Laser Light Shows Are For Pansies

Real men don’t do laser light Floyd shows. They use a Tesla coil to play the Tetris theme song and the Super Mario Brothers’ “underground theme”:

Posted by Doug on June 21st, 2007 | Comments Off Posted in Outright Geekage, Science, Technology, Video Games

A Bountiful Link-Filled Catch-Up

I am fully cognizant of my delinquent blogging — apologies all around. I’ve been in full recovery mode since taking the redeye from SFO to PHL on Friday night. Short observations on that flