Where the potentially gripping is rendered banal
Posted in Nerd-alert on Nov 26th, 2007
Apparently Ian’s Shoelace Site – one of the original links in the robskee.com sidebar – is the world’s number 1 shoelace-related web site. Not bad for a local. He was recently profiled in the Moorabool Leader newspaper. The article also links to a video showing how to tie the world’s fastest shoelace knot: the Ian [...]
Posted in Nerd-alert, Pics, Quickies on Oct 28th, 2007
Robskee’s head, nose and fingertips have been buried in the Commonwealth Department of Finance and Administration’s (2002) Style manual for authors, editors and printers, 6th edition, John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. Perhaps not surprisingly, the little nerd has found it absorbing reading, despite its total lack of discussion of coffee or cheese.
Robskee will be [...]
Posted in Nerd-alert, Pics on Mar 31st, 2007
Perhaps not as mesmerizing as Cheddarvision, yet it is my own small corner of cyberspace:
The view from SHED-CAMâ„¢
In these actual stills from Shed-camâ„¢ you can see bags of raw coffee beans on the shelf, as well as my trusty coffee roaster. What else is a shed for if not for roasting coffee beans?
Shed-camâ„¢ operates sporadically [...]
Posted in Nerd-alert, Timesink on Nov 7th, 2006
As reported today in the Sydney Morning Herald (thanks KJ) the world’s hardest Sudoku has been uploaded to a players’ forum on sudoku.com.
The puzzle — known as “AI Escargot” or “AI Etana (Snail)” — was created by Arto Inkala and it looks a little something like this:
Here’s a blank Sudoku grid you can copy the [...]
Posted in Nerd-alert on Nov 4th, 2006
The buying-of-next-year’s-diary time is once again upon us and, as some of you may know, I usually go through much anguish as I review how this last year’s diary has performed and as I try to predict which–if any–of my diary-based needs will change in the year to come.
No real anguish this year. I’m still [...]
