Category Archives: Geek
Old Question Answered
I’ve been playing around with themes, mostly for later application to the band site, but also for an idea I have working. Anyway, I stumbled across my old "why would JOHNATHAN be a restricted word" problem.
The answer is that I had already used the same name for the computer. I don’t really know why it [...]
Strange Fame
I’m reinstalling Johnathan’s system. From scratch. In setting up the system, I stumbled across a very odd message:
Names must not be equal to “JOHNATHAN”, “Administrator”, or “Guest”
‘Splains why the directory was ‘J’ and the login ‘Johnathan’ before, anyway. I wonder if there are others in that array.
Cooking for Engineers
One for Dad. Cooking for Engineers has been out there for a while. It’s an extremely methodical approach to working with food, including timing of each step, equipment needed (and documentation of how to use it), etc. Even an engineer can bake a chocolate cake from scratch.
My one complaint is that I noticed the guy [...]
Diet Coke and Mentos
Don’t remember why this kept coming up last week, but I’d promised to track it down for Mom. Cool stuff. And one of the fellas is named “Fritz”.
Backs to the Future
I found this a few weeks back (via Digg) and found it completely fascinating.
Tell an old Aymara speaker to “face the past!” and you just might get a blank stare in return – because he or she already does.
New analysis of the language and gesture of South America’s indigenous Aymara people indicates a reverse concept [...]
A Different Kind of Multiplication
I was picking on Dad in the store today and made a comment about how he’d grown up doing arithmetic with Roman numerals. Here’s an article I stumbled across a few weeks ago (probably via Digg).
It is often said that an important advantage of the decimal notation over the Roman one is that makes multiplication [...]
www. is Deprecated
ToDo, 2/16/2005. Not a typo.
I finally got the .htaccess redirect working. Now when you type in www.whatever, it takes you there and gets rid of the www.
Why? In a nutshell, I don’t like unnecessary redundancy. ;-) You’re looking at the web. www should be the default. Your w key shouldn’t be as worn out as [...]
Apple Closes at $80.86
On the day that Apple Computers, Inc. unveiled its first Intel-based computers, its stock closed at $80.86. The picture below certainly isn’t incontrovertible “proof,” but I nabbed a partial screenshot from Yahoo! Finance just to verify that it wasn’t an urban legend in the making.
Okay, okay. It’s funny because the 8086 was the Intel processor [...]
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Huge URL
I’ve known about TinyURL for a while, but this is a nice twist: HugeURL. Here, for example, is a link to the Vance Band site:
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