Found this strip from XKCD this morning...


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Looks like some of my geek-fu stayed with me from last year.

Color me pleased.

*poof*

I begin to see the merits of the iPad. I have yet, however, to see where that value approaches the asking price thereof.

That is all.

*poof*

For those who were paying attention, I was going off a bit last week on keeping things simple and having fun. The core of my mini-vent was an ongoing "discussion" (and I use that word loosely) on a pair of forums I've begun to frequent, which talk about model railroading, realistic operations thereon, and how to interface a computer to the layout. ( Read more... )

This will, invariably, piss off consumer-electronics salespeople the world over, along with lots of other salespeople. But it's still true ( Read more... )

Happy birthday (yesterday) to Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), the world's first computer programmer. She was the only legitimate child of poet Lord (George Gordon) Byron, and while working with Charles Babbage on his "analytical engine", was credited with the development of the first algorithm intended for machine processing ( Read more... )

I was supposed to get an evaluation on my Office skills. It didn't happen; the computer the agency has all the testing systems set up on decided to take the day off. A morning wasted. And tomorrow is supposed to be the first of four or five days of fairly constant rain.

Is it too late to kidnap my hunny to some remote island?

Bleah...

*poof*

I just completed installing the Android SDK. I am now capable of developing apps for the Droid/MyTouch platform ( Read more... )

Am I hopelessly nerdish because I find this exceedingly humorous?


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Since I don't currently have working connectivity at the apartment...could someone burn and mail me a copy of this? Email me...

*poof*