Tag: internet

Ever want­ed to cre­ate a Mon­dri­an, but been too lazy to even open pho­to­shop and draw some black lines and paint-buck­et in some pri­ma­ry colours???
Well, nev­er fear, just vis­it Mon­dri­an Ran­dom­iz­er, and you too can have abstract art.

While search­ing the net for a list of the SI pre­fix­es I found this, not only is the first mnemon­ic very fun­ny, the rest of the sight looks like the thing any true geek should mem­o­rise for when try­ing to chat up a chic at a dance… or some­thing.
Physics Mnemon­ics
Oh, and for the record the ones i was look­ing for are, kilo- (k), mega- (M), giga- (G), tera- (T), peta- ℗, exa- (E), zetta- (Z), yot­ta- (Y)
Can’t you just wait to have a 2 ZHz com­put­er with a 64 ZB hard dri­ve and 256 Eb of ram?
And accord­ing to Moore’s Law (well, sort of) this sort of com­put­er will be avail­able in 2061. But as my Death­clock says I wont see out 2047, the best com­put­er I can hope for is 2 EHz, 64 EB hard dri­ve, 256 PB of ram.

Well, I’ve opened a Guest­book. Not sure if its of any use to any­one, per­haps a good spot for gen­er­all com­ments about the site and the blog that don’t real­ly fit as a com­ment to a spe­cif­ic entry???
Any­way, its there, use it how­ev­er you like.

Okay, I could­n’t help myself, I saw the phrase Galac­tic toss mon­key over at Alan’s blog and just had to help out. By now the orig­i­nal premi­sis is no longer true, but then that was the whole point.

Pre­sent­ing: The Ten-Minute Two Tow­ers.

If you ain’t heard about it before you might want to check out Home­s­tar Run­ner, he’s a fun­ny guy. And if you ain’t got time for that then at least check out his good friend Strong Bad.