Domination Associate

No, he's not my minion. He's my domination associate.

Tau, an improvement on Pi

I have loved Pi for a long time.  But Vi Hart has convinced me that Tau (2 Pi) is a better way to do circle math and trigonometry.  It has all the things that make Pi wonderful, but is even simpler and easier to understand.

Happy Tau Day!

Ready Player One - awesome book

I stumbled upon the book Ready Player One at my library, and I LOVED it.  It's a veritable nerdgasm of pop culture references.  (Badass scifi author John Scalzi nailed that description.)  It's a tale of a kid in the future trying to find easter eggs in a virtual world to inherit Steve Jobs' fortune.  I mean, not Steve Jobs, "James Halliday".

At one point, there's a party where R2D2 DJ's, and a Klingon bartender serves Pan-Galactic Gargleblasters.

It's a really fun ride, with very clever nerd culture references.

Happy Picard Day!

June 16th is Captain Picard Day.  It's the day when all the children on the Enterprise create a likeness of the captain to celebrate him.  Lots of nerds of the world did the same.  This one is my favorite.

Edible zoetropes

Someone has made zoetropes that are cakes.  Wow.

Fiscal Phonies

Paul Krugman calls out the Republicans for lying about their alleged deficit concerns.  I said this ages ago, (and so did Krugman) but the current details are worth noting - Romney and Ryan, who claim to want to reduce the deficit, won't.  Republicans had no problem with deficits when a Republican was president, under Reagan or Bush.  (And they increased the debt ceiling dozens of times without controversy.)  And Romney's alleged plans to fix the problem would not fix it, but in fact make it much, much worse.

I can deal with disagreeing with someone about an issue, but they don't agree with themselves.

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

One of my favorite moments from 30 Rock.  I hadn't heard the entire song before.  I guess George from Being Human was already a man before he became a werewolf.