December 2011
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nRd Vs gK on SAT Practice Exams
gK: I've been spending most of these holidays doing SAT Practice Exams. For fun...
nRd: And how are you fairing
gK: Well, brain power is up 34 points, happiness is at 100% and I even got three bonus life points.
nRd: How'd you do that?
gK: Go figure, XKCD was one of the problems and I solved it: http://xkcd.com/55/... it came out with the solution ♥♥♥
nRd: You did not.
gK: No, but I worked really hard and if it had been mario world I would have got bonus lives.
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“1.5sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))/((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1+abs(abs(x)-3)/(ab...”
– Go ahead, equations on google are HUGE right now.
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nRd Vs gK in Nerd or Geek Pt. 2
nRd: So, according to my recent post from "therebloggingneverends" it seems I'm way more nerdy than you.
gK: I'm just no good at math, that's all.
nRd: I also don't see any science books of yours on the shelf.
gK: That's not true. What about The Field?
nRd: I would hardly count the science of spirituality as real, hard science when I have books talking about unified field theory, the incompleteness theorem and various number theories. The nerd wins.
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People who claim that they are "nerds" but don't...
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WatchA quick update on this project! It received DOUBLE the amount it was shooting for and the crew are putting in extra efforts with attention to every detail to make it a spectacular movie! I can’t wait.
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Up and coming director Van Gorder is embarking on an ambitious and very cool project. He dubs it “a hard sci-fi action/drama shot the old fashioned way, without CGI or greenscreen.”...
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nRd Vs gK in Mini Death Star Ornaments
nRd: We need to design a Death Star ornament that has tiny explosives in it so it blows up next year when we put it up.
gK: Or we need mini X-Wing fighters to fly into the trench and blow it up.
nRd: I have a feeling the 2m wide exhaust port would be a lot lot smaller on that ornament.
gK: Yeah, it would be like micrometers, maybe even a nano-nano-meters!!! [after some calculations the exhaust valve on the Death Star ornament is actually 71.4μm... requiring a microscopic X-Wing piloted by atomic robots... perhaps nanites]
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nRd Vs gK in Nerd or Geek Pt. 1
gK: What's the different between a nerd and a geek?
nRd: I think a geek has glasses and a nerd doesn't.
gK: We're both geeks then?
nRd: Well... No. But, I wear contacts sometimes.
gK: So you're curious? Experimenting? Anyway, when I picture a geek working on a computer I can't switch the image to a nerd and still have them working on the same thing. Geeks have more creative output and nerds like to take input to grow big brains. That's the differences, glasses or not.
nRd: That's not fair, I'm creative.
gK: But by your own admittance you're experimenting. Let me know when you come to the dark side.
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Jóhann Jóhannsson: IBM 1401, A User's Manual →
Inspired by a recording of an IBM mainframe computer which Jóhann’s father, Jóhann Gunnarsson, made on a reel-to-reel tape machine more than 30 years ago, the piece was originally written to be performed by a string quartet as the accompaniment to a dance piece by the choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir. For the album version, Jóhann rewrote the entire score, and it was recorded by a sixty-piece...
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The Official Star Wars Blog →
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nRd Vs gK on Star-Fields
nRd: What movie has the best star-field?
gK: Moving or stationary?
nRd: Moving.
gK: That's a tough one, there's a lot of good ones. Star Trek II's is pretty good.
nRd: They don't show any warp speed though (from inside the ship).
gK: Actually Star Trek I has a better warp speed effect, the best ever in fact. But, they vowed they'd never do it again because it was so expensive.
nRd: How'd they do that?
gK: I'm not sure... lot's of layers of animation and lighting effects. In Star Trek II it's actually a computer simulation designed for a planetarium and they turned the camera up and filmed the effect of it. A nice feature of it is if you watch it in fast forward it actually [gK raises his arms] twists slowly [gK starts rotating his arms]. Which I thought was a really nice effect. You can't see it when it's playing normal speed but you get a feel of it, which is nice.
nRd: All that work but I think the stars are fat looking.
gK: That the only draw back. It's not perfect. I like stars that are like points.
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nRd Vs gK in Gingerbread Pac-Men
nRd: Next year I should make gingerbread pac-men.
gK: Yeah? That'll be easy.
nRd: Exactly... And I could use pac-man coloured icing to decorate them.
gK: Yellow.
nRd: Yes.
gK: And how about you put smarties around the plate for the dots.
nRd: Pac-man comes to life. What about the walls?
To Be Continued...
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