Category: geekdom

So, I’m in the running for a door cashier gig at Club Congress…

Who would ever have guessed someday I’d have a job interview that included the question “How would you describe The Sweat Band to someone who’d never heard them?”Or that I’d get a chance to interview with a real live Sand Ruby?Oh, the glamourness of my life… “The punk rock’ll kill you if the government don’t… Continue reading So, I’m in the running for a door cashier gig at Club Congress…

Occam’s Razor

History of Occam’s Razor William of Ockham (also spelled Occam) was a Franciscan theologian born in Surrey, England, around 1285. He studied at Oxford and later at Paris. His philosophical views made him a polemic scholar. He died in Munich, Germany, around 1349. Although the general idea of the preference for simplicity is attributed to… Continue reading Occam’s Razor

Orville and Wilbur Wrong…

Thought this was a bit amusing. Perhaps the journalistic standards of the day were not so very high? And yes, I did shamelessly steal this link from Neil Gaiman’s blog, but most likely none of you would have noticed, since you don’t read it every day in spite of my ceaseless implorings.

Words I didn’t know, Part II

Exigent (adjective) [EK�sah�jahnt] 1. requiring immediate aid or action; urgent; pressing: “I understand that you’ve driven with faulty brakes for several weeks now without incident, but you don’t want to wait for the problem to become any more exigent.” 2. requiring significant effort or expense; demanding adverb form: exigently Origin: Approximately 1670; a back formation… Continue reading Words I didn’t know, Part II