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Celebrate Independence Day. Read about computers!

Neither one is related to the other. I'm just mashing words together. Dork!

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code

Labels: independence, lotd, nerd, software development

Although only a few of the billions of text editors out there, these descriptions of some of the more popular ones found on the Mac are indeed hilarious. The vi one is spot on.

http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2011/07/29/text-editors-in-the-lord-of-the-rings/

Labels: "blog as notepad", ha ha, lotd, nerd

I psyched myself up so much that I almost psyched myself out of going to Otakon. I did end up there on Saturday, but I didn't get to experience it all just the cosplaying and the dealer room.

The week leading up to Otakon I couldn't fully make up my mind to go. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go or not. On one hand there is no day ticket; it's $80 at the door for the whole 3 day affair. Would I be able to spend that much time? Perhaps Saturday, but Sunday? To make that $80 go far it would have to be two days.

I went Saturday but failed to make it on Sunday.

Cosplaying is out of hand. I could admire those that put effort into their costume, but most of the time they cosplayer just slaps something on. There's clever and then there's the cosplayers from Otakon. Or is this just an non-japanese thing?

I stood in a line expecting that what I was waiting for would turn out to be worth it. Then I checked the description again, found out they would show several episodes before the special guests would speak, and I jetted. I worked my way to a manga industry panel, Vertical, to see what they had coming out.

That was only thing I sat in on. The day was cut short because I had to go to dinner for a cousin. I left having accumulated several phone charms of K-ON! girls (Waitress Mugi, Jun-chan, and Ui), the special Lawson limited edition Nendoroid petit of some K-ON!! girls (Azusa, Mio, and Yui), and 3 manga of Watamote in Japanese.

It was fun. I'm thinking about next year.

Labels: geeked, let's get together yeah yeah yeah, nerd

"I can't do a Jedi mind-meld to make Republicans do the right thing."

President Barack Obama

Labels: John McCain is unfit for the presidency, nerd, political, qotd

J.R.R. Tolkien was a genius. Not for creating the history of Middle Earth. But for creating the languages of the people of Middle Earth.

Today's link brings you to a thorough study of all the languages Tolkien devised. All of them. Once you see what he did, you'll understand why he created Middle Earth. He needed to hear his languages. He had to create a place for their use. Elves and men, dwarves and orcs, hobbits and ents all had their own tongue. Tolkien created one for each of them. All of them different, and yet some of them the same.

Genius.

http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/

Labels: genius, lotd, nerd, Tolkien

I've been spending lots of time on the command line. I've just learned about sed. My life is awesome, but, really, it sucks if I find sed fun.

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

Labels: lotd, nerd

The National Pinball Museum has opened up in Baltimore. Who's up for a couple of games? I think we can take the metro. I'm looking forward to the Addams Family, Whirlwind, or Earthshaker -- the games of my youth. I'm also looking forward to the Black Knight or that Alien pinball game. I wonder if they'll have the latest and greatest. Who knows? Let's find out.

http://www.nationalpinballmuseum.org/museum/index.html

Labels: games people play, lotd, nerd

In our younger days, we would've been doing this ourselves. What's stopping us?

Let's go. I've got a blaster right here.

http://www.starwarsuncut.com/

Labels: geeked, lotd, nerd

Binaries! Get your binaries here!

I think better in octal. Happy 3F day!

And for all you regular humans, it's 63!

http://www.ascii.cl/conversion.htm

Labels: lotd, nerd

Suckerpunch looks to be a real fan boy movie. I'm there. Of course, it's a Zack Snyder production so it will be a 90 minute film stretched to 2.5 hours all in slow motion.



I'm interested in seeing it for the anime/manga/otaku influences. Twin tails is so anime/manga. I wonder if she is tsundere. She's got the sailor fuku going. Not too bad except that this one's too Americanized with the bare midriff highlight. Next Halloween we'll be getting sexy sailor fuku at all the Halloween parties. Most importantly though, zetta ryouiki. Hopefully this movie doesn't ruin it all, which most assuredly it will.

Labels: :-(, movies, nerd, zettai ryouiki

Happy 1F-day, motherfumpders!

Can't wait for another 10 months for 3F-day!

Ha ha ha ha...

This should've been a tweet....

Labels: nerd, WTF

Pic courtesy Danny Choo

Nendoroids on discount. Dang, I wish I can just pick me up a few.

Labels: commerce, nendoroid, nerd

This actually looks good.

http://www.google.com/phone/static/en_US-nexusone_tech_specs.html

Good riddance.

Labels: nerd

I read some of the blogs linked off of Camden Chat. Normally, it's an Orioles news site such as Roch Kubato (sp?) of MSN or other Orioles blogs such as Roar from 34, but some of the time I find time to check on Orioles specific blogs. One of the early ones was Orioles Card 'O' the Day. It takes a look at past and present Orioles via baseball cards. It's a cool site that allows you to see Orioles history and to remember some of the team's players.

