Too cool for school?

Hey, now that I'm finally ending my scholastic career, for the moment, I was wondering who all is currently in school taking classes, who has what left to finish, and what everyone has.

I know jonny got a BS from USC, and he hasn't gone back. Laith has a BS, I believe from DeVry?? Moody got his BS from Chico in Pysch. I don't know about the rest of you.

(although I do notice a lot of BS coming out of this group...)

New Zealand Countdown, 69 Hrs!!!

This is weekend is going to go very fast, I have a ton of stuff to do with school before I get to fly to NZ on Monday. But I wanted to share some of the things Jibber and I have put together for the trip, if anyone ever wants to go.

Bars and Pool in Auckland
All you can eat Sushi
SkyTower Visit
Kayak at Rangitoto
Bungy Jumping??
Poker Tournament
Northshort visit, City of Devonport
Fullsize cutout at UPS store
All Blacks Rugby Match
Zorbing, look it up :)
Black Water Rafting
Caving
Pool Competition, Ive lost my touch :(
Fly by Wire
Thermal Wonderland


There is alot there, sandwiched by a half day flight on each side. Let me know what you guys want me to bring back for ya

Stoned people not as stupid as they look

According to this study, stoned people were not any less accurate at performing tasks than sober people... they just took longer at doing it. Hence the reason you don't drive stoned, you might know which way to swerve to avoid that kid, you'll just do it when he's under that back wheels.

Of course the validity of the study leaves me wondering since the subjects were performing the "Gambling Task". Yep, they played poker just as well as they did before. Somehow I think a more reproducible test is in order, poker introduces enough randomness into the study to make it invalid in my opinion. Since everyone has different strategies, how can you judge if they are still making the "correct" moves.

Sucka for CollegeHumor.com

***First post on a blog ever***

Im not sure if this is worth sharing, but I send random weird shit I find on the web to Fisher every now and then, and I think this qualifies.



I will be sure to post a ton of pics while in New Zealand with Jibber. I fly out Monday and plan to be drunk the entire flight :) If you need me to take a picture of Jib so you guys can take it to a "UPS Store" to blow it up lifesize, let me know :)



2nd is the ultimate nature show, watch all the way through

How God Damn Expensive Will Gas Get?

I'm bitching about gas prices and I know you guys have bitches out in California have got it way worse than me. It's about $3.15 for regular out here right now which is crazy cuz last year when it was around $3 is California it was only like $2.40 out here. So I can only imagine what gas is like out there. It costs me almost $50 to fill up the Escape now and with Rachel's commute, if I fill up on Monday, I have to fill up again on Friday. I'm going broke here on fuckin gas.

I think it's time to invest in a big as electrolyzer to make Hydrogen out of water and store that shit in like a 100lb tank buried in my backyard. Then I'll buy some fancy Hydrogen electric car and never have to buy gas again. Of course if you want to go all out you can make your house run off the shit like this guy. His whole house and car all run off a solar/hydrogen combo. Of course it cost him about $500k to install but at a savings of maybe $350-$400/month (and rising) you'd pay that back in only 105 years or so.

Why I hate IE

Last few days I have ran into this a few times. I'm writing some html or javascript and it appears to be working just fine in IE but its somehow broken in Mozilla. Every time it has been because IE was just ignoring the errors in my syntax and making it work. Instead of giving me errors it just said, "Good enough, I can work with this," leading me to believe it was Mozilla that was at fault.

On a side note we should get a RSS feed :P

You know so all our subscribers can tell when we update...

Topics for Speach At Wedding

Alright, as you all know the honorable Mr. Fisher will be getting married in just a few days. He wanted me to post something on the blog so here you go...

I'm gonna have to make a speech at the wedding. So the question I pose to you is the following:

Do you guys have any embarrassing stories that I could tell about Jason, Rachel, Jason/Rachel?

I have a few up my sleeve, but I could always use some more ammo.

Post a comment and let me know of the tale and I'll see if I can somehow work it into my speech.

