Science nerds across the U.S.A., it’s that time of year again: the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
This year the party is going down in sunny San Diego, California — no impenetrable banks of snow, face-numbing temperatures, or nasty salty crust all over my pants, thanks very much.
Since you’re a nerd, though (who else would read this blog?) you already knew about the meeting. But if you’re not familiar, it goes something like this… (more…)
You want to be awesome at something nerdy? Simply follow my Five-Step Program to Awesome™:
Take, for instance, building computers:
I built this very machine on which I type from a hodgepodge of parts, starting about two years ago.* (true nerds can click here) Everything was “cool” until about October of last year, when a vexing problem presented itself:
At seemingly random times, the damn thing would freeze up, repeat a fraction of a second of audio that was playing for about a minute, and then carry on as if nothing had happened. And freeze up again a random increment of time later.
Right up until this past weekend, this was life at the Dave Mosher bachelor pad, and a crushing blow to my nerdish psyche. In my family, I am the unofficial technology guru. The super dork. The ultra geek within your bloodline that you call when you’re too broke (or thrifty) to even consider hiring a gun to fix that wickedly complex pile of doped silicon, whirring motors and glowing beeping delicate thingies. And here there I was, confounded by my own electron-infused baby.
Something awesome, however, saved the day… (your cue to keep reading) (more…)
If Bing is trying to sneak away Google’s share of nerds’ favorite means to search the ‘net, I have to say that they’re doing a great job.
Check this out, from a few days ago:
Io, the most volcanically active anything in the solar system, as the home page background? +5 nerd points.
