Now that’s a nice Christmas morning.
Edit: It’s one of these nerdy math hats.
Tag: nerd
In which I am a great big nerd
There’s a billboard on my commute for a company that’s hiring technical people. They’re using Unix commands in the ad to attract the people they want, so the ad says:
Want to tail -f the latest thing? Then wget http://some/company/url!
Whenever I go by I think “No, I’d want to tail -F in that case, because the latest thing always ends pretty quick and the next one arrives.”
Geek observation after a glass of wine and some Double Gloucester
My life would be so much easier if everything could be tab-completed.
nerd gift
MEDALS FOR STORMING THE ABODE OF CTHULHU
I just bought
One of these: http://www.openmoko.com/products-neo-base-00-stdkit.html
I hope it isn’t a dumb idea. I’m fascinated, though.
It was the best of bands, it was the worst of bands
So, Muriel Spark died after a long and illustrious career. I was reminded that the band Public Image Ltd. named themselves after a novel of hers, which then made me think about literary-rock connections. I started to make a list in my head of Musical Groups Named After Things Literary. Add any you can think of! Note: I cheated and used Wikipedia for some of these. I’m not quite that smart!
Public Image
The Soft Machine
Steely Dan
The Boo Radleys
The Velvet Underground
Pere Ubu
The Thompson Twins
Aerosmith (disputed)
Steppenwolf
The Grifters
Heaven 17
Love and Rockets
Eyeless in Gaza (double Huxley/Milton score as pointed out by someone else)
As I Lay Dying
Veruca Salt
The Grapes of Wrath
Collective Soul
The Doors (double Huxley/Blake score)
The Fall
Hot Water Music
Moby
The fimmtiu has landed!
Tomorrow I have the day off, and Dennis is going to be my date at Nerd Prom tomorrow. Woohoo!