Posts Tagged ‘nerd’

Entry 0056

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Short entry tonight…
Thursday the guys and I went to Quarks, got our party on. Had a Warp Core, was tasty. The waitress was rubbish, hopefully I won’t have her the next time I go. Ended up spending money I probably shouldn’t have on a toy of the Enterprise (1701- no bloody A, B, C or D) but I’m happy with my purchase so it’s not a big deal.

Have been kicking around the idea of a Mini for the living room. It’d be nice to have a media center hooked up to the TV, to do double duty as a media server and a torrent work-horse. We’ll see, might end up getting it next week end. Trying to hold off on any Apple purchases until after the 9th though, as I’m expecting some cool shit from Jobs at the WWDC.

Another thing I’ve been thinking about buying, and probably will do, is a guitar. I’ve often wanted to learn to play and I figure now is as good a time as any to actually start trying. I know I want an electric, not some bloody acoustic. I want to learn to play good riffs, the kind of shit that Queen did, the kind of stuff that made Hendrix a god, the only kind of guitar hard enough to make Dios songs of rainbows and magic and shit sound hardcore… That’s what I want to play.

I wanna wail, ya know? Not rock but WAIL.

So, erm, yeah.

Nerd side, added the twitter feed back. Will get around to tweaking the font size shortly – I know it’s rather small, but until I can figure out just how many “tweets’ it’ll show I’ve gotta keep them small for space reasons. I’ll get it all sorted out shortly.

Entry 0040

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Nerdcred.com
I need help figuring out what this says.

0×62 0×65 0×74 0×74 0×65 0×72 0×20 0×72
0×65 0×63 0x6f 0×67 0x6e 0×69 0x7a 0×65

It’s driving me nuts… I thought it might be hex, but it doesn’t seem to be.

Ideas?

Entry 0035

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Was going to write a rather wordy post on some nerdy subject, but as the day has gone by here at The Office, things just didn’t align that way. (more…)

Entry 0019

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Warning: Nerd Content to Follow
I can feel the power of Steve Jobs’ RDF (Reality Distortion Field) kicking in, even as I type.

It’s been just under 24 hours since the “announcement” of the iPhone SDK (software development kit), and I’m still rather excited about the possibility to craft my own apps for the little bundle of joy.

The only problem? I don’t know the language.

One of the key features of Mac OS Leopard was the fact that it came with super easy to use developer tools. When I upgraded from Tiger, I put those tools on my laptop with the intention of creating some pretty kick-ass software. Then I started up the toolset, and weeped.

I could – almost – handle the little example apps they included with everything. I could sort of follow how the code flowed, and had a slight inkling of what was going on within each statement. Objective C isn’t that different from C++, a language I had a grasp on in high school. Yet, it still somehow managed to scare the piss out of me.

When all was said and done, and I did my first “test” of Time Machine (by wiping the drive and recovering data), I didn’t put the dev tools back. I knew that I was beaten.

I figure the same thing will happen with the iPhone SDK: I’ll get my grubby hands on it, tinker with the example code, get myself completely confused, and then give up.

Which is sad, as I see the things that others are able to knock together and I wish I could do the same.

Maybe a quick run to Borders a copy of X Code 3 for Complete Fucking Retards is in order.