How to spot a true Geek

On one of my multi-daily flicks through Slashdot there was an article on the effects of techie dress on IT, where I found this comment

I took a 20K/year pay cut just so I could wear blue jeans and sandles. Fuck that business casual crap.

Geek Pride \m/ >.< \m/

My first ever Java program

I'm so proud

//My first ever Java program. Made 28 March 2006


import java.util.Scanner;

class HighestNumber {

public static void main(String args[]){
Scanner myScanner = new Scanner(System.in);
int n1, n2, n3, n4, n5;
int highest = 0;

System.out.println("Input 5 integers");
n1 = myScanner.nextInt();
n2 = myScanner.nextInt();
n3 = myScanner.nextInt();
n4 = myScanner.nextInt();
n5 = myScanner.nextInt();

if (n1 > highest){
highest = n1;
}
if (n2 > highest){
highest = n2;
}
if (n3 > highest){
highest = n3;
}
if (n4 > highest){
highest = n4;
}
if (n5 > highest){
highest = n5;
}

System.out.print("The highest integer is ");
System.out.println(highest);
}

}

Gap year psychosis

I'm reading about the different engines in Thomas the Tank Engine (not Thomas the Tank, boy did I get a beating for saying that in my early years) while listening to Marilyn Manson's Personal Jesus.

(Those trucks are pure evil)

NEWS JUST IN: Police raid Pete Doherty's house. No drugs found.

Police are baffled.

...and another thing I hate.

People who use the word 'literally' either frequently or when they don't mean it. For example, this I found on Slashdot:

On there will be no more big thing in technology "Usually, when someone make a claim this outsized and this ludicrous, the next big thing is literally right around the corner."

'litterally right around the corner'? The next left turn I take can I really expect a nanotech assembler just sitting there?

In the words of Gof imitating Mr. T :Fool.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ALCOHOLISM DAY EVERYBODY

Don't get too ***j***g**ed now.

THERE'S AN EXHIBITION ABOUT ICELAND IN THE SCIENCE MUSEUM!!

IF YOU WANT ME I'LL BE IN LONDON!!

Bow down to your robot masters!

The robot mule

Imagine a group of these walking down the street towards you.

Watch with the sound off to add to the creepiness.

Blonde moment of the day

After cleaning up after my daily bowl of noodles I was trying to wash out the straglers from the sieve. However due to water tension or elves or something the noodles weren't washing off. I thought to myself that the task would be much easier if the noodles weren't touching the sieve and instead floating around in water.

So to put this idea in motion I tried to fill the sieve full of water.

...and another thing I hate

Sixteen year olds that say "these days".

I was reading some responses to a question on Bolt asking why all men go for girls that have fake boobs, hair, nails and anything else you can mod on your body.

First problem was the 'all men' bit, there's nothing quite infuriating as a stereotype, unless your making a joke then they can be bloody useful.

One of the responses, of which there were many as it was a featured question, was from a sixteen year old saying "I think that most guys like any type of girl they can get whether it be fake or not...not to many guys have high standards these days."

These days?

These days?!!

Your sixteen! How the hell could you know how 'standards have changed'? Were you courting when you were three?! These are your only days, the time for you to go back and stand on the moral high ground simply doesn't exist!


Sorry. I lost a bit of compsure there.

Me and Minnie

Venturing home from the local ale house last night it was my continuing observation that there hadn't been a cloud in the sky for sometime. The even standing at a motorway junction the ammount of stars visible was incredible, getting closer to my house it was an awesome sight. However beautiful the scenery above the horizontal the fact that it was at least thirty below was rapidly creaping through my clothing.

Once over the motorway slipway I easied myself into a jog hoping to warm up some trapped air in between layers and get home quicker. Barely two strides into my leapin' 'n' boundin' both of my knees clicked. I winced at the sound but then immediatly thought nothing of it.

I wake up this morning and climb out of bed (I have a bunk bed) landing on my left knee only to fall the the floor in not a little amount of pain. When I looked down to see if my left leg was still attatched I noticed that either a large rabbit was lodging subcutaneously, or my knee had put on alot of weight. It's right counterpart seemed to have taken the previous evening's nocturnal exercise rather well and so now I'm hoping around on the one leg while the left decides to bend and support some weight.

Geek chat up line of the day

Just before we all have a collective cringe I'd like to say that I didn't come up with these.

Mine are much worse.

So, without further a do:

"You had me at "Hello World.""

Today is a bad day

Today is a bad day.

Today is the day that all other bad day's will be measured against.

To start I had a wonderful dream that for some reason a part of my brain, which will now be known as Bastard, decided to wake me up from at half eight.

Next, after a couple of good weeks Project X took a massive hit today.

Then, the job I want I can't have unless someone there already dies.

And today I've never felt more alone.

Today is a bad day.

Geek chat up line of the day

"Girl, I wish I was your differential, because then I'd be touching all your curves."

Stupid moment of the week

Shaving my beard off.

I've gone from looking like a 32 year old


To looking like a six year old




My face is cold.

Geek chat up line of the day

"If you won't let me buy you a drink, at least let me fix your laptop. "

How do you know when you're spending too much time on your own?

This made my day


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