Looking at all these baseball cards has gotten me to think about my own history of baseball card collecting. Yes, I've got baseball cards. It's what every all American male would have been doing as a kid. My brothers and my dad also contributed to this passion. My dad, especially, was keen on this hobby. He would buy us a pack or take us on to card shops and buy some older cards. He would continue to collect even when his sons out grew the hobby. We still have his boxed 1987 (year?) Topps complete collection somewhere, although, my older brother seems to be hoarding these for himself for safety (hee hee).

Anyway, visiting baseball card blogs recalls my fondness for those cardboard collectibles, and in particular my passion for it during the halcyon days of 1980. It was the year I truly bought lots of cards. They were only $0.25 for a pack. I remember buying lots at a time. Of course, the Orioles of that time were the only cards I really cared about. I have a fondness for Jim Palmer because of that year as I seemed to have many multiples of his card. The Pittsburgh Pirates cards I hated, and it seemed that I had plenty of the damned Kent Tekulve. I must burn his card any chance I get.

Today's link is to a baseball card blog that's going through each individual card of the 1980 Topps set. How nostalgic.

http://1980toppsbaseball.blogspot.com/

Labels: baseball, baseball cards, lotd, nerd

Really cute asians can make you cry.

http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/24986/Alodia.html

Labels: geeked, lotd, nerd, so kawaii

I read the Wyman's post on summer reading, and it reminds me that I, too, did some heavy summer reading. Heavy in the sense that I read more books in the past few months than I had done in a long time. And, no, they weren't filled with 2D girls or men in tights, they were real books with words, sentences, and paragraphs. Stories, persuasive arguments, colorful anecdotes. All there in the books I read. I'll divide the books into the genres I was reading to highlight what piqued my interest for the summer.

The first subject I devoured relates to the grand old national pastime, baseball. It began with Alyssa Milano's recollection of her life filtered through the joys of the boys of summer: Safe At Home. Admittedly, I picked it up because as an 80s kid, I had a crush on her, and I want to find out her views on the game. She's very knowledgeable about the game. It's rather intimidating as I only know it superficially enough to get by in the stands, but she knocks 'em out of the park with her experience (and love for the game.)

I also read an interesting account of the 1966 World Series, Black And Blue. The Orioles first World Series. It seems so long ago as compared to the sad, sad team they are today, but we were champions once. It's an interesting read, but I think all sports books kind of have the same ebb and flow: here's team A, then here's team B, then they meet, post-mortem. It really should've been Black and Orange as the tale (and the Series) was mostly about the Orioles.

I read about Ichiro and his impact on the game. I have the prequel and intend to read it, but it languishes on my nightstand.

The next genre was new urbanism. I got through James Howard Kuntsler's tirade, Home From Nowhere and slogged through Traffic. It's almost making me want to move into high-density, public transportation ready cities. I'm currently reading Jane Jacob's polemic, The Life and Death of Great American Cities.

I did geek out. Besides Oscar Wao I managed to read the light novel, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. It's the original source for the anime. It's decent, but exactly like the anime. I'm catching up with Suzumiya-sama by starting in on The Sighs of Haruhi Suzumiya. Kami-sama saves.

Labels: nerd, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, well read

I've never read Love Hina. I've heard good things about it. It's a harem manga and kami-sama knows how cliched they could be. I might pick it up after reading how it makes otaku swoon. I'm sucker for harem manga (Ichigo 100% is straight up harem), but I hope the guy is no doofus (in Ichigo 100% that guy's frustrating) so that I'm not yelling at him every few pages.

http://animealmanac.com/2009/02/24/repost-keitaro-urashima-the-everynerd/

Labels: lotd, manga, nerd

I can't believe I forgot to post about the technical Oscar awards. These are better than Sunday's broadcast because it's all about the nerdy stuff. And it's hosted, lately, by a hottie. This year's host was Jessica Biel. Yeah! She's pretty hot! But not comparable to when Rachel McAdams hosted it a few years back.

http://www.oscars.org/awards/scitech/index.html

Labels: lotd, nerd, oscar pool

"I'm interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobaud Internet connection to a 1.5 megabit fiber optic T1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that's compatible with my Token Ring Ethernet LAN configuration?"

Comic Shop Guy, The Simpsons "Das Bus"

Labels: ha ha, nerd, qotd, www

Here's a first -- a link of the day that doesn't take you anywhere. Of course, if you had a problem with any previous links of the day, then you may have thought that those took you no where, and you have already seen a BrowserMetrics link of the day that doesn't take you anywhere, special. But I promise this link doesn't take you anywhere of note, because it ends up at some domain name seller who is parking this domain name waiting for someone, maybe me, stupid enough to buy this domain. Get me Homer Simpson.

http://www.interslice.com/

Labels: geeked, ha ha, lotd, meta, nerd, why am i telling you this?