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geeker
geeker About geeker
Geeker enjoys not being able to identify errors or compression artefacts in Autechre mp3s.[alison] anyone still using ie really doesn't deserve to see webpages properly anyway
This profile picture is of a programmer staring down bugs late at night. Apologies to those brave men and women who gave their lives etc.
geeker 's details ?
- URL: http://2threads.com/ geeker
- Gender: Male
- Locality: Sydney
- Member since: June 2007
- Last login: 9 December 2008
- My Style:
My mother dresses me. - Favourite programmers:
Larry Wall, Noh Friedman, Richard M. Stallman, John Resig - Free Software:
Perl, Emacs, the Gimp, cplay, Firefox, Apache, GNU/Linux, jQuery - Quote:
Anything for the quiet life - Favourite Sydney(ish) Bands:
Dappled Cities Fly, Ohana, the Dolly Rocker Movement, Operator Please (they are ours now), Harum Cross, Triosk, the Necks, Crow - Favourite Drummers:
Tony Buck, Laurence Pike, Jim White, Hugh Boyce, Zach Hill - Websites:
2threads.com/ jQuery.com delicious.com/recent?min=10&random=1 - Now reading:
Thomas Pynchon - Against the Day, Borges - Collected Stories, Ballard - ditto
All geeker's Blogs
Mantyhose - Pantyhose for Men
I don't have the courage to do this, but I wish I did: http://www.e-mancipate.net/Read more...
Trade Secrets
Funny and true: www.slideshare.net/andybudd/how-to-bluff-your-way-in-web-20/Read more...
VLC media player -- new version
Whatever programs you're already using, if you consume audio/visual media on your gombuter, you'll want to add the latest version of VLC media player to your arsenal. It will play back just about any media format you can throw at it -- replacing Quicktime Player, Windows Media Player, Winamp, etc etc. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other systems. VLC happily sidesRead more...
One night via SMS
13.08.2008 08:07pm From: Ronald Was the dark knight even better second time around? 13.08.2008 08:07pmFrom: Ronald Is our screen dominated culture the death of the individual? 13.08.2008 08:08pm
From: Ronald
Is the west hypocritical for its demands on beijing? 13.08.2008 08:09pm
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PayPal justifies privacy invasion
PayPal requires sites using their checkout service to include an "official" logo from PayPal in their pages. You can't host this image yourself -- you have to embed the image hosted on PayPal's servers -- which means that everytime someone loads such a page PayPal will have a record of their visit. Here is their justificRead more...
Google Image Labeller Fun
Google applies the Mary Poppins "snap! the job's a game!" principle to labelling images in the Google image database::: http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/Read more...
Hosting Fail
Users appalled by the recent problems with 2threads.com may be interested to read this account of what went wrong at our old host. We've moved to a dedicated server now and so far so good.Read more...
PJ Harvey - The Peel Sessions 1991-2004
Thank goddess for Peel Sessions! The late and sadly missed John Peel was a man of broad tastes with an insatiable appetite for new music. His tastes and mine frequently coincided and so I've long enjoyed his recommendations and his championing of so much of my favourite music. And then of course there are his eponymousRead more...
James Gosling
A profile on one of your favourite 2threads developer's favourite developers : http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/wisdom-from-the-wayout/2008/03/18/1205602306483.htmlRead more...
jQuery image manipulation
We're big fans of jQuery at 2threads. You might say we're jQueer for it. We love the way it elegantly simplifies Javascript programming and makes it almost... fun. I've just found a couple of useful jQuery plugins that might be useful: mJSLib image library andRead more...
I love you very much and ask you to be my wife
Handy phrasebook for men seeking Russian brides. 555+Read more...
<3
I CARE ABOUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AND I BELIEVE THAT RIGHT NOW I AM MADE OUT OF ONE MILLION HUGSRead more...
Golden Spam
"Now I whizgiggle at them, because I took MEGADIK for 6 months and now my member is badly largest than world."Read more...
Not today little one
When I'm not working hard fighting browser inconsistencies and bugs in other people's code (never my own, obviously), I like to unwind with some old-timey webcomics. Here are some favourites:The heartwarming Achewood. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll barf.
The OVERWHELMINGLY INTENSE Bob the Angry Flower. Be grateful it's only weekly.
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All geeker's Videos
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Marnie Stern - Transformer
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Happy Birthday, GNU!
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The Real-Time Kernel 80x86 stack frame during a task level context switch
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You Belong To Me -- The Jerk
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Ohana Live
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Battles - Tonto
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Marx Brothers Mirror Scene from Duck Soup
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US Response to Sputnik
All geeker's Inspirations
GroupieSydney
NangyVibesMelbourne
Kalanisydney
kemmannurssydney
abbeyNew York
MildredSydney
rileySydney
testerla
cheeLisburn
plantronicsSydney
CrystalSydney
EktaMumbai
alSydney
Katie_violetSydney
TSydney
dee310newcastle
2threadsarchivessydney
carnageSan Diego
imawestySydney
nil_von_9woBudapest
mariannnatoronto
kateness84Sydney
shout outs ?
Gemma wrote on 28 August 2008
kamikaze geeker?
a new profile page to go with the new site. how very forward thinking of you
Katie_violet wrote on 2 July 2008
Thanks. Love your page
T wrote on 14 June 2008
do you know where i can PUR chase those footed PJ's?
Lexy wrote on 10 June 2008
Thanks for the comment! Yeah, there were heaps more I could have included if only it wasn't a top 5!
Corduroy wrote on 27 May 2008
skull bong?
Corduroy wrote on 27 May 2008
i spread love and death <3 love love
carnage wrote on 7 May 2008
Dear Code God,
please make image mapping cool again
love
kt
geeker wrote on 24 December 2007
You fool!
geeker wrote on 7 December 2007
Anointy, nointy.
mariannna wrote on 6 December 2007
HELLO! do i know you?
chee wrote on 7 November 2007
THERE'S NO GOING BACK NOW
geeker wrote on 23 October 2007
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