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Quote of the week 2/6/08
I heard this one on an episode of 10 Items or Less tonight, Carl says that his Mom gave him one good piece of advice: Just because it feels good doesn’t mean you shouldn’t lock the bathroom door and turn … Continue reading
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Shameful plug: Live After Death DVD
Yep, I’m plugging someone else’s product but I don’t care. I think that Iron Maiden‘s Live After Death could be the best live concert recording ever. They are re-releasing it on DVD in a couple of days and at US$15 … Continue reading
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Kubby for Prez
No I’m not a closet Mickey Mouse Club fan, I decided to vote for Steve Kubby in the Libertarian primary election next week. (Actually I’m a lazy bastard and registered a few years ago for permanent absentee balloting so that … Continue reading
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Geek Hierarchy
I originally saw this a long time ago but today when a guy at work asked if I had heard of LARPing (sadly I have) I decided to hunt down the image and post it myself. I don’t know about … Continue reading
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HDD storage cost bell curve
Like my friend Darana said this is Nerds R Us. Somebody compiled hard drive costs from Newegg and plotted a graph of GB/dollar across various drive sizes and came up with a basic point graph here. Looks like right now … Continue reading
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Cat in a suitecase? That’s unpossible! (Not once, but twice)
Boy this one is wacky: not only does a cat fly from Florida to Texas in a suitcase but it isn’t even the owner who opens up the suitcase. Can you imagine picking up someone else’s suitcase by mistake, getting … Continue reading
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Finally, a new look
I really liked my old theme (Fighting the Darkness) because it had the rounded, bolted on to the side look for the sidebar but I finally decided that I needed to get a newer template that was widget-ready for WordPress … Continue reading
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Custom USB drive (COBRAAAAA!!!)
One of my buddies linked to a story on Engadget that ultimately pointed back to this thread at the JoeCustoms web site. This guy basically hollowed out an old holographic Cobra Commander action figure and inserted a small USB memory … Continue reading
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TSA-Inspired Art
These cool sculptures were on the back page of Reason magazine this month and I thought that they were just cool looking in their own right but there’s more: they are made solely from objects seized (rightly or wrongly) by … Continue reading
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Reason Magazine
I have been subscribed to Reason magazine for many months now and I find it a great read every month. It’s a libertarian magazine that deals with all the ways that our freedoms are being taken away (civil liberties, privacy, … Continue reading
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Curved gaming monitor prototype from Alienware
Holy hell, this prototype DLP monitor from Alienware for gaming looks awesome. It displays at 2880×900 resolution and the curve is supposed to simulate peripheral vision. I can only imagine that it will cost something like $1000 if it ever … Continue reading
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Ticket To Ride
I picked up Ticket to Ride from my local game shop to take with us to my parents’ house for vacation last week. This is an amazing game, very quick to learn but each time we played we picked up … Continue reading
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Schedules Direct to the Rescue
Well a quick visit to the MythTV site led me to Schedules Direct which might be my replacement when the ReplayTV guide eventually goes away (which I know it will, at least it was available long enough to make my … Continue reading
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TiVo vs. ReplayTV
Once again we see that the superior technology has lost the battle. I agree with all the comments about how the ReplayTV DVR feature set has always been better than TiVO (it took TiVo five years to add Ethernet for … Continue reading
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Do you know your sci-fi sounds?
Thanks to Mangoat for finding an Internet quiz that was actually interesting. Apparently I’m “an extreme sci-fi geek. I’m probably wearing my very own homemade TRON costume right now.” I received 86 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz How … Continue reading
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