The History Channel is not a nerd's history channel

Lately, I've been watching the History Channel. A lot. A nauseating amount, to be perfectly honest. I love watching the History Channel, especially the bits about engineering like Modern Marvels. I'm also a but of a history buff, so the History Channel and I should be a perfect fit. It's a way for me to watch TV and feel like I haven't completely wasted my time. While it doesn't always help, it's really all I've got.

So, as I was saying, I've been watching a lot of History Channel. In that time, I've realized that it doesn't really do much for a nerd's curiosity. It gives a top-level synopsis of certain events. That's really all it's made for. Most people aren't interested in that anyway. So, I watch an hour of the History Channel and spend another 3 on Wikipedia and JSTOR. It's sad, really.

So I go to Wikipedia, and just like everyone else click something slightly off-topic, and then another, and another. Somehow, I get to Batman (Comic book hero) or tapirs (browsing mammals). Really, it just goes to show that the History Channel is not doing well enough. Where's the in-depth analysis of Jesus' mistresses? How do you expect me to go without knowing whether the real-life Leonidas is as friggin' awesome as the 300 king? Oh, and I might want some more analysis of everything else with that, too.

Not that I'm picky or nerdy or any of that. Those are labels. Labels are bad.

That's what teacher tells me.

Blog Titles

I just Googled my blog title. It was kind of depressing. I used quotes, so I kind of hoped there might be a chance it'd be on the first ten pages. Not that I think anyone else reads it, I just never realized the title was so boring. It's like a naming an office building "That Place With Rooms." Well, bad example, but you know what I mean.

I got to thinking, and it was some deep thinking, because I am extremely tired, that I did that on purpose. I picked a nebulous title just so I wouldn't have to decide what my blog would be about. I could write whatever the heck I wanted, and it would still fit. I still haven't figured it out, so I write posts like this. I also realized that the entirety of this blog has been done well past my bedtime. This has led to some silliness, even though there are fewer posts than I have fingers. When I look at it that way, I have a worthless blog with an extremely high silliness to content ratio.

Hurray for me, right? I can now die a true nerd. Not that I needed the extra qualification, by any means.

I think I need a life. Either that, or more motivation to sleep at night. Somehow though, that strikes me as too easy. I mean, most people do it, right? It can't be too hard. I'm better than that. At least that's what I tell myself when my roomie goes to sleep hours before I do. It helps. Sorta.

Update: Google hasn't even indexed my blog. What do they think, countless numbers of bloggers like me don't have anything to contribute to the internet?

Alright...I'm stumped

This is from the Google Labs Aptitude Test(GLAT):

On an infinite, two-dimensional, rectangular lattice of 1-ohm resistors, what is the resistance between two nodes that are a knight's move away?

I've been told it takes Fourier Series, but I've only taken one class in electrical engineering, so I am beyond stumped. According to xkcd, I've been nerd-sniped.

This problem really is amazing. Once I was nerd-sniped, I sniped three more people with it, even though they had all read the xkcd comic and avoided the snipage. If you are lost when I say "nerd-snipe," go here: Nerd-Sniping

Take that, Blogosphere!

Some of my favorite blogs use the number of unique visitors to their blogs to compete with "rival" blogs. "My million unique hits a week beats yours!" It's kinda funny, because in the end, you realize they're just arguing over the internet. Which, according to common internet knowledge is just like winning the Special Olympics. If you don't know what I mean, call your ISP and get off the internet, you don't deserve to be here.

Well, have I got news for you! "You" is really just me, 'cause if you click on the link in the bottom left, there's only one person to ever read this blog: me! The multiple unique visitors on multiple nights are interesting issues of timing and StatsCounter settings. So Violent Acres and Tucker Max can just shove it, because they have no idea who looks at their blogs. Me, on the other hand, knows every one. First there's me, and then there are five more hits from me!

I hope anyone that randomly finds this page promptly leaves and never comes back. That would just ruin it for me, really. Posting a link to me on your blog is right out, and StumbleUpon minuses are even out of the question. I need the kind of security that comes with knowing that absolutely no one cares what I do on the internet. Uninhibited anonymity is my drug. Don't take that away from me!

I should get this shirt from the amazing minds at Despair.com, home of the Demotivators: My Blog. I would sport it with pride. And never give out my blog name.

Where do I go from here?

I hate most bloggers. Most blogs just suck, and I'm pretty sure mine won't be any different. Most bloggers can't write at all, or they write about their loser kids or their boring lives and how their boring job sucks. The ones who can write normally aren't creative, or go on ideological crusades.

I know I'm not very creative, but I can sorta write. Thing is, I'm just the kinda guy that goes on ideological crusades, making mountains out of molehills and arguing like nothing else matters. I just don't wanna be that kind of blogger.

So where do I go from here?

Hello World

This post seems almost obligatory. A blog without a hello world? Even a worthless blog without a hello world?

That would most certainly be a catastrophe.