I am not sure how to start this, or what I want to say exactly, or who I am trying to reach. So I have decided to just start writing and see if I have anything to say. I believe strongly in Huey Lewis & the News, not really...o.k. I do like Huey Lewis, but more than Huey and the boys my life seems to be driven by science. I am an engineering student and spend my time going to classes and studying or working at the tutoring center on campus.
I have always had an interest in science, but deciding to study engineering started me on a road of being more proactive in my interest. Now I spend a lot of time reading science books and blogs or listening to the back catalog of my favorite podcast "the skeptics guide to the universe" (I highly recommend you check it out). I have also been re-watching the Cosmos series and I would like to state for the record that Carl Sagan looks like a pimp in a corduroy jacket and turtle neck sweater, a pimp with a Phd in astrophysics. I am madly in love with this show.
Ending this first blog on a geeky story, I was driving down the road the other day and I saw a vanguard logo on a mud flap. The end of the V covered the rest of the letters and made it look like the square root of anguard, my next thought was that if it's the square root of anguard you can take out the a's and be left with a(square root) of ngurd. I casually mentioned this mentioned this to a couple of friends (super geeky friends I might ad) and they said that was the geekiest story they have ever heard.
My point is that I am being told by other geeks that I am spending too much time thinking about math and I am perfectly fine with that. Sometimes things change for the better. I don't know if anyone will ever read this or future posts, but I have now filled my twenty first century social obligation by having a blog post.
-Nick
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Finally getting this thing started
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I feel better about my geekiness that I had to read it twice before I understood your "a(square root)" comment. =) Suppose my math skills aren't what they used to be when I was actively taking courses.
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