[geeks] What desk toy or "tchotchke" says "geek" to you?

Joost van de Griek jvdg at sparcpark.net
Mon Mar 27 13:27:31 CST 2006


On 3/27/06 1:05 AM, Sandwich Maker wrote:

> how about a deci-clock?  metric time?  one place i worked i rigged up
> a software clock that redivided the day into 100000 seconds.  100
> sec/min, 100 min/hr, 10 hr/day...  i got to work about 3.00, lunch at
> 5.00, left at 6.50.

Actually, that would be decimal time. Time in the metric (SI) system is
measured in the usual way: 24 hours a day, 60 minutes per hour, 60 seconds
per minute.

What about geek language use? Like throwing in the word "trivial" every
other sentence, or consequently referring to computers as "machines"...

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