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  • Geek Misconceptions

    Kasia writes about something that annoyed me a bit. She points to “A Girl’s Guide to Geek Guys” and “The Guy’s Guide to Geek Girls, V2.0” and comments on some of the points they make.

    Let’s clear some things up.

    • The Star Trek thing.

      Star Trek is not a geek thing. Not all geeks like Star Trek, heck, most geeks I know never watch it. Would you people stop equating geeks with Star Trek freaks? Who the hell is Ivanova? The first guy to buy me a Star Trek mousepad as a cute gift would wear it as a collar in about fifteen seconds or less.

    • Branded tshirts.

      So people think geeks wear tshirts with brand names because they’re proudly displaying their loyalty? That’s cute and funny at the same time. T-shirts at conferences are free, t-shirts at conferences come emblazoned with logos and brand-names, ergo, geeks often wear tshirts with brand names because they’re free. Unlike the rest of you gap-labled yuppies, we don’t pay to advertise corporations.

      Unless you count my Free Software Foundation tshirt, I paid for that, but that was really more of a donation than a purchase. Sort of like the emacs manual, yah, i’ll ever read that!

    • Geeks can fix things.

      Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha — that’s all I’m going to say on the issue.

    [kasia in a nutshell]

    In general, I’ve always thought of myself as more on the geek side. But reading through the guide to geek guys it seems I was wrong. I’m barely geeky at all! Even though in humor, I just found that these were just so wrong and cliched that they weren’t even that funny.

  • OS-tan

    Seen over on Compendium (via MetaFilter), the OS gals. Of course, my favorite is the Mac OS X Gal.

    A small internet phenomenon on Futaba Channel, the OS-tan (OS for Operating System, and -tan as an overly cute Japanese honorific for a person, specifically a child slurring “-chan”) or simply OS Girls are the personification of several OSes, most famously Windows, by various amateur Japanese artists. A pure fan creation, the appearance of each character is generally consistent among artists. OSes are almost always portrayed as women, the Windows girls usually as sisters, despite sometimes seeming the same age.

    …

    The MacOS X GirlThe Mac OS X girl is often portrayed as cat-eared, in following with the Apple “wild cat” naming tradition (every MacOS X release has a codename like “Jaguar”, “Panther” and so on). Otherwise, she is shown as an older variation of the Mac OS 9 girl, wearing a platinum white coat and a wireless AirPort device fashioned as a hat. She is occasionally shown holding a newspaper or yearbook, as many high school newspapers and yearbooks use Mac OS X. [Wikipedia]

    Too cute (or dare I say…. KAWAII!)

  • QOTD

    Ralph Hodgson
    “Some things have to be believed to be seen.” [via Quotes of the Day]

  • My New Fangled Blogroll

    One of the first things I’ve posted to my wiki is a short article on how I did my new blogroll (down on the left). It’s a bit of PHP/CSS/Javascript code that all works to make the expandable folders. Comments are welcome and appreciated.

  • life – wikified

    After a few false starts I’ve started up my own personal wiki. In the end I decided that MoinMoin would be the best choice for me, since it is fairly small and simple. TikiWiki was interesting, but just way too much for a small personal wiki. Now I just need to make some themes. to make it fit in with the rest of my site. Anyways, you can get there via the link on the left, or by clicking here.

    There really isn’t that much in there yet. But I’m planning to use it for random information I want to keep track of. And if you want to contribute at all just let me know (everyone has read permission unless I grant them more).

  • Partisan Project

    I tend to stay away from discussing politics on this site, but my friend John just IM’d me a link to a pretty nifty site called PartisanProject..

    What We Did. We invited 15 designers and artists to each create one, two-color poster (18.5″x24″) urging a vote against the current administration. The posters were printed, stacked together, folded in half and in half again – like a newspaper. These poster packs are being distributed much like a free newsweekly – dropped in bookstores, coffeehouses, restaurants, grocery stores, libraries, etc. throughout the city of Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas of southwestern Pennsylvania. people can choose a poster (or posters) they like and hang it outside their home or somewhere in their neighborhood. The posters can also be downloaded at this website. We are also wheat-pasting the posters in various locations through the city. And in September, we will host a gallery event where each poster will be displayed en masse along with speakers, voter registration booths and live music. [Partisan Project. INFO]

    Neat idea. Given that I’m not a fan of the current administration, I thought this sounded pretty cool. I also think they’re a bit short-sighted and should also be pushing this for other areas beyond Pittsburgh. And someone needs to tell them that you really shouldn’t have all the text in your site be images. It makes it impossible to quote things easily.

  • Puzzle From Hell

    My parents have a number of puzzles from ELMS Puzzles, Inc. They are a company that makes these beautiful hand made wooden puzzles that are usually quite hard. I took some pictures of the one we’re working on right now. It is one of the more challenging puzzles I’ve ever done because the edges aren’t straight. Also, they seem to like to put some pieces in that have a straight edge on them that go in the middle of the puzzle, helping to confuse you more. Oh yes, and there’s no picture of what the puzzle will look like, so it is kind of cool waiting to see what the whole thing will look like.

    My mom also just mentioned a place called Stave Puzzles, that sounds like another place that does the same kind of thing (with some even crazier looking puzzles).

  • More Proof That iTunes Reads Minds

    I just fired up iTunes because I wanted to listen to some music, but also wanted to hear one song in particular first. So I hit shuffle and then searched for the song. The scroll bar barely moved and I noticed that it was the second song in the shuffle. Coincidence? I think not.

  • QOTD 09/10/2004

    Elbert Hubbard:

    “Never explain–your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” [via Quotes of the Day]

  • Screwing Up Templates

    Bah, I really need to test templates more before doing a publish entire site.

    Update: One of these days I’ll get it right.