Actually, I briefly (and not all that well) knew a woman in college who may just be the perfect geek girl... unbelievably beautiful, fun to hang out with, insanely tech-inclined, probably reads/. regularly as well and will likely see this...
Okay, strictly speaking I don't. I'm just talking about gift giving in general.
The flip side is that my mother is always saying that she's my Valentine... there are times my mother seems to be trying to give me an Oedipus complex. It's just real disturbing.
So does the concept of "endemic social anxiety disorder" mean anything to you? Believe me, geeks would rule the romantic rule if they put us all on Paxil drips once we realized we were geeks...
The new Socket H... it's an option with the Via KT69 chipset. Comes with an optional USMB (Universal Serial Massage Bus) hub connector. The southbridge is a piece of chocolate from Teuscher. And it's perfect for the oh-oh-OHverclocker in your life.
The problem is that most of us geek guys see geek girls as being incredibly unobtainable. Here's my take on geek girls:
-Invariably gorgeous, though a lot of them don't realize it
-Usually very adventurous
-Generally much more graceful than geek guys
-always, but always, utterly unobtainable, at least to the average guy geek off the street
That, and there are many geek girls who are not the least bit technically inclined. I know one who fits very much into that category -- I think she's sort of a Stevie Nicks wannabe but she has the geek nature in spades. And she fits all of the above.
Let's be honest here -- everyone's using the same calendar, Christian and Otherwise. That's why AD is becoming an obsolete usage. You conservatives are forgetting -- this is still a secular society in this country.
Christmas time. Since I don't have a girlfriend I have to rely on my parents for a gift. I wanted a bass (I play guitar but want to learn bass) and got a scanner. The scanner still doesn't work and I think I fried my USB port in the process of installing it. The bass is still sitting in a guitar shop, and I can't afford it.
If you're like my mother gift certificates are the only way to go -- she's impossible to shop for because she never gives anybody a real hint as to what she wants. Of course, dating anyone like that is a challenge, BUT THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM AROUND HERE, NOW, IS IT?!
At least you're acknowledging the arguments against your case, which is more than some of your philosophical elders will state.
The point comes down to the fact that there's no meaningful distinction between macro- and microevolution but time. "Scientific Creationists" have proposed all sorts of barriers to force that which is self-evident to fit within their world view; the distinction between microevolution and macroevolution is one of them. The fact of the matter is that if creationism was a tenable scientific theory it would never have been supplanted the way it was in the first place. That's how science works: that which works is kept, that which doesn't is thrown out. The fact is that there aren't too many places where God fits into the universe, at least not your perception of God as a creationist.
Let's face it: as a creationist (and you do seem to be unusually intelligent for one) you've bought into the "common sense" fallacy that your preachers have been feeding you and those like you for the last hundred years or so. This is the fallacy that compels fundamentalists to wrench the Bible out of the many cultural contexts it was written under and to assume it's all to be taken literally as we understand it now.
Knowledge changes; context changes.
BTW, your shrimp? Probably won't do so well; that particular set of mutations is not what I would consider beneficial, and anything with that set of mutations will probably die pretty horribly pretty early. The flip side is that if the skin respiration came first, there'd be a significant survival advantage as the shrimp can now leave the water for short periods of time, maybe get to another tidepool if the one it's in dries out.
Modern Klingons don't use base 3; it's mentioned as being old tradition, but base 10 (the higher numbers seem to be derived from musical notes) is the norm in "modern" Klingon society. There is some vestigial base 3 stuff in the spec (there's a log3 function that I designed but never implemented) but for the most part I haven't made much of an effort in the base 3 department, primarily because of notational issues.
Actually, the idea that Klingon hackers are women is something I agree with. The problem with slave labor is that while it might apply in the commercial sector, the risk of a back door in, say, an airlock controller aboard a Klingon battlecruiser from a rebellious slave programmer is too great.
There's precedent in our own culture too; the long-forgotten ENIAC programmers were all women, and they had a status about on a par with secretaries in those days.
I've given that a fair amount of thought, actually. Long story short it sort of comes out to Ethernet with busmastering capability (lots of redundancy, you see).
Just keep in mind the following: you're talking about a geek (me) whose fastest computer is a Pentium II that I bought for less than $200 last year. Believe me, after getting slashdotted I understand why people pay, but I still can't afford any better.
The esolang culture is actually what inspired me to create var'aq in the first place. Chris Pressey, creator of Befunge and the person most directly responsible for giving me the idea for Var'aq in the first place; the Klingon angle happened to be the most convenient of its kind. I thought of doing an Elvish programming language as well (i.e. Sindarin-based) but Tolkien somehow left out virtually every mention of Elvish hackers in LotR:-)
I've also kicked around the idea of a programming language based on Latin based on Chris' thoughts on using inflection in a programming language, but it's not one of those things that seems to come together easily...
The PC-building company I work with has some interesting cases. The pretty ones are a bitch to work with, though (except for this pricey aluminum number).
The main issue is that nobody bothers to come up with truly innovative looks for cases apart from Apple, Sony, and Hewlett-Packard (and HP's current Pavilion boxes aren't quite as nice as the iMacish ones they had a year or two ago at that). Compaq in particular has some of the most hideous in the business; the current Presario design is scraping the . I do like Gateway's and Dell's (server boxes only for Dell, though); they're a bit dull, but they're for the most part fairly clean and elegant designs.
Hmmmm... just a thought -- has anyone ever done a feng shui analysis on a typical computer case, just to see what comes up? I don't buy into the make-or-break mysticism that its devotees have, but I do thing feng shui is one of the more interesting tools for cleaning up the aesthetics of a space.
Cookwise rocks, and it sucks that I can't find my copy. Shirley Corriher should have her own TV show.
Actually, these sciency kinds of cookbook are some of my favorites; you might also want to check out the America's Test Kitchen Cookbook while you're at it. Chris Kimball may look like a dork on TV with that bowtie, but he and the Cooks Illustrated people know their shit, better than most other people I've seen (including me).
Anthony Bourdain's newest book, A Cook's Tour, has some interesting things to say about tobacco in food, actually.
To those of you who've not read Kitchen Confidential (great book, and it rings very true for a guy who worked five years in a college cafeteria), Anthony Bourdain is the executive chef at a French sort-of steak house in NYC called Brasserie Les Halles. He's had a very colorful career and he's an excellent writer -- a couple of mystery novels and a history of Typhoid Mary are his other works). In A Cook's Tour (a tie-in with a show he's doing on the TV Food Network) he talks at one point about visiting a restaurant in California called the French Laundry, a restaurant whose chef, Thomas Keller, is widely believed to be the best French chef working today.
He sat down to dinner with a number of chef friends of his to what has to be the largest tasting menu I've ever heard of -- individual courses for each person eating, with a dining room crowd in full effect. The place is no-smoking, which was causing Tony some discomfort; however, Keller had apparently read Kitchen Confidential and knew about Bourdain's chain-smoking, so at one point he slipped in Coffee and a Cigarette...
This was, by the way, a dessert of sorts. I'm a little hazy on exactly what it was, but I believe it was something along the lines of coffee ice cream served with a tobacco-flavored custard. And apparently, at least to Bourdain, it was pretty damn good too. Even got a bit of a buzz off it.
I wouldn't eat it, but maybe tobacco sauce is actually kinda tasty?
Why bother porting TCP/IP to the Lego RCX when it's already got its own functional IR communications routine?
Because you can.
Fact is that there's a lot of demand out there for non-Intel hardware. I'm in the process of updating my geek code because I just got a job building PCs. I've studied Scott Mueller's book and I find it truly amazing that the PC architecture even works; Northbridge-Southbridge is easy enough to understand on the face of it, but there is an amazing amount of crap that has to be dealt with just to get to a boot prompt.
PC hardware is nasty and skanky. Sun/Apple/anything customized usually is not. Someone may despise MacOS and yet look at the hardware and think it's pretty elegant. Some simply want the challenge of porting NetBSD or Linux to it.
Itanium is not in good shape these days -- Intel is said to be considering copying AMD Hammer, which would be almost certain doom for everyone's least favorite 64-bit platform.
Yeah, there was a lot of blunt force trauma in those kernels -- even ken and dmr admitted that.
Still, it's good to see it out there -- just once I'd like to plop a copy of V7 onto a floppy disk or a CDR and see how it runs on a reasonably modern Mac or PC...
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Think about some of his other interests. If nothing else, buy him a box of Legos. Magnetic Poetry is nice as well.
/Brian
If there isn't a good geek-inclined pickup bar in the Cambridge/Boston/inside 128 (MA) area, there should be one...
...and if there is, I'd like to know about it.
/Brian
Interesting thought...
/. regularly as well and will likely see this...
Actually, I briefly (and not all that well) knew a woman in college who may just be the perfect geek girl... unbelievably beautiful, fun to hang out with, insanely tech-inclined, probably reads
Believe it or not, her name is Window.
