By CyberLizard on Sep 2, 2009 in cool shit, events, fun, gaming, geekery, geekyness, pure awesomeness, science fiction | 8 Comments
Dragon*Con has snuck up on me like a kitteh ninja. I am completely unprepared. And there’s a major change in plans: the Goddess and the lizardlings are staying home. I’m going all by my lonesome. So if you see a dumpy geek with scraggly facial hair wandering around looking lonely it’s probably me. Actually, that [...]
By CyberLizard on Aug 20, 2009 in cool shit, geekyness, science | 10 Comments
Talk about a no-brainer: it weighs a kilogram, duh! Ah, but it’s not as simple as that. For time, it’s easy to figure out. The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom (official BIPM [...]
By CyberLizard on May 6, 2009 in LEGO, cool shit, geekery, geekyness, video | 0 Comments
How is it possible that I missed this?!? This is my new favorite video EVAR!!! Al Yankovic is a GOD and jrdmovimkr can totally be Jesus for this kick-ass video!
By CyberLizard on Mar 11, 2009 in computers, cool shit, geekery, geeks, geekyness, pure awesomeness | 1 Comment
… and I don’t care who knows it.
I. want. this. system.
24 256GB SSDs RAID6TB storageCustom 800Mhz FBDIMM RAM (4GB)2 quad core QX9775 processors
2GB/second data transfer!!!!11!!1!!eleventyone!!1!Opens MS Office (ALL of MS Office) in 0.5 seconds
*drools all over keyboard*
My first thought after watching this: I want to see Linux on this motherfucker!
I love you, Geekologie
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random thoughts and [...]
By CyberLizard on Feb 11, 2009 in XKCD, geekyness, weird thoughts | 0 Comments
Well, I might be, but this proves that I’m not the only one who thinks about these things (I can’t figure it out, either )
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random thoughts and other useless ephemera from the brain of the CyberLizard
By CyberLizard on Feb 4, 2009 in bloggers, geekyness, weather | 0 Comments
There is an amazing wealth of subjects out there to be geeky about. For a small subset of geeks, asking about the weather isn’t just making small talk; it’s an invitation to launch into a detailed analysis of the “thermodynamic properties of tornadic and nontornadic RFDs.” Um, okay… I’m sure that makes sense to someone [...]
By CyberLizard on Dec 18, 2008 in RPGs, Wil Wheaton, gaming, geekery, geeks, geekyness | 0 Comments
I’m a geek. About this fact we are all in agreement. But sometimes I feel like I’m failing in upholding the standards and values of true geekdom. Wil Wheaton is a geeks-geek who has never lost the faith. I got re-hooked onto his blog recently and this article he did about [...]