Things I Know I Know

I am a Speaker to Geeks....

According toThudfactor: The Polygeek Test my geek percentage is 46%.

You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.

Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.

You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You'll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!

Geek [to You]: I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!

You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

Frighteningly, I actually do have this kind of job. And occasionally have conversations just like the one above.

Posted by debco at 09:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Crows can use tools.

I wish the several thousand who hang out in the trees outside my house would hare off and build a village somewhere.

Posted by debco at 08:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

...so say a team of Australian scientists who according to a WiredNews article, Was Einstein Wrong?, have proposed that the speed of light may not be a constant.

It's the nature of physics to change--Newtonian properties, quantum physics, waves, particles. Some of the explanations scientists claim, are elegant, but some of them are just plain messy and give us clear evidence that there is more to the universe than we have yet discovered.

Posted by debco at 08:47 PM | Permalink