Angry Geek

I found this funny and quite true post over at Once Upon a Geek. I especially like these excerpts from ‘Job Description: Married Geek With Children’ ;

“Applicant is expected to give up most available geekery time.  Applicant must be willing to sacrifice geek-related activities in exchange for: chasing after children; helping with the dishes; bathing children; tucking children in bed; and all-around household chores. “

Been there done that, however now that my boys are 6 & 7, it is not as bad challenging as it used to be. The boys have friends now, and they would already rather hang with them then me. They take showers with very little supervision and bed time is a breeze. Oh, and chores around the house? I still do them, but my non-geek spousal unit helps a lot does most of them!

“Alone Time” Addendum

“Alone Time” definition: The highly unusual instances (nearly mythical) in which the applicant find themselves without children, spousal unit, and/or personal/professional duties to perform.  Applicant must accept the only “alone time” they will have for the rest of their lives will most likely occur in one of the following places/circumstances:

The alone time is so true! Alone time, WTF is that? Alone in the bathroom? Ya right, my boys can’t get the concept of knocking, they just barge in and start yacking away like it is perfectly normal to engage their parental unit while I sit on the crapper! Alas, I don’t get much “me” time anymore either, and I have never been great at staying up late and lately I can’t get up too early either. When I did I learn all this techno/geek information before…oh ya, BEFORE we forked 2 child processes!

Once Upon a Geek is apparently (duh!) a big comic book fan, something I used to be, but I guess it never got fully ingrained in my geek personality. I should start reading comics again as it is something I certainly want my boys to get into when the time is right?

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It is time to revive this blog! I have not posted here in a long time, mostly due to just being too busy and posting to another site I blog on. The other site is my main site and people I know, work with or am related to know of that site so I keep it fairly clean and frankly a bit bland!

Recently someone at work made a comment about something in my personal life that he could only have known by reading my blog. It was not anything personal, but he is someone in management and I’m not a big fan of his, so it kind of bummed me out that he feels the need to check in on my personal life, but when you have a blog and people know about it you can’t complain if they read it.

To my knowledge no one that I personally know is aware that I own this domian name, it is my private little slice of life on web.

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This is almost too good to be true! Windows computers play “Fur Elise” or “It’s a Small, Small World” at seemingly random intervals! Can you imagine how many people that this “feature” has driven mad? How would the average home computer user ever make the leap from “hmmm..my computer keeps playing Fur Elise..maybe this is a hardware failure alert?”. I don’t think so. Never mind the details, it’s still awesome, in a MS kind of way.

Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

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I found an interesting site, via Richard Wurman’s site, who is the founder of TED, among many other things. 19.20.21. Is an interesting site that is starting a 5 year study about the worlds cities, the future and impact of these large cities. More and more of the earth’s poplulation lives in cities, and interestingly enough, most are on a sea coast. Add that to the fact that sea levels continue to rise due to global warming and you can easily see that living in a large coastal city may become a problem for “us” in the future!

I’m going to follow the site and see what interesting information they have to disseminate.

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I found this on Richard Stallman’s blog, he says it was anonymous on the web.

• Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime,unless you’re a conservative radio host. Then it’s an illness andyou need our prayers for your recovery.
• The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.
• Government should relax regulation of Big Business and Big Money but crack down on individuals who use marijuana to relieve the pain of illness.
• “Standing Tall for America” means firing your workers and moving their jobs to India.
• A woman can’t be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.
• Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
• The best way to improve military morale is o praise the troops in speeches while slashing veterans’ benefits and combat pay.
• Group sex and drug use are degenerate sins unless you someday run for governor of California as a Republican.
• If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won’t have sex.
• A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, then demand their cooperation and money.
• HMOs and insurance companies have the interest of the public at heart.
• Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health care to all Americans is socialism.
• Global warming and tobacco’s link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.
• Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a “we can’t find Bin Laden” diversion.
• A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense. A president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.
• Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.
• The public has a right to know about Hillary’s cattle trades, but George Bush’s driving record is none of our business.
• You support states’ rights, which means Attorney General John Ashcroft can tell states what local voter initiatives they have a right to adopt.
• What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the ’80s is irrelevant.
• Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.

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Check out these amazing Flight Patterns from outerspace! Designer Aaron Koblin took data from FAA and made awesome animations with all of the flight patterns. Every time I see something like this it amazes me the things that smart people will find to do with raw data!

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Check out these amazing Flight Patterns from outerspace! Designer Aaron Koblin took data from FAA and made awesome animations with all of the flight patterns. Every time I see something like this it amazes me the things that smart people will find to do with raw data!

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Perhaps a link of the day?

Check out this nifty little offering from our friends at Google. GrandCentral is their gadget of the moment. I actually wish it worked in reverse; any number someone calls will route to your selected number. For example, all calls to my various numbers (home, office, cell) could ring on one line (my cell).

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Ah, there are just so many gadgets and too little money! I really need to become a better writer/blogger so I can start ‘beta’ testing devices like this.

The Zonbu is an affordable computing platform that appears to be the ideal answer for moms, kids, or the luxury of a computer in the kitchen. Ya, I want a pc in the kitchen, with a 15″ lcd screen, wireless keyboard and mouse, very convenient for checking the weather, our shared Google calendar, or last minute directions for Google Maps.

From the zonbu websit;

The best thing about Zonbu is that it just works — right out of the
box. Connect it to your broadband Internet, plug in your monitor,
keyboard, and mouse, flip the power switch and go.

Green doesn’t have to make you Blue!

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I like this bumper sticker. I also like a lot of the other stickers they offer.

I wanted to confirm the quote. Found it here, as well as other sites. Take a minute to read what he says. I’m an atheist, but I still get what he is saying. The things that people claim that Christ said and did were all good things, or rather nice stories about how to live a good life and treat others. However, as we know, that is not exactly what a lot of his “followers” did. Read up on it.

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