/Brian
Okay, strictly speaking I don't. I'm just talking about gift giving in general.
The flip side is that my mother is always saying that she's my Valentine... there are times my mother seems to be trying to give me an Oedipus complex. It's just real disturbing.
/Brian
So does the concept of "endemic social anxiety disorder" mean anything to you? Believe me, geeks would rule the romantic rule if they put us all on Paxil drips once we realized we were geeks...
/Brian
The new Socket H... it's an option with the Via KT69 chipset. Comes with an optional USMB (Universal Serial Massage Bus) hub connector. The southbridge is a piece of chocolate from Teuscher. And it's perfect for the oh-oh-OHverclocker in your life.
/Brian
The problem is that most of us geek guys see geek girls as being incredibly unobtainable. Here's my take on geek girls:
-Invariably gorgeous, though a lot of them don't realize it
-Usually very adventurous
-Generally much more graceful than geek guys
-always, but always, utterly unobtainable, at least to the average guy geek off the street
That, and there are many geek girls who are not the least bit technically inclined. I know one who fits very much into that category -- I think she's sort of a Stevie Nicks wannabe but she has the geek nature in spades. And she fits all of the above.
/Brian
Children, children...
Let's be honest here -- everyone's using the same calendar, Christian and Otherwise. That's why AD is becoming an obsolete usage. You conservatives are forgetting -- this is still a secular society in this country.
/Brian
Oy...
Christmas time. Since I don't have a girlfriend I have to rely on my parents for a gift. I wanted a bass (I play guitar but want to learn bass) and got a scanner. The scanner still doesn't work and I think I fried my USB port in the process of installing it. The bass is still sitting in a guitar shop, and I can't afford it.
/Brian
If you're like my mother gift certificates are the only way to go -- she's impossible to shop for because she never gives anybody a real hint as to what she wants. Of course, dating anyone like that is a challenge, BUT THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM AROUND HERE, NOW, IS IT?!
Happy Bitter and Miserable Day...
/Brian
At least you're acknowledging the arguments against your case, which is more than some of your philosophical elders will state.
The point comes down to the fact that there's no meaningful distinction between macro- and microevolution but time. "Scientific Creationists" have proposed all sorts of barriers to force that which is self-evident to fit within their world view; the distinction between microevolution and macroevolution is one of them. The fact of the matter is that if creationism was a tenable scientific theory it would never have been supplanted the way it was in the first place. That's how science works: that which works is kept, that which doesn't is thrown out. The fact is that there aren't too many places where God fits into the universe, at least not your perception of God as a creationist.
Let's face it: as a creationist (and you do seem to be unusually intelligent for one) you've bought into the "common sense" fallacy that your preachers have been feeding you and those like you for the last hundred years or so. This is the fallacy that compels fundamentalists to wrench the Bible out of the many cultural contexts it was written under and to assume it's all to be taken literally as we understand it now.
Knowledge changes; context changes.
BTW, your shrimp? Probably won't do so well; that particular set of mutations is not what I would consider beneficial, and anything with that set of mutations will probably die pretty horribly pretty early. The flip side is that if the skin respiration came first, there'd be a significant survival advantage as the shrimp can now leave the water for short periods of time, maybe get to another tidepool if the one it's in dries out.
/Brian
Modern Klingons don't use base 3; it's mentioned as being old tradition, but base 10 (the higher numbers seem to be derived from musical notes) is the norm in "modern" Klingon society. There is some vestigial base 3 stuff in the spec (there's a log3 function that I designed but never implemented) but for the most part I haven't made much of an effort in the base 3 department, primarily because of notational issues.
/Brian
Actually, the idea that Klingon hackers are women is something I agree with. The problem with slave labor is that while it might apply in the commercial sector, the risk of a back door in, say, an airlock controller aboard a Klingon battlecruiser from a rebellious slave programmer is too great.
There's precedent in our own culture too; the long-forgotten ENIAC programmers were all women, and they had a status about on a par with secretaries in those days.
/Brian
Hey, I didn't post it; the /. crew found it on their own. As for bandwidth, I got what I can afford. It sucks, but...
/Brian
I've given that a fair amount of thought, actually. Long story short it sort of comes out to Ethernet with busmastering capability (lots of redundancy, you see).
/brian
Just keep in mind the following: you're talking about a geek (me) whose fastest computer is a Pentium II that I bought for less than $200 last year. Believe me, after getting slashdotted I understand why people pay, but I still can't afford any better.
