Just reviewed my machine enthusiast post of last week and remembered that statistically there’s at least 1 person geekier than me in this building. Now, I was counting on there being several but JB shot that idea down with his frankly pathetic 93% score. However, somebody nearby may just qualify.
Then I started to think further about this and realised that a research group is not representative of the normal population and the test itself is flawed in it’s overall level of granularity. Sometimes “I think I think too much” as Paul Simon sagely said many years ago.
Month: January 2007
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The Nixer from Hell
I thought I’d taken on a few of these in my time but no, I’ve seen it all now.. Thanks to Brian (aka Doggs) for this link. This guy just wants a Win32 compliant Operating System that has all the features of Windows but is better. He’s willing to pay a whole 3k for it. Now, it’s gotta be a joke right?? Thing is, the project creator has done/faked sincerity so well that some of the bidders actually seem serious and see no reason to spend the whole 3000 dollars. I know that contract programming is cheaper in India but this is frankly ridiculous. So I’ve decided I could do the project. My win32 compliant OS will unfortunately only support the Gaisan MysticCore ™ Virtual Machine which mysteriously turns bytecode that appears to be repetitive gibberish into meaningful instructions for the Gaisan MysticAL processor. The OS he can have for free, the Virtual Machine will be 50 million dollars and the processor will be 10 times that 🙂
I’m pretty sure there are other companies out there looking for a Win32-compliant OS to replace the mess that is windows. Microsoft for starters…
I constantly argue that an enthusiasm for machines (computers, cars, watches, rockets etc.) and how they work makes me curious rather than nerdy. Unfortunately thanks to a link from JB I can confirm the horrible truth. Despite all the attempts to branch out, be an entrepreneur (LOL) I’m a geek. Unfortunately, I’ve more interest in maths & mechanics than I have in computers at the moment. I guess it’s a growing sense of ennui as each new development fails to deliver on the promise of easy application development and instead creates a new language to learn or a new toolset. Some days it seems great, others I feel like I’m an aging practitioner of a dying and arcane art. I remember reading Doug Coupland’s book Microserfs and thinking that nerds just weren’t supposed to grow up.
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Me & Wii
As one of the co-workers Paul Watson mentions in his post on the Nintendo Wii I’d can confirm that it is AMAZING fun. For a compulsive gadget-buyer it’s an absolute must. It’s much cheaper than the 700+ quid (and still officially unreleased) PS3 and while it’s graphics are admittedly a bit more basic, it’s great fun. The motion sensitive controllers are nothing short of brilliant. The responsiveness could be improved but their sensitivity to delicate movement is very impressive in the tennis and boxing games that come with the Wii. Thanks to my old friend Kristian Walsh of ByteForm & TSSG for giving us the demonstration and taking such a pummeling 🙂