Is there any gear out there for Nerds/Geeks/Gamers/Etc who run/cycle/enjoy fitness?
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posted by snapped
on May 11, 2012 -
12 answers
What should I buy my brother for his birthday?
I have a brother who's impossible to buy gifts for, and it's his birthday soon. I know the following things about him: He's a computer programmer and website designer. He loves Apple products, The Simpsons, Futurama, and XKCD. His heroes are people like Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs, and Dawkins style atheists/rationalists. He's a non-smoker and non-drinker. He's asked us not to get him a gift, but he's still my brother and I'd like suggestions for something more thoughtful than an iTunes gift card. My budget is pretty low, and he handles all his own tech shopping. Suggestions for quirky, fun or interesting gifts would be appreciated.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn
on Oct 9, 2011 -
25 answers
I'd like to explore the local web/tech nerd and geek scene in small cities and towns between San Francisco and Portland. How and where do I find the right folks?
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posted by polexa
on Aug 1, 2011 -
9 answers
I'm trying to express my love for a certain dessert in a math/logic formula.
I have this:
π > ∼π , which I take to mean "Pi is greater than not Pi", and this:
π > ∞-π, which I take to mean "Pi is greater than Everything but Pi". Do these make any sense or hold up in any legit way?
posted by TheCoug
on Mar 5, 2011 -
15 answers
Help a recovering Star Wars addict with his relapse. That is, update me on what's worth reading the Expanded Universe.
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posted by supercres
on Dec 9, 2010 -
13 answers
What is the perfect gift for a hardcore, old school Dungeons and Dragons nerd, and where can it be purchased?
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posted by EvilPRGuy
on Dec 2, 2010 -
16 answers
Looking for the full text to one of those Unix/nerd koans. This one is about text editors. All I've able to find from a half hour of googling is the "punchline" - on someones .sig on a bunch of mailing lists.
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posted by [@I][:+:][@I]
on Feb 19, 2010 -
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I have two large (10k-100k) sets of strings. I want to match the items in the sets up in pairs based on similarity. Levenshtein looks promising but costly.
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posted by chairface
on Feb 12, 2010 -
15 answers
Genuinely dumb question to waste on the brain trust here but: when nouns end in x, do you indicate possession with just a quotation mark or do you need to include the s?
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posted by christhelongtimelurker
on Jul 13, 2009 -
23 answers
I'm giving a big presentation in a couple of weeks and it has to be impressive. I have a fabulous idea for a graphic, inspired by the facebook
friend wheel, where I want to
wrap perhaps 100 words around a circle and draw lines to connect them in illustrative ways. The drawing lines part is easy, but the wrapping text around a circle part is hard (without doing it one element at a time, rotating and aligning each one just so). I *know* there's an easy way to do this, but am not quite smart enough to figure it out in omnigraffle or find another program that can do it. I can use Mac or PC. If you point me to a workable solution, you'll get your name in lights (if you wish) in addition to my unending gratitude.
posted by ezola
on Apr 21, 2009 -
12 answers
There are gay bars, lesbian bars, and leather bars. Are there "geek bars"? In geek culture, what institution, meeting, or whatever serves the purpose that "meat market" single bars do amongst the non-geeky populace?
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posted by WCityMike
on Dec 17, 2007 -
50 answers
