Geek Stuff
Is hacking the new Heathkit?
Growing up, the only way to learn electronics was to take apart whatever it was you wanted to learn about which didn’t help much since everything was on cryptic circuit boards, or buy a Heathkit. Heathkits were electronic devices, sent as a kit, that you would build yourself. Radios, amps, programmable doorbells, and computers were [...]
The tug o’ war with iPhone ringtones
The iPhone is a wonderful phone. I love it. However, today I upgraded my firmware to 1.1.1 and Apple tricked my phone so that if I open up a ringtone menu, it loses my custom ringtone setting. The ringtone’s there and will still work if you don’t open that menu, but opening the menu wipes [...]
Is that Steve Jobs in my Wii?
My kids were playing Bowling on the Wii and I had this idea – since you have other Miis playing Wii Sports with you, why not make a few famous ones? I realize now that the idea isn’t new, but that’ll show you how involved I am in my Wii . In any case, we [...]
The Bionic Dud
When I was a kid, I grew up watching The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. When I heard that the team that put together Battlestar Galactica was remaking The Bionic Woman, I thought for sure the show would do well. Yesterday afternoon, I got an email from Amazon which was an offer [...]
Feed me, Seymore!
As I mentioned before, I got the 160 GB iPod. I thought “oh, no problem, I’ll just import all my CDs”. Let me tell you, importing CDs isn’t as easy as it sounds, nor is it exciting, even if you’re doing it in the background. The constant dance of opening/closing the drive door, swapping CDs, [...]
-last.fm
I had a goal these last few months which was to rip my entire CD collection (something like 1200 of them) and see how much space it took up. The challenge has been fighting people who put in terrible Gracenote track names. For example: 1) DO NOT put the name of the album in the [...]
The price of being an early adopter just went up
When you’re the first on the block to buy something new, you know that you’re paying top dollar for it. Eventually the price will drop, we all know that. However, today Apple kicked its loyal users in the teeth by dropping the price of their 8GB iPhone by $200 after only being out 60 days. [...]
I just made 2000g
I never thought I’d make it past my previous record of 1200g, but I did. 2000g. Lots of questing, mining, and herbalism. I’m tired, and I have another 3000g to go.
Kickin’ it old school
If anyone has noticed, the banner I created for World of Warcast is a 45 RPM record. It’s a personal decision I made because my roots are in old school vinyl, reel-to-reel, and cassette. Everyone would expect pictures of orcs or night elves, but since my roots in recording go back to the late 60′s [...]
Frustration
I need someone to create a horde character on Whisperwind named SarbanesOxley so I can punch him in the face.
