The Aesthetics and Beauty of Knowledge
Shih was the opposite of facts and raw information; shih was the elegance of knowledge, the insight and skill to organize knowledge into meaningful patterns. As an artist chooses colours or light to make her pictures, a master of shih chooses textures of knowledge – various ideas, myths, abstractions, and theories – to create a way of seeing the world. The aesthetics and beauty of knowledge – this was shih.
– David Zindell, The Broken God, 1993
Geek Attitude
The attitude thing is about flexibility, portability, creativity, sociability and jamming (ran out of suitable “ity” words!). It’s about improvising – in the practical and musical senses of the word; not getting tangled in boundaries and the “right” way to do things.
Definitely the only way to travel.
– Martin Delaney – “Laptop Music”.
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Geekiest marriage proposals of all time
Nice post on NetFlash. Here are more than 20 marriage proposals that are beyond the capacity of ordinary men. The best suggestions are in the comments; I like this one (by Hannibal Tabu): My wife proposed at sunrise overlooking a great view, and had a friend dressed in a Darth Vader costume bring up the […]
Nerds & Geeks: An Etiological History and its Psychosocial Implications
Again some discussion about the Geek-Nerd dichotomy. Some earlier post on this subject are here and, especially, here on this blog. Now the WikiVersity has started a serious research page on the subject: What is a nerd? What is the spectrum of “nerd-ness”? What are the core nerd personality traits? How did this identity originate? […]
Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom centered around two roommate Caltech geniuses – experimental physicist Leonard Hofstadter and theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper – and Leonard’s and Sheldon’s equally geeky and socially awkward co-workers and friends Howard Wolowitz, an Aerospace engineer and a non-PhD from JPL, and Rajesh Koothrappali, a particle astrophysicist postdoc also […]
Geek Anthems
Searching Google for “Anthem”, for a post at another blog of mine, I stumbled on several videos with “Geek Anthems”. First: J Bevs-Geek Anthem. It’s a beautiful world live a simple life ain’t really no gangsta live the geeky life yeah i rep the south where the beats are tight and the temp is warm […]
Geek Stuff
This is a kind of “What’s in my Bag?”- post. Tonight I’ve quickmarked some of my gadgets for the Tales of Things-project. My E-Reader (I wrote about that on my RL-Blog in Dutch), my LiveScribe-smartpen, my Samson Go-Mic, my external HDD and my HTC Desire. After labeling them I uploaded the tales to the Tales […]
LiveScribe
Last week I bought my Livescribe Pulse 4G! Now I’ll never miss a Word while taking notes 🙂 I didn’t have much time yet to play around with it, but I made a MindMap of the article “Astronomy and particle physics race to replace Standard Model“, that I uploaded to my “myLifescribe”-account. Unfortunately I accidentallly […]
Zotero
Zotero “Research, not re-search” is a cloud-based storage solution for PDFs, images, web snapshots, and any other files attached to your Zotero personal and group libraries. Zotero File Storage allows you to access your Zotero-attached files from any computer with a web browser, and you can synchronize these files to any computer with Zotero installed. […]
Mobile Notetaking apps
Last month LifeHacker had a High Five about the best Mobile Note Taking Tool. Always interesting. I think the golden days of my Moleskine notebooks and indexing the information will soon be over 🙁 As expected, Evernote won, with 45,5%. Okay, I use Evernote too, and it’s pretty complete (which also may be a little […]
Some Geek Pictures
I’m in the process of rethinking the design of this website. I like the current theme very much, but it has a few stubborn nuisances. But: another theme means: another banner, and another banner means: doing some personalizing with graphics. The point is: I’m not very good with graphics, so I usually try to find […]
Droid X promo
Via: Geek.com Verizon Wireless unveiled a Droid successor dubbed the Droid X at a New York event last Thursday, the day before the iPhone 4 launch.The press conference was pretty much smooth sailing except for the Verizon PR staffers rudely preventing a Silicon Valley Insider journalist from filming a size comparison between the Droid X […]