Showing posts with label I'm a nerd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I'm a nerd. Show all posts

Saturday, August 23, 2008

xkcd - a comic for the rest of us

I found this comic online. It's a "webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language. How is this not perfect for the geek in me?

Here's a sample:

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Getting my rock on

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the latest addition to my nerd collection: a specimen of cinnabar on dolomite. Cinnabar is the red crystal and the dolomite is the white rock. Cinnabar's chemical composition is HgS - Mercury Sulfide - which means it's poisonous. This means that despite the fact that the specimen looks like strawberries and cream does NOT mean that it is edible.

Do you like it?