Sorry folks...
/Brian
The esolang culture is actually what inspired me to create var'aq in the first place. Chris Pressey, creator of Befunge and the person most directly responsible for giving me the idea for Var'aq in the first place; the Klingon angle happened to be the most convenient of its kind. I thought of doing an Elvish programming language as well (i.e. Sindarin-based) but Tolkien somehow left out virtually every mention of Elvish hackers in LotR :-)
I've also kicked around the idea of a programming language based on Latin based on Chris' thoughts on using inflection in a programming language, but it's not one of those things that seems to come together easily...
/Brian
The PC-building company I work with has some interesting cases. The pretty ones are a bitch to work with, though (except for this pricey aluminum number).
The main issue is that nobody bothers to come up with truly innovative looks for cases apart from Apple, Sony, and Hewlett-Packard (and HP's current Pavilion boxes aren't quite as nice as the iMacish ones they had a year or two ago at that). Compaq in particular has some of the most hideous in the business; the current Presario design is scraping the . I do like Gateway's and Dell's (server boxes only for Dell, though); they're a bit dull, but they're for the most part fairly clean and elegant designs.
Hmmmm... just a thought -- has anyone ever done a feng shui analysis on a typical computer case, just to see what comes up? I don't buy into the make-or-break mysticism that its devotees have, but I do thing feng shui is one of the more interesting tools for cleaning up the aesthetics of a space.
/Brian
Cookwise rocks, and it sucks that I can't find my copy. Shirley Corriher should have her own TV show.
Actually, these sciency kinds of cookbook are some of my favorites; you might also want to check out the America's Test Kitchen Cookbook while you're at it. Chris Kimball may look like a dork on TV with that bowtie, but he and the Cooks Illustrated people know their shit, better than most other people I've seen (including me).
/Brian
Anthony Bourdain's newest book, A Cook's Tour, has some interesting things to say about tobacco in food, actually.
To those of you who've not read Kitchen Confidential (great book, and it rings very true for a guy who worked five years in a college cafeteria), Anthony Bourdain is the executive chef at a French sort-of steak house in NYC called Brasserie Les Halles. He's had a very colorful career and he's an excellent writer -- a couple of mystery novels and a history of Typhoid Mary are his other works). In A Cook's Tour (a tie-in with a show he's doing on the TV Food Network) he talks at one point about visiting a restaurant in California called the French Laundry, a restaurant whose chef, Thomas Keller, is widely believed to be the best French chef working today.
He sat down to dinner with a number of chef friends of his to what has to be the largest tasting menu I've ever heard of -- individual courses for each person eating, with a dining room crowd in full effect. The place is no-smoking, which was causing Tony some discomfort; however, Keller had apparently read Kitchen Confidential and knew about Bourdain's chain-smoking, so at one point he slipped in Coffee and a Cigarette...
This was, by the way, a dessert of sorts. I'm a little hazy on exactly what it was, but I believe it was something along the lines of coffee ice cream served with a tobacco-flavored custard. And apparently, at least to Bourdain, it was pretty damn good too. Even got a bit of a buzz off it.
I wouldn't eat it, but maybe tobacco sauce is actually kinda tasty?
/Brian
Sugar, salt, grease, caffeine, and chocolate.
/Brian
Why bother porting TCP/IP to the Lego RCX when it's already got its own functional IR communications routine?
Because you can.
Fact is that there's a lot of demand out there for non-Intel hardware. I'm in the process of updating my geek code because I just got a job building PCs. I've studied Scott Mueller's book and I find it truly amazing that the PC architecture even works; Northbridge-Southbridge is easy enough to understand on the face of it, but there is an amazing amount of crap that has to be dealt with just to get to a boot prompt.
PC hardware is nasty and skanky. Sun/Apple/anything customized usually is not. Someone may despise MacOS and yet look at the hardware and think it's pretty elegant. Some simply want the challenge of porting NetBSD or Linux to it.
/Brian
Itanium is not in good shape these days -- Intel is said to be considering copying AMD Hammer, which would be almost certain doom for everyone's least favorite 64-bit platform.
/Brian
No, V7. The original. Silly billy.
/Brian
Yeah, there was a lot of blunt force trauma in those kernels -- even ken and dmr admitted that.
Still, it's good to see it out there -- just once I'd like to plop a copy of V7 onto a floppy disk or a CDR and see how it runs on a reasonably modern Mac or PC...
/Brian