I’m Geeking Out.

June 26, 2010 - 5pm

Here, read this. It’s fucking amazing.

Read the May 6 original before the two top-posted updates.

It’s incredible that:

  • Anything designed built in the 70′s and launched into space is still functional.
  • NASA has the ability to debug a computer that’s nearly fourteen fucking billion miles away.
  • They can do it at the bit level.
  • They have an identical computer they can test their changes on.
  • And they can fix it.

It’s easy to dismiss NASA’s achievements in the 60′s and 70′s as quaint relics–pieces of a publicity war fought against a cold-war adversary.  A cell phone is a supercomputer compared to the computers that landed man on the moon.  When I see the perfection of work like this, it’s a testament to what the human race can accomplish.

Huh.  Apparently I wrote this in May and then never actually published it.  Whoops.

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Poetry Splam

June 21, 2010 - 10am

Just got this at my work email account.  It would seem that spambots have begun dabbling in poetry.

(grave the sentence deep) and the air is filled that she passes through

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