Bored Mind

This guy has hit the nail rigth on the head.  This article is perfect at descriping how a nerd thinks and why he thinks the way he does.  If you are a nerd, date a nerd or are friends with a nerd you should read this article.  

In fact, read all of this guys articles on nerds, they are perfect and right on. 

Before you invest (or waste) hundreds and thousands of hours on a language, you should deconstruct it. During my thesis research at Princeton, which focused on neuroscience and unorthodox acquisition of Japanese by native English speakers, as well as when redesigning curricula for Berlitz, this neglected deconstruction step surfaced as one of the distinguishing habits of the fastest language learners.

The Windows boot-time backlash is in full effect. BIOS-builder Phoenix Technologies is introducing a mini operating system called HyperSpace that can boot up in seconds in place of Windows, to run e-mail managers, web browsers and other apps. Such a system could prolong battery life by 50%, and would give laptop makers a chance to show off their own personalities, rather than act as mere vessels to the Microsoft experience. 

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Rob and I went as zombies to this years CSC Halloween dance. Check out the pictures of our amazing costumes. It took us longer to put it all together than we spent at the dance.

Pictures from the 2007 Pumpkin Festival in Keene NH.  LOTS AND LOTS of pumpkins!  25,000+

A cool little page, generated using Profilactic. It keeps track of all of my online social network doings. Kind of cool if you want to stalk me, or are interested in the service at all.

If you are moderating your caffeine intake - it’s worth noting that most diet soft drinks have as much (or sometimes even more) caffeine than their sugar-filled counterparts.

Diet Coke in particular has 30% more caffeine than regular Coca-cola.

Here is a list of the most caffeinated diet soft drinks.

This is really cool. This guy put a small camera on his cat that took pictures ever few minutes and then let the cat do whatever it is cats do. The page describes how he made the camera and scroll to the bottom for links to the pictures the cat took. It’s really cool to see what the cat does each day, and a little surprising all the things he sees.