Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Jack of Some Trades, Master of None
Since geeking out in IL, I’ve been putting my hand back into ASP.NET web development at work. As I expected, the training taught me to crawl, and, in some cases, walk; trying to do stuff to our web site, however, seems to require black belt experience in several martial arts. (At first, I thought I [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Autobiographical by nerdmeyr
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Monkey love
I’ve been reading a biography of psychologist Harry Harlow, the man who (as his hyperbole-prone biographer put it) proved to the hard-hearted men of his field that love really does make the world go round. The book, Love at Goon Park, is an extremely fascinating history of primate studies, and of academic culture. The author, [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Curation, Displays by k
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Fantastic Planet
Stop Alien Abductions was brought to my attention at a recent lecture; I hope you all give the site a visit. Given my own research interests on youth and judgment, I found the Aliens and Children (see “Abduction and Technical Information Websites”) section most fascinating. Let me first say that I think fashioning a goodlooking [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Cabinet of curios by k
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Iraq Has 2 Virginia Techs Every Day
From Juan Cole, President of the Global Americana Institute:
I keep hearing from US politicians and the US mass media that the “situation is improving” in Iraq. The profound sorrow and alarm produced in the American public by the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech should give us a baseline for what the Iraqis are actually living [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Displays, the New World Order by nerdmeyr
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Alanis Morrissey
Back from nerding out in IL; believe me, people, if you haven’t tried to solve a real-life problem in your dreams by dreaming of constructing a C# class with full inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation to address the problem’s properties and methods, you. really. haven’t. lived. At least you haven’t lived the kind of [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Cabinet of curios by nerdmeyr
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Mooninite Melodies
Nerdmeyr is currently nerding out somewhere in Illinois, and I am spending the better part of this week doing chores around the house (i.e., taxes). There’s a common shorthand in movies for establishing a character as distracted and disorganized. The character, typically single, will realize their life is unsatisfying and out of control and will [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Autobiographical, Curation by k
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Watch out for Growly McMenacing
Everytime I go to the USPS near my work, I spent time standing in line staring at this poster. There are many things I appreciate about the USPS: the uniforms, the fact that the people who work there are paid by our government and not Halliburton (at least not yet), the endearing attempts [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Curation, the New World Order by nerdmeyr
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Viagra Bike PRon
Mmm, lookit the curves on this thing. As Buster Poindexter would say, “Hot! Hot! Hot!”
Peter Hans is a total design genius.
Might feel like you were riding something out of the flinstones (how heavy do you think it is? And what’s the road vibration dampening properties of oak and maple anyway?), but it sure [...]
