bamed.org

Yup, that’s right.  Whatever you may be missing you can find at http://www.tenduotrigintillion.net!

Introducing TenDuotrigintillion.net!  The real-life search engine.  This search engine does not bother searching puny website, but instead searches space and time to locate physical items you have misplaced, such as your keys, or the remote!

This site is currently in beta, in fact, I haven’t registered the domain name yet, but it can be found at http://www.bamed.org/tenduotrigintillion.net.

The following is taken from the About page of TenDuotrigintillion to help further explain how it works:

The genius behind TenDuotrigintillion is quite simple. It is all based on the premise that at some point in the future some form of time travel will be possible, and we here at TenDuotrigintillion have decided to use that technology for the benefit of all. The entire technology revolves around a new protocol our team has developted, TCP over Space-Time. Through the use of this technology we have been able to setup a networked connection between our server farm of EeePC’s and some unkown database server from AD2500.

When you search for an item you have misplaced, the request is sent to our EeePC server farm which then queries the future. At that point, approximately 500 years from now, a spider is sent into the past to crawl through space-time and track the location of your item from the point of its creation. Then the location of your item is indexed in the database servers of the future for every point in space-time that item exists in. This way a space-time crawler will only have to locate the item once and all future queries for that item will already be filled

How is such a thing possible? Where did we get the money? Again, this is all built around the premise that time travel is possible. So our found, bamed, set aside a small amount of cash in an interest bearing account that was not to be touched for 500 years. Anyone who knows anything about finances can tell you that 500 years worth of interest is a whole lot of dough. Then instructions were left for bamed’s descendants, along with the specification for TCP over Space-Time, to setup the database servers, and space-time crawlers. Then a large sum of money was transferred retroactively to a numbered Swiss-account 500 years into the past, that is into our current time era, to cover the startup costs (our two EeePC’s that power the web search).

What’s with the name? Ten Duotrigintillion is the English form of the number that is represented by a one followed by a hundred zeroes. This number is also known as a googol. That other search engine, that merely searches the Internet as it currently exists, is a misspelling of this number. We at TenDutotrigintillion choose to properly spell things, and to use their true English names!

The latest addition to the Medlock family.  Due 8/10/2009

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Hey kids,

If you’ve been following along at home, you should know that last year for Christmas I bought an Asus Eee, a small form factor netbook with a 7″ screen and only weighs 3lbs.  This year, I’m going even smaller:

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Assimilate this!

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