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I had a lot of interesting, witty, and insight stuff to write that I thought
about at work the last few days, but now that I"m sitting here typing, I can't
for the life of me recall what I was going to say. Sorry bout that.
SomethingAwful once again comes up with pure genius, and profile's the
various types of DDR dancers. It's a bit scary how dead-on he is with the
various sterotypes, cause I've seen them all. I'd put myself under the
super-hot-geeky-great-dancer-nerdy-cool guy category, well I'd create one first
and then put myself under there. I think that's a pretty accurate assesment
right? Right?!?!
Ok, a few nerd quickies (which I shamelessly stole from Slashdot): First up is
that I finished Nerds 2.0.1 which was about the history of the 'net. Very very
good book, I suggest getting it if you're into that sorta thing. Secondly I
bought a book called "Time" which, you guessed it, is about time. So far I
really like it, it explains our time system came into being, with seconds,
months, hours, how we got the names of days, and lots of other related things.
And now on a totally unrelated note, the speed of light may not be constant
after all. I still believe that someday it will be possible to travel faster
than light. Sure it's impossible under physics AS WE KNOW IT, but as this latest
discovery has shown, scientific principles are always changing and being
refined. That's the beauty of science, the unadulterated pursuit of knowledge.
And finally, an algorithm has been discovered that can prove that a number is
prime (PDF or a higher
quality Postscript)
with 100% accuracy in P time (which means you don't take the incredibly long
method of plugging and chugging every single number into a prime number to make
sure it's prime). Before it was only 99.9999...% accuracy, but 100% just looks
nicer doesn't it? That's enough nerdity for one day I do think.
Who could forget old
skool Nintendo controllers? I used to have the Power Pad since it came with
my NES, and I suppose the Dance Dance Revolution mat is just an evolution of it.
And then the infamous "I love the power glove. Its so bad." line from The Wizard. I
wonder how many gloves Nintendo sold from that line alone.
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