Today’s nerd word is “stereopticon”

ENTRY # 55 It seems, shortly after human beings figured out the here and now was not always the greatest place to be, they devised ways to make believe they were elsewhere. Before the holodeck, before DVD, before movies (but after books) there was the stereopticon. The stereopticon was one of the first stabs at a virtual 3D world. A simple device really. It works with the basic understanding that …

Today’s Nerd word is “lurk”

ENTRY # 54 Lurking, in common usage does not connote good things. It brings to mind visions of monsters in the shadows waiting to leap out at you. Maybe that’s just me, but those are my issues. Still, there is a place where it is a good thing to lurk. Nay, even encouraged. Within the context of an online chat’these are sort of virtual meeting spaces where people can shoot …

Today’s nerd word is “cyberspace”

ENTRY # 53 In 1984, William Gibson published a book called “Neuromancer”. In which he created cyberspace. It was A new universe, a parallel universe created and sustained by the worlds computers and communication lines . . . The tablet become a page become a screen become a world, a virtual world . . . A common mental geography, built, in turn, by consensus and revolution, canon and experiment . …

extreme noh

ENTRY # 52 Ping Pong + Matrix + Crazy Japanese dudes = Funny as hell from Dan Skwara comments fivecats, fivecat@nc.rr.com, http://www.livejournal.com/users/fivecats, , 157.98.71.16, 1057949869, 2004-05-16 20:41:17, Very, very funny. Im sure its already sucking up bandwidth where I work from all of the people Ive forwarded the link to. Where/how did you find it? … Elouise, ero@it.rit.edu, 24.24.41.238, 1057959513, 2004-05-16 20:41:17, Was the away message from one of my …

meeting someone nude

ENTRY # 51 Liz Lawley just come back from SuperNova. When I asked her about meeting her blogger friends IRL she said it was overwhelming. To which I replied, “Kinda like meeting someone you drew nude at a church social.” Yeah. Just like that. So as a prequel to her post, let me explain the metaphor. It aint. It happened. I’m at a Mormon church social under duress with my …

Today’s Nerd Word is “Robot”

ENTRY # 50 We’ve got plenty of robotical archetypes from which to choose– from Robbie, to Data, to Arnold (who, by the way, is back). Sci fi aside, we’ve got robots now and they’ve been around for a while. A robot can be defined as a programmable, self-controlled device consisting of electronic, electrical, or mechanical units. More generally, it is a machine that functions in place of a living agent” …

The Attack of the superior feminist (reprise)

ENTRY # 49 At Alas a Blog, Bean writes counterpoint to Joan Ryans Attack of the Girly-Girls in which she says that young women today have lousy role models, and is concerned that this generation is ending up vacuous (although nicely but scantily dressed). I HAVE BEEN WORRIED lately about the possibility that todays young women are not taking themselves seriously enough. I base this on extensive, first-hand examinations of …

how you doin’?

ENTRY # 48 How does one measure time? I count the days ’til the end of summer. That’s one. I measure it in jobs, projects and deadlines. Thats another. In quarters, terms, semesters. Those units are interchangeable. They merely rotate. I measure it in my children. Ah! Thats what really makes the tick tock. I measure it in baby teeth, and motor skills (pincer grip graduating to hold a cup). …

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