Heroes

So if you guys don't watch Heroes, you really should start. Of course since the season finale was yesterday you won't be catching any new episodes anytime soon. Gives you plenty of time to catch up on last season though before Season 2 starts. I've got the last 5 or 6 episodes recorded on my tivo-esque computer if you want them (High-Def). While I won't advocate thievery there are other places to find the rest of the season. And of course come August you'll be able to buy the whole season.

My only worry is that Season 2 will turn into a total fuckin waste the way Lost did. I though Lost was the greatest tv show ever after Season 1, then Season 2 comes around and all we do is punch numbers into a fuckin Apple IIe down in the hatch for 14 fuckin episodes while watching lame flashbacks every other second about what pussies they all were before they were on the island. WTF! There should be a 1 death / 3 episode rule on that island just so we have to keep guessing who will survive. Luckily that shit is getting canned in 3 more seasons, so with an end-date in sight they claim they can stop wasting episodes on nothing and start paying out the real reveals about what the fuck is going on.

So that brings me to why Heroes is actually sweet. Unlike cock-tease Lost, Heroes actually pays out real answers shortly after posing awesome questions. At most you're looking at 2 to 3 episodes of suspense. Not like Lost where I still don't know where that fuckin polar bear came from in episode 1 or 2. Amazingly, the season finale posed no real cliffhanger. They just neatly wrapped up all the lose ends from season 1 and gave a couple small hints at where season 2 is going, but no real "OMG i feel like i only watch half an episode" ending that blue-balls you for the next 5 months. So that's it, watch Heroes, enjoy.

Bachelor Party Recap

Thanks to everyone who made it out to my Bachelor Party, and also to everyone who tried to make it but couldn't, you guys missed out on an awesome time. As we all took a vow of silence I can't reminisce much, and I can't recall it all anyways. I do have a small gallery of some preparty & aftermath pics in the gallery above. Hope everyone who came had a good time and I'll see you guys at the wedding and/or at the reception. If anyone needs more details on what to wear, where to go, etc call me cuz it's coming up quick. And Jib, I still need that fullsize image of you in a green shirt & khaki shorts! ;)

Nerd blood flows through this one

Hey, this won't interest red 'cause he hates technology, but I thought I'd share this around. This is HTC Hermes, known as the Cingular 8525. I was looking at getting the 8125 for a long time and this much needed improved version came out. It's a cool phone that has office built in (can create and edit spreadsheets and word docs on the phone, then sync to pc), wifi, uses the new fast phone connectivity service coming out, and all kinds of good shite.

Anyway, it usually costs several hundred dollars but I noticed recently that Amazon had it listed for just $150 with new service or upgrade to your current cingular/att phone if you are eligible for an upgrade. I'm gonna probably get it when I return to the states (these primitive foreigners would beat me with clubs if I had this phone, claiming I was a witchy-man voodoo-daddy).

So, if you're looking for a new phone, I suggest this bad boy.
Amazon.com Cingular 8525

cheers,
jib

p.s. - since Fisher wants to limit tags, I've decided to create the ungodly 'gizmology' tag for stuff like this rather than the easier and more sensible 'tech' tag one would like to see. I hope you all suffer because of it.

Welcome Brethren

On Jib's suggestions, we now have a common blog that we are all authorized publishers on. That means you can post Nerd Herd relevant bullshit here so that we can all enjoy it. Right now it's just going to be a plain old Blogger setup, but if I find the time and motivation I'll try and get a secondary beta site going that would be a more fully-functional community page, kinda like the old Nerd-Herd.org page, only much cooler.

In the meantime, hopefully everyone does their part to make this a success. I encourage everyone to sign up for a Picasa Web Album. They're pretty sweet and since both Picasa & Blogger are owned by Google it has some pretty easy integration shit where you can just post a pic to Picasa and then "Blog It" and make a quick post about your pic. Not sure how well that functionality works with multiple people authoring a single blog, we'll find out :)