Colossal Cave meets nerd humor; this is fantastic stuff: The Mathematical Grue. Non-nerds needn’t apply. Just to give you a taste: You are sitting before a particularly thorny conjecture. Possible proofs lead away from here in several directions. > inventory You are carrying the following items: A ream of blank paper A pencil The Cauchy-Schwarz [...]
Archive for October, 2007
24 Oct
Google Gets IMAP, Cliff Discovers Synergy, Pandora
Whew! A busy two weeks, to be sure. First: the “old news”. I recently discovered the excellent open source app Synergy. Synergy “…lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their [...]
12 Oct
Life Without Google?
As a systems engineer, I pride myself on knowing “a lotta things about a lotta things”. One of the questions that I was asked in the interview for my current position was “What do you define ‘engineer’ to mean?” My response was something along the lines of, “Someone who is capable of solving the problem [...]
4 Oct
Beautiful Wooden PC
I generally try to stay away from gadget blogs, since for the most part they are high-volume, low yield time sucks – in short, they are the very reason that the mark all as read button was ever created. (Go back through any gadget blog’s archives around the time the iPhone was released and you’ll [...]
