice when over it". (But ideally, translated into Icelandic.) This — the cherry blossom eight-sided mirror symbol of Kodokan Judo. Eppur si muove — Galileo's (probably apocryphal) rebuttal to his forced confession that the [...]
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The jetpack theory
42. Jetpack Discovered in tom gauld's Flickr photostream. Tom Gauld has it right. 100% right, IMHO.
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Triple threat
I'm kind of a sucker for certain things: Images of galaxies — I love the great whorls of stars that make up the visible mass of the Universe The history of science, especially physics and astronomy A clever title So it was probably inevitable that I'd check this book out of the library today: I'll [...]
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Profoundly [something]
Dead Tauntaun Cake Discovered in Official Star Wars Blog's Flickr photostream. …where [something] is either awesome or disturbing. Awesturbing? Maybe there just aren't words yet for what this is. Maybe the cake-maker has transcended the capacity of the English language.
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Movie review: Moon
About an hour ago, the credits rolled on Moon. I went into the film knowing very little: the only trailer I'd seen featured Sam Rockwell looking disheveled, and had Kevin Spacey as a HAL-style AI that communicated via a combination of even, soothing tones, and smiley faces. I won't post any spoilers here, but suffice [...]
Indispensable for writers…
…the latest Dresden Codak webcomic wossname deals up a list of the Essential 3rd Act Twists.
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The Swamp House