"Lizard Lamp"

Nerd definition, source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nerd
  1. a stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person.
  2. an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit: a computer nerd.
A little more elegant, descriptive definition...

QOTD
"... smart at school and dumb on the bus"
- description of a nerd in "The Third Option" by Vince Flynn
Nice.

Speaking of nerds... here's a fun article describing a supercomputer coming in the not-so-distant future:

Supercomputers with 100 million cores coming by 2018

QOTD2
"...the next milestone now getting attention from planners is something that can reach an exaflop, or a million trillion calculations per second, (one quintillion)"
- 2018 goal, source
Exaflop. Quintillion. Excellent.
dumb on the bus... yow, bill

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