Imperial Fleet Week San Francisco
Nerd-tastic:
Tweet Fulfillment
There are days that I’m amazed by the Internet, and then there are days that it lives downup to my expectations. Take, for instance, a recent Tweet of mine in which I pondered
I was quickly answered by Stephane, who pointed out the wonderfully-implemented and -documented iPod Shuffle RAID0 array.
A few days thereafter, [...]
Just Call Me MacGyver: Systems Administrator
I’m working a bit late today as I had to schedule some downtime for a critical piece of hardware that needed to be powered down, lightly disassembled, have a part replaced and then powered back up. As I unscrewed the part to be replaced, I thought to myself “Boy, it’d sure stink if I [...]
1/2 Scale Panzer Tank Built By College Student
…Membership in fraternity mentioned in article. Color me surprised.
*grin*
Philadelphia Metro Residents: Get Thee To The Franklin Institute
For lo, Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination is currently running and is eminently check-out-able.
(CrunchGear has pictures to prove it.)
My Friend Flickr
If you’re looking for something to while away a Wednesday afternoon, you could do far worse than the following photosets on Flickr: Understanding art for geeks and Andy Ihnatko’s awesome behind-the-scenes tour of Alcatraz. Well worth your time, both of ‘em.
There’s Just No Accounting For Crazy. Or Masochistic. Or Masochistic-Crazy.
As I wended my way home last night, I was listening to this “week’s” FLOSS Weekly and just about had to pull my car to the side of the road, due to my sheer astonishment. Leo and Randal had a developer on who was promoting Seaside, a web development framework for Smalltalk (particularly the Squeak [...]
It Is Here, Thus I Shall Not Be
Awww yeah. Our copies arrived at work this morning — this is my first official post from a newly-Leopardized Mac Pro. I’m about to give Bootcamp a spin and my Applications folder is near-pristine, so I’ve lots of work to do.
Onward, upward and Leopard.
W00t!
Lets All Point And Laugh At The People Who Dont’ Know How To Apostrophize Or “Quote”
Before I begin, I should admit to a bit of personal Grammar Naziism; that is to say, I generally have little tolerance for people who don’t take the time to learn to use proper punctuation, spelling and grammar and thus inflict linguistic atrocities upon those of us that do care about such matters. Thus [...]
Did Anyone Else Get 33% More Likely To Buy An iPhone Yesterday?
Okay, so y’all did see the coverage of Apple’s little shindig yesterday where they announced
New iPod Nanos with screen rezzes equivalent to the iPod Video
iPod “Classics” featuring 80GB and 160(!)GB capacities
The friggin’ iPod “Touch”, otherwise known as “iPhone Without The Phone Part”
And a $200 drop on the iPhone’s previously astronomical pricetag
…Cause, dang, son, those are [...]
