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NerdFest 2008

Wyatt Fuller — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:49:21 +0000

As the Birthday weekend continues Jenni, Ian, Chris and I went to see Jonathan Coulton in concert last night. It was a total Nerdfest and we guys loved it. I think Jenni might have had a little fun too…maybe.

You have to love being at a show where the singer asks “Who here loves math?” and the crowd go crazy.

Here are some videos of my favorite songs from the show as the pictures I took were awful. I didn’t get “re: Your Brains” because I forgot to recharge my batteries.

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Chris will have better pictures I promise you.

I really couldn’t have picked a better group to go with me. Thanks guys.

Visual Studio 2008

Wyatt Fuller — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:16:33 +0000

Today Visual Studio 2008 was released. I am now downloading iso for all of them. I am very excited about continuing my .net education. Right now I have completed my very first .net web app. A simple picture uploader that generates a thumbnail and saves the pic in the appropriate folder. Soon I will convert all of wyattf.com into a .net site and then I will tackle rewriting my content editor.

Thanks to Chris for the heads up

The Nerd Handbook

Wyatt Fuller — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:27:49 +0000

The Nerd Handbook

Anybody who knows me needs to read this article. Here is an excerpt :

Understand your nerd’s relation to the computer. It’s clichéd, but a nerd is defined by his computer, and you need to understand why.
First, a majority of the folks on the planet either have no idea how a computer works or they look at it and think “it’s magic”. Nerds know how a computer works. They intimately know how a computer works. When you ask a nerd, “When I click this, it takes awhile for the thing to show up. Do you know what’s wrong?” they know what’s wrong. A nerd has a mental model of the hardware and the software in his head. While the rest of the world sees magic, your nerd knows how the magic works, he knows the magic is a long series of ones and zeros moving across your screen with impressive speed, and he knows how to make those bits move faster.
The nerd has based his career, maybe his life, on the computer, and as we’ll see, this intimate relationship has altered his view of the world. He sees the world as a system which, given enough time and effort, is completely knowable. This is a fragile illusion that your nerd has adopted, but it’s a pleasant one that gets your nerd through the day.

Thanks to Chris for sending me this