Geekality » Random http://www.geekality.net With a hint of Social Ineptitude Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:44:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Universal Greeting Time (UGT) http://www.geekality.net/2010/05/14/universal-greeting-time-ugt/ http://www.geekality.net/2010/05/14/universal-greeting-time-ugt/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 16:29:14 +0000 Torleif http://www.geekality.net/?p=983 Continue reading →]]> Stumbled over the concept of Universal Greeting Time on IRC a little while ago. Found it kind of brilliant :p

UGT (abbr.): Universal Greeting Time.
UGT is convention initially established in #mipslinux on irc.openprojects.net (now irc.freenode.net) but slowly taking over the world. It states that it is always morning when person comes into a channel, and it is always late night when person leaves. Local time of any member of channel is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. Your ass will be laminated. (geoman is exception to this rule – his ass will be fried instead).

Used as follows:
Good (UGT) Morning, Everyone! or good morning (ugt) (on entry to channel).
Good (UGT) Night – when leaving it.

The idea behind establishing this convention was to eliminate noise generated almost every time someone comes in and greets using some form of day-time based greeting, and then channel members on the other side of the globe start pointing out that it’s different time of the day for them. Now, instead of spending time figuring out what time of day is it for every member of the channel, we spend time explaining newcomers benefits of UGT.

Source: UGT

Good night!

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First one wide youtube video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZIIJ0_R_Ok[/youtube]

And, as it turns out, no video. How about that. Well, here is one wide with video.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY[/youtube]

Then one that is in the 4:3 ration. Seems like the preview image looks a bit uggo when the viewer is 16:9, but the video is scaled correctly anyways…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRNqhE57q4A[/youtube]

Using the Vipers Video QuickTags plugin btw. In case  you were wondering.

]]> http://www.geekality.net/2009/09/13/test-embedded-media/feed/ 0 Nerd explained http://www.geekality.net/2009/09/11/nerd-explained/ http://www.geekality.net/2009/09/11/nerd-explained/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:53:21 +0000 Torleif http://www.geekality.net/?p=107 Continue reading →]]> I’ve always kind of thought of myself as a geek, or a nerd, or something in that genre. But I have never really understood the subtle differences between them. Recently I came over a good Venn diagram that explains it all!

Nerd venn diagram

That diagram is also the source of the name of this blog, just in case you didn’t see it :P

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