MG: The Shenanigans of Infinity
The Shenanigans of Infinity
For those of you who didn’t know, Monday, March 14 was National Pi Day. The one day of the year set aside to celebrate the most awesome of irrational numbers, the number that runs on Energizer batteries and keeps going and going and going… Oh, Pi, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679…
(Yeah, you probably saw that one coming, didn’t you?)
But seriously, how does one celebrate National Pi Day? What behavior is apropos for an infinitely large, non-repeating irrational number? Dive deeper…
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MG: Inception-y At McDonald’s
Modern Geek Chronicles:
Getting All “Inception-y”
“Don’t go getting all Inception-y back there, just drop the damned fries!”
The above statement was overheard at a McDonald’s in the fair city of Wilmington, NC. I have to admit, I’m not quite sure what it means, but it sounds damned serious. Part of me thinks I understand what it means to “get all Inception-y.” In my head, it’s akin to “getting all Matrix-y” which is, itself, akin to “getting all Blade Runner-y.” Jump back a hundred years and the saying was probably “getting all Metropolis-y.” Step back about 1500 years and it’s “don’t go getting all Justinian-y.” And on and on and on.
I wonder what the hell could have been going on in that McDonald’s that was “Inception-y.” I picture a pair of pimple-faced teenagers scuffling in the belly of a spinning industrial freezer as processed meat patties tumbled like hockey pucks Dive deeper…
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MG: Geek for So Long
The Modern Geek Chronicles:
Geek for so long…
I’ve been Geek for so long I’ve begun losing my non-geek perspective…and I’m okay with that.
Once a week myself and my two best geek friends get together for weekly shenanigans. Typically, this involves steaks, movies and/or video games. And while we’re all pretty hardcore geeks in our own right, when the three of us get together, the Geek Meter gets ratcheted up way past ten, and I’ve been Geek for so long, I hardly notice the oddness of it, but I sometimes wonder how it looks to the world around us. Here’s what I mean: Dive deeper…
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Heatsinks & Love: Seeking “Big”
Modern Geek Chronicles:
A Geek Seeking “Big”
The ladies have known it for years: bigger is better. We like to try and pretend that it’s not true, even as we sit groggily on the couch at 3 a.m., watch those Enzyte commercials and wonder…look down at our lap…then wonder again.
(Yeah, go ahead, pretend it’s just me.)
But the simple truth is that, in a great many times in life, you want bigger. We geeks are no exception. We want “Big.” Big computers. Big hard drives. Big keyboards. Big games. Big mathematics. Big atom smashers. Big Geek get togethers.
We love Big.
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