iamcal.com Since May 2000

coder girl is my new favorite song

nerd merit badges is a cool idea, but they need more. many more

not sure if this is lame or not. hmm, probably

i'm tempted to get the l33t scrabble tiles for a high nerdosity factor [via brock]

nerd distractions - a conversation in comments between warren ellis and joss whedon

super happy dev house 4 was awesome - photographic evidence

mr salt has located some excellently geeky clothing made from computer and electronics nerdery.

the googlemini seems pretty damn cool. i want one, if just for the case.

it was really only a question of time before someone tried it - ipod shuffles in a raid configuration

i usually avoid gizmodo linkage, but the keychain plants are too cool for school.

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a nice photo from back in february at etcon. who were the people in the front? stew? neb? helen?

ell found this excellent site (parodied here) which puports to allow you to talk to geek girls for $3 a minute. It's kinda tempting to give it a try next time i need some unix sysadmin assistance, though i suspect the girls might be less geeky than they claim :)

m-k-m would love this: the history of the meep. from becca

lunch today with robert scoble (microsoft), tim bray (w3c/xml) and some other geeks in vancouver. after scoble mentioned that he'd given bill a demo of flickr (woo!), he spoke about how he searches weblogs (via technorati) for microsoft product mentions, then in the case of somebody complaining about a feature, forwards a link to the person in charge of the product. i mean, wow. if you post on your weblog about some missing feature in outlook, the outlook project manager might well end up reading that. who would have thought that ms was such a responsive company?

purchased from ikea: one ice cube tray, to make small ice hearts. no girl can resist. next must formulate plan to lure ice-seeking-geek-girls into apartment.

jeff veen make the best presentations. well, maybe cerveny's are better, but veen is awsome.

what we need is more geek-oriented guides like this japanese as a programming language article

only a few days in vancouver and i find myself hoplessly addicted to jolt cola. with a seven-eleven about 10 metres from the office, i'm doomed to a sugary death. yay!

is learning pi to 1500 digits any more than an impressive (geek) party trick? would it actually be useful in a mathematical sense, or even just in a memory training sense?