This was the last time I could lord my superiority with computers over my classmates, sigh. I still salvaged these two incidents:

  1. We were given floppy disks to save our excel spreadsheets. Someone asked what they were. I responded “1.44 megabyte thumb drives”. Stunned, the person then asked when floppy drives would become widely available.
  2. A question on the test asked for the common page that pops up when you load a student web page. They wanted index.html, although my answer of “404 Page Not Found” was better.
  3. I got bored, so I stirred up trouble by creating a data sheet full of randomly generated numbers increasing the file size to about 480 megs. I raised my hand stupidly complaining about the fact that the file wouldn’t transfer so he smartly emailed the file to himself. Temple has a 500 meg inbox limit. I hope he had some stuff already in there. tee hee hee

This was the last time I could lord my superiority with computers over my classmates, sigh. I still salvaged these two incidents:

  1. We were given floppy disks to save our excel spreadsheets. Someone asked what they were. I responded “1.44 megabyte thumb drives”. Stunned, the person then asked when floppy drives would become widely available.
  2. A question on the test asked for the common page that pops up when you load a student web page. They wanted index.html, although my answer of “404 Page Not Found” was better.
  3. I got bored, so I stirred up trouble by creating a data sheet full of randomly generated numbers increasing the file size to about 480 megs. I raised my hand stupidly complaining about the fact that the file wouldn’t transfer so he smartly emailed the file to himself. Temple has a 500 meg inbox limit. I hope he had some stuff already in there. tee hee hee

I was driving home when I saw what I thought was a funny sign in a bus.
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The sign says “Bus has been checked for sleeping children as is empty”, I giggled to myself until a kid pointed at me in surprise, turned around, yelled and the back of the bus was rushed with kids with wide eyes wondering what the creepy guy following them was doing.

I’m not sure what the name of the next street was but I turn onto it and drove, very quickly.

I was driving home when I saw what I thought was a funny sign in a bus.
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The sign says “Bus has been checked for sleeping children as is empty”, I giggled to myself until a kid pointed at me in surprise, turned around, yelled and the back of the bus was rushed with kids with wide eyes wondering what the creepy guy following them was doing.

I’m not sure what the name of the next street was but I turn onto it and drove, very quickly.

For the last year or so I’ve joked that I’m a Level 2 actuary and can cast magic missile.  A joke about which I don’t think anyone has yet laughed.  What once started as a joke now may become reality with NASA starting an MMO.  Besides being quite possibly the dumbest premise for an MMO I’ve ever seen except for possibly the Shakespeare MMO I can only assume that it’ll be identical to WoW except for with fantastically more ridiculous classes like Darkwater Physicist, Mathematician of the Holy Nimbus and some sort of Materials Scientist/Druid combo that allows players to transform into carbon nanotubes.

Having trouble running rocket simulations?  Slide-rule of Prediction +5!  Challenger mishap repeat?  Resurrection bitches!  I look forward to the world’s nerdiest PvP games.

For the last year or so I’ve joked that I’m a Level 2 actuary and can cast magic missile.  A joke about which I don’t think anyone has yet laughed.  What once started as a joke now may become reality with NASA starting an MMO.  Besides being quite possibly the dumbest premise for an MMO I’ve ever seen except for possibly the Shakespeare MMO I can only assume that it’ll be identical to WoW except for with fantastically more ridiculous classes like Darkwater Physicist, Mathematician of the Holy Nimbus and some sort of Materials Scientist/Druid combo that allows players to transform into carbon nanotubes.

Having trouble running rocket simulations?  Slide-rule of Prediction +5!  Challenger mishap repeat?  Resurrection bitches!  I look forward to the world’s nerdiest PvP games.

Coworker:  My son’s looking for a good sci-fi book, nothing too tricky, he’s 13.
Me: Hm…. Ender’s Game would probably be a good start, or if he likes it a little darker, Neuromancer.  What’s he reading now?
Coworker: Some fantasy crap, chipmunks with swords and shit like that.

Coworker:  My son’s looking for a good sci-fi book, nothing too tricky, he’s 13.
Me: Hm…. Ender’s Game would probably be a good start, or if he likes it a little darker, Neuromancer.  What’s he reading now?
Coworker: Some fantasy crap, chipmunks with swords and shit like that.