it has come to my attention that the temperature has been reaching record highs over the course of the past several days. i’ve overheard a number of conversations, wherein the participants exchange statements expressing their disgust, frustration and uncomfortableness regarding said weather conditions. i, however, being a very pale, white nerd, can offer a...
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these fellow nerds would have certainly been my friends in high school. Tweet
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from wikipedia: geek: a peculiar or otherwise odd person, especially one who is perceived to be overly obsessed with one or more things including those of intellectuality, electronics, gaming, etc. nerd: a person who passionately pursues intellectual activities, esoteric knowledge, or other obscure interests. furthermore, it is commonly believed that nerds are socially awkward,...
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it appears this blog has fallen victim to slight neglect and has suffered from a long interval between posts. to my faithful readers, i send my deepest apologies. the fact is, there hasn’t been much to blog about in the life of leonard the coffee nerd. last weekend, there was a halo 3 tournament...
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1. partial differential equations2. brew nerds coffee, duh.3. www.wired.com.4. open source anything. 5. all manner of robots.6. rubik’s cube (and each of it’s 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations).7. iStuff. iPods, iPhones, iPhotos, iMacs, and so on…8. nerds. Tweet
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after an unfortunate incident involving the destruction of my current pocket protector, i turned my attention to the world wide web, where i was certain i could find a suitable replacement. i happened upon this site, and knew that it must be shared with fellow nerds everywhere. it should come as no surprise, that...
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A Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. -Paul Erdos Tweet
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there’s a myriad of reasons why the iphone is an amazing feat of technology. some are plainly obvious, while others can only be realized by the approximately 5,000,000 extraordinarily intelligent iphone users in the galaxy. the iphone does not have an actual keyboard, rather a virtual keyboard that is generated on the touch screen....
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or more accurately, happy 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491298336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021… day! today (3/14) is pi day. for your reading enjoyment, here are some interesting factoids:1. pi represents the relationship between a circle’s diameter and its circumference.2. pi is an irrational number.3. pi has been calculated to over 1 trillion decimal places (via computer).4. the symbol for pi was first...
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