Geek-it

Mention vet insurance to a gang of rottweiler-wielding thugs who care little for law and order and you may wish you hadn’t. Similarly, If you mentioned the word ‘ginger’ back when I was at school, apart from receiving a sound instant thrashing, you would be thought of from that point on as a ‘ginger lover’. That wasn’t something that you really wanted. Being a ginger lover meant many things, all of them awful: it meant having to watch your back constantly, being called a ginger lover by everyone all the time, and even being made to sit with the ginger children at lunch–or face doom at the hands of the bigger kids. It wasn’t until three years or so later that I realized something profound: the ginger kids who had been picked upon also had a special quality that had gone over my head at the time–They were intelligent, good at maths, and had pipe-cleaner limbs that made them look bendable as balloon animals (they weren’t as bendable, but the bullies persisted and to look at them you’d have thought they were). And that was the day–That was when I heard the word ‘Geek’ for the first time–

Of course, times have changed since then, and the word Geek is now as well used as any other. Nowadays Geeks are welcomed, regardless of hair-colour. In fact, some schools are packed full of only geeks. Strangely, those who don’t possess pipe-cleaner limbs and a freakish ability to do calculus with no calculator are the ones who feel ostracized!

For those of you who have a camera phone one thing you can attest to is the fact the pictures most of these devices take leave much to be desired. I hear what you are saying, “but it has 4 megapixels?” well it can have all the megapixels it wants, the picture it takes will still amount to any old ordinary digital camera. All of this is about to change and if you have not yet heard about it keep an eye out for the InVisage QuantumFilm Chip. If fact write it down somewhere as your camera’s picture performance is promised to be so much better.

The QuantumFilm is a technology that makes use of semiconductor particles to attract an increased amount of light to the sensor than what you will find with a silicon sensor. In fact the developers claim that close to 95% of light will be captured and this compares well with those silicon chips that take in only 20% of light. What this translates to is that the picture quality will be far sharper and superior to what you get with an average camera phone. The dynamic range will also be improved.

So what you have here is a chip that will give you better than a camera quality picture. In fact what you may find is that your mobile phone may also end up replacing your digital camera.

Soon it is expected that all mobile phones will be using this chip set because users right now want to be able to take far better photos with their phone.

The challenge for the makers will be the overall cost of this chip set if they are able to do this then these chips could be available to the masses very soon.

One last thing, I was talking with my mate last night and he reckons that in the economic slowdown lots of firms are turning towards corporate event london to hearten the staff. I don’t really know how I feel about this, I mean it’s a likable concept but it is never going to stimulate people as much as a nice big check is it?

Geeks: up until last night I was fairly confident that the Geek would remain unevolved for the next million years. (By ‘unevolved’ I mean that the Geek reached its maximum state of evolution around a hundred years ago, and that this type of human hasn’t changed since, because it hasn’t needed to). But what happened last night changed my mind. What I saw in the pub was that the Geek race has taken a massive step forward (or backward, depending on how orthodox your views on Geekism are). What I saw, no less, was a MUSCLE-BOUND GEEK. He was sitting with a squadron of geeks, seemingly accepted as one of them–

When I think Geek I think hair loss, advanced Alegbra, a face that could bore a battleship in to sinking, and an ability to hypothesize things which mere mortals would never even dream of. But this Geek was different! He clearly worked out, had a thick head of hair and was adorned in clothes which (most worryingly) enabled him to fit in with the rest of the lower I.Q. society. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that had he been Geekless friendless I probably wouldn’t have ever suspected he had his roots in Geekism. It was an astonishing and frightening development: it was the day I realized that Geeks were coming one step closer to ruling the world and there is nothing I can do about it.

I wouldn’t normally mind the thought of Geeks running the world, but here’s the thing: it just seems unfair a Geek can be super intelligent and also better looking than me! But I guess I will have to learn to live with it. I saw another today, and this time it was a beautiful girl!

Spore is an interactive PC game that allows users to create and evolve their choice of creatures. There are plenty of options to choose from at every stage of the game, with some stages less intriguing than others. Spore shares a lot in common with other life-based games, such as The Sims, and it rarely offers anything groundbreaking.

You begin the game where life on Earth began: with single-celled organisms. Here, the tedium and the need for patience is required. To evolve your single-celled creature, you must feed either on other water-based creatures or on microscopic plant life. Sooner than you’d think, your creature will have become a carnivore, herbivore, or an omnivore, all of which determined on what you chose to eat in the early stages. What is bothersome about this monumental evolutionary step is that you cannot change your dietary needs after it has been chosen; therefore if you want to be an omnivore but you only ate plant life, you will be forced to be an herbivore for the rest of the game. The only option is to quit and start a new game.

After your creature has evolved a bit, you will have a variety of attributes, all determined by the previous evolutionary path. Here is where it gets complicated, as you must figure out a way of becoming a land animal.

The game allows you to evolve your character in many ways, including your family size and their traits, learning communication techniques, establishing a civilisation, which will lead to the next inevitable evolutionary step: military and government, which in the case of the former must be very strong in order to be successful in the game.

The ultimate goal of your character is to explore the galaxy and establishing off-world colonies by means of terra-forming.

There is definitely a feeling of tedium when playing this game. Many of the stages of evolution are boring at best, and at the end of a surprisingly long game, there is no sense of accomplishment.

I was doing a few things online the other day and I came across a website covering skin peels. Now I should point out that this is something I have never even chew over before this moment, but upon more explortion, I can’t help but want to try it a little bit.