Man, Pat Sajak Must Be Ticked!
I will say this for working with a bunch of geek fellow travelers: you learn a lot of interesting things during lunchtime conversations, such as the fact that Monty Hall has a probability problem/"paradox" named after him.
The problem, simply stated, is that contestants on Let's Make a Deal! have a 2/3rds probability of [...]
The Heights Of Human Weirdness Know No Upper Bounds
Have you ever wanted to embed a server in the corpse of a frog, wire up the frog's legs so that said server can activate said frog's leg muscles via a galvanic reaction, suspend the whole affair in a tank of mineral oil, hook the server up to the Internet, allow users to activate the [...]
Is It Too Late To Change My Major?
1) I didn't realize that there's such a thing as "explosives engineering"
2) I didn't realize that some universities offer minors in said engineering field
3) I didn't realize that one of those unis has an explosives summer camp, which is more boom-y than regular camp, I'll wager.
Laser Light Shows Are For Pansies
Real men don't do laser light Floyd shows. They use a Tesla coil to play the Tetris theme song and the Super Mario Brothers' "underground theme":
It's A Veritable Periodic Table Of Geekery
Presenting: Every Mythbusters Myth on one page, helpfully color- and letter-coded for your perusal.
Note the vast number of "busteds" and the relatively small number of "confirmeds". That ratio seems about right from my viewing of the show.
WARNING: Do Not Download Toribash
If you acquire Toribash, there is a very good chance that you will lose sleep. You have been warned.
At heart, Toribash is a turn-based physics-intensive ragdoll simulator, which might not sound too interesting until you realize that you've been given the keys to a whole series of devastating fighting game moves that put Mortal Kombat [...]
