Aside from spending virtually all of my time in front of my laptop, I like to travel. Yes, if I had the money to do so, I would spend my time hopping from one destination to the next. From Asia to Europe to Australia to Africa to the Americas – I would visit every single place that I could. I do not have a concrete plan, well, I DIDN’T – until I got wind of The Geek Atlas.
Its full title is The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science And Technology Come Alive. Need I explain more? Every self-respecting geek, nerd, or dork (or whatever you want to call people) would jump at the chance to go through this book’s pages AND then actually go and visit the places featured.
This is a one of a kind travel guide, which showcases the most significant locations on earth; significant in that they were (or are) places where a scientific, mathematical, or technological discovery was made (or being made). To give you a taste of what’s inside the pages, take a look at these:
• Bletchley Park in the UK, where the Enigma code was broken
• The Alan Turing Memorial in Manchester, England
• The Horn Antenna in New Jersey, where the Big Bang theory was confirmed
• The National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, Maryland
• The Trinity Test Site in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was exploded
• The Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California
If you are not familiar with the concepts, then go Google it! But I am pretty sure I got you at Enigma. Head on over to O’Reilly and get your copy now for $29.99.
No Comments Yet | Posted by gecko at 8:04 am under Books
My day job started out simple enough. I just kept to myself and did my job the best that I could. Before my first year was up, the people higher up took notice and gave me a promotion (I think). And before I knew it, I was doing more things that I would rather not do, really. One of these is interviewing potential employees.
I do not like talking to people face to face, especially if I do not know them. I do not like spending at least 30 minutes asking questions that people will not give the right answers to. I do not like having to smile and be sociable. But I have to do it. It’s part of the job (although I didn’t know that till I had both feet inside the door).
Anyhow, in an effort to make things a bit more interesting for me, I think I shall get this cute little thing called the Circuit Board Clip Board. You know those boards which you use to put paper in so that you can write easily without having to put the paper on a desk?
The ones we have in the office are the usual black or gray vinyl boards. With this board that ThinkGeek has, however, I would actually be using a real motherboard that has seen the best of its life. At least it is being used for some other purpose and not gathering dust somewhere, right? Only $13.99 folks. That’s worth having something interesting to look at while interviewing.
No Comments Yet | Posted by gecko at 8:54 pm under General
Now if only had this when I was in high school, I never would have had any problems memorizing the whole table! I actually saw this shower curtain while I was watching the first season of The Big Bang Theory earlier. The shower curtain that Leonard and Sheldon (obviously the main characters of the show) showed the periodic table in all its glory. I couldn’t help but want it for myself, so I searched the Internet for one.
Thanks to Walyou, I found it! In fact, it is being sold over at ThinkGeek (I just love this site!) for $29.99. This is what they have to say about this awesome thing:
… it’s hard to deny the Periodic Table Shower Curtain’s usefulness. All the time you spend in the bathroom, you might as well brush up on your transition metals, and your lanthanide and actinide series. Jog those brain cells with some steaming hot water, and a giant six-foot tall periodic table.
The Periodic Table Shower Curtain is 71 inches square, and made from EVA Vinyl (Ethylene vinyl acetate and Polyethylene, but you knew that), and is semi-transparent with the Periodic Table of Elements printed in large friendly letters and colors.
All right, you might not really need a shower curtain that will help you memorize the whole periodic table now, but it would certainly be cool to have it, wouldn’t it? It will also serve as an interesting conversation piece – not that I am suggesting that you have interesting conversations in the bathroom.
No Comments Yet | Posted by gecko at 8:54 pm under Home & Garden
Who is the oldest Twitter user on record? You probably have heard of her, 104-year-old Ivy Bean. Just recently, I read all about her online. From mainstream online newspapers to various personal blogs and tech blogs, the topic of Ivy Bean seemed to catch on.
The Telegraph writes about her:
Her first posts have included “Looking forward to Deal or No Deal later,” “just having a cuppa,” and “chicken casserole was lovely, going to have a nod now.”
And she is not the only pensioner at Hillside Manor residential home in Bradford, west Yorks, to be regularly getting online.
Pat Wright, Residence Manager said: “All the residents are taking a leaf out of her book. Four signed up for ‘computer-college’ while others joined Facebook, surf the net and enjoy themselves with ten-pin bowling on the games console.”
Ivy Bean started it all when she was a mere 102 years old. That was when she started using Facebook. Thanks to the members of the Geek Squad, which is a subsidiary of the Best Buy Company, Ivy went one step further in the world of social networking and signed up for Twitter. Since she started, she has gathered thousands and thousands of followers.
So what does tweet about? Just what she does on a daily basis, really. From dominoes to reading newspapers – we get a glimpse of the life of a centenarian living in a nursing home. It’s not all that bad.
Some say it’s just a publicity stunt. Let’s hope not. You can follow Ivy at IvyBean104.
No Comments Yet | Posted by gecko at 3:19 pm under General, News
Remember those jocks in school who made your lives hell? Well, send them this article and gloat:
While computer nerds are obviously good at IT, what we didn’t realise is that they’re good at “it” too.
An anonymous study of 2,000 British men and women concluded that out of all jobs, computer geeks make the best lovers.
They were found to be the most selfless in the sack, the most adventurous and more likely to use love gadgets.
Seventy-eight per cent of techies that were questioned also claimed that sex toys were part of their love life.
And a further eight out of ten tech workers said that sex toys played an important part in their sexual relationships.
Eighty-two per cent of IT workers also claimed to consider their partners sexual needs above there own, the highest result from all of those asked.
I knew it!!! So you see, just because we don’t spend hours and hours in the gym or on court, it doesn’t mean that we can’t deliver.
There’s something about the study that I cannot ignore, though. The anonymous study was done in the UK. I wonder if they would get similar results if the study were done in the US.
Now let me tell you, a lot of people are already saying negative things about this study. Don’t mind them. You and I know the truth, don’t we? 
No Comments Yet | Posted by gecko at 2:45 pm under General, News
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