Yep. I'm a nerd.
I had a really long day today. At the end of it, I helped a client transition away from one internet connection and to another. This is a pretty delicate process. Things have to be done in a certain order, according to a plan, and depend upon factors that are outside of your control, like DNS Propagation. It's a big freaking deal. It's why they pay me the big bucks to do it. So, at the end of the night, we were inches from success, and things weren't working the way they ought to.
Something that should've gotten caught, wasn't caught. So we tinkered, and found the solution. But, what's really fun, was the conversation that followed with my friend Jeff. We got to talking in a lot of depth about Battlestar Galactica, and let's just say, we went a little far. We did mathematics people. And not just that silly addition/subtraction, we did freakin' algebra. Calculus was discussed, but neither of us felt the need to be at home on our couches on a Friday night with engineering pads out and scratching out derivatives and integrals. That's for weeknights.
Anyhow, Jeff and I had a long conversation [PDF] in which we tinkered with mathematics, and all manner of things BSG. But what's really fun about all of this is that we figure we're not the first people to have this conversation. We figure it happened in the writers' room at BSG.
But yeah, Jeff's description is far more eloquent than mine, and goes into far more detail than we do.
But I figured it was worth sharing that I'm a great, big, giant nerd. And I do geeky sci-fi math on Friday nights during the holidays.
Right then.
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