i'm all sorts of geek.

hi. here, have a limerick I didn't write.

A preoccupied vegan named Hugh
picked up the wrong sandwich to chew.
He took a big bite
before spitting, in fright,
"OMG, WTF, BBQ!"

I've been reading 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins, which has been 6 parts enlightening, 2 parts 'Richard, you sure think a lot of yourself, don't you?' and 1 part 'that's fucked'. Given that it was written over 30 years ago, I forgive the latter 3 parts.

So while I'm learning a lot about the theory of evolution, the book got me *really* excited when I read the paragraph where Richard Dawkins coined the word meme. *grin* 250 pages and zillions of years of life evolving and the only bit where I go 'so this is where it relates to me!' is when it can relate to the Internet.

But seriously, I didn't know he coined that word. Makes me like his smarmy prose a bit more.

He even writes, 'it should be pronounced to rhyme with the word cream'. So now I know.

here, have chemistry-geek limerick.

A dying mosquito exclaimed,
"A chemist has poisoned my brain!"
The cause of his sorrow
Was para-dichloro-
Diphenyl-trichloroethane

and a maths one.

The integral of zee-squared dee zee,
From 1 to the cube root of 3,
Times the cosine,
Of 3 pi over 9,
Is the log of the cube root of e

one for the English geeks

There once was a small juicy orange,
...fuck.

cya.