Posted: October 8, 2010
I know I haven’t been very active here recently. I’ve been chasing literary windmills. And that’s only going to get worse in November.
But I wanted to break my stone faced silence because there is an important issue that needs to be brought to the attention of the geek populace.
You may be aware that this coming Sunday is 10-10-10. That in itself sounds pretty cool. But it gets cooler when you realize that 101010 in binary is…42!
That’s right! 10-10-10 is 42 Day! Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: September 11, 2009
I haven’t gotten a chance to mention this yet, (see last post) but I got to see Bill Nye in person a couple months ago. Bill was giving a talk at nearby St. Louis University on environmental sustainability that was free and open to the public. Given such a bargain-basement price, of course we went and got there plenty early.
The coolest part about all this is that I wasn’t the only one who was excited about this (nor probably the most excited). My 7 year old stepson Johnny just about imploded with excitement when he found out.
Johnny’s a huge Bill Nye fan. He watches the Bill Nye videos and reads Bill’s books from the local library like a lot of kids his age play video games (he really likes video games, too). So Isa and I decided that it would be a good surprise to take him to this talk…of Science!
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