This is the home of most things geeky. I say most things, because so much of my life is geeky, that I'm sure you'll find some in the other pages. But the things that are really geeky live here. I constantly debate whether to all this section "Geek" or "Nerd". Nerd seems more accurate, but Geek sounds so much better to me...
This is a grassroots movement to get Linus Torvalds, the original creator of Linux, listed as one of Time Magazine's People of the Century. This image was created by James Blackwell.
This is a pretty simplistic ray-trace of my favorite pocket organizer,
based on an image stolen borrowed from Greg Hewgill's Copilot
page. If you don't know about Copilot, please go check it out. It'll
ease my conscious a little until I can finish a proper model of my
beloved PalmPilot. Soon enough I'll actually put a link behind that
image...
This image was taken from the page referenced. I don't know who drew it, but it's kind of cool. This is the Bovine project. Basically, this group is trying to crack the RC5 encryption scheme by brute force, using all the spare computer cycles they can find. I currently have a couple of computers spending their spare time trying keys. Unfortunately, since I do a lot of raytracing, I don't always have that many spare cycles, but I do what I can. If you like, check out my progress and the ranking of the whole Cisco team. Or join the effort, and donate those cycles you weren't using anyway.
Yet another borrowed image from their home page. This is the distributed computing project I'm really waiting for. I really could care less about cracking RC5. It's obvious that if you try every key, eventually you will crack any cryptography. But SETI@home is another matter. They want to use your spare computer cycles to search the radio spectrum for alien messages. This is cool. This is what distributed computing is all about IMHO. This is doing something that can't be done well any other way. So get over there and get on the mailing list! It's up to about 80,000 people now.