The Glider

I guess I'm not as big a geek as I thought. I've never heard of the game of Life they speak of, but now I will explore it. Well, later. Right now I want to talk about a great article I read last night on How to Become a Hacker. I never thought I'd come across something like that, for real hacking is just that - hacking. Whatever art or science it is, if you're really good at it and are able to build things and solve problems, you are a hacker. A passion for such things is usually apparent in the person, too.

On to my subject, and a link. The first result from Google for 'amortization schedule' for years has always returned this one at FSU. I took a look at the fellow who wrote it and found this symbol on his page. It turned out to be a link and in that link were the words "hacker emblem." I had to look.

Apparently there is a following of people who use this emblem to mark themselves in this way, but according to the emblem guide it doesn't mark them as hackers; it only shows that they support the hacker culture. Fine with me. I'd rather not boast that I am a hacker, because if I'm the only one calling Ben Rehberg a hacker I obviously haven't proven to anyone else that I have the skills.

That said, I do support passionate homemade engineering, as I like to call it, so I will display the emblem on this site too. Come to think of it, I could put it on all the sites I own.