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Welcome to Chaos Theory 4.0
I’m thinking this new design doesn’t suck. I tried a bunch of things, but after CSS dealt me a few wicked blows to the head, I went back to cribbing from someone else and made some minor tweaks to an existing template again.
Like, I didn’t know this already…
| The Deviant Geek You answered 85% of the questions as a geek truly would. |
| You’re a geek and you know it. You’ve got all sorts of fringe hobbies and socially unacceptable tendencies. Chances are, whenever possible, you hate to be grouped with other people and sometimes go out of your way just to be different.
You’re smart too. You’re more willing to depend on your own brainpower to solve problems, instead of relying on others to pull you through life. You probably read a lot, and generally enjoy learning new things. So what’s it all mean? You may be considered by some to be uncool, but you probably don’t care either. In social situations you may be either slightly passive or slightly loud (geeks always fall into the extremes). In a nutshell, you answered enough questions correctly supporting a geek philosophy to be considered a more potent geek than 60% of the population. |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The True Geek Test written by ambientred on Ok Cupid |
Eye in the sky
I was futzing around today with Google Maps, and decided to check if I could find my old ship with the satellite imaging feature. And, two minutes later, there it was, the USS Iowa, near Benicia, California in the ghost fleet.
The Iowa Veterans Association is trying to get it transferred to San Francisco as a museum, but some politician snuck a rider into the DOD budget that moves it to Stockton, California instead. I guess it was some economic development thing, but considering how much work has been done already to move her to SF, this seems like another piece of partisan bullshit (SF being Democrat country and all).
Lab Daze
I’m doing some hardware testing today, looking at Sun’s Sun Ray 170 and one of Sun’s Linux servers in what we like to call in the biz a “solution review”. Basically, I’m running Sun JavaDesktop on a terminal–a 17″ LCD color terminal with all the trick-outs of most low-end desktop PCs.
So far, it’s been dirt-simple (once I actually got everything set up) to use. JavaDesktop is a lot like Windows, and if you spend your day in office apps, the browser, and email, it’s a pretty cost-effective way to run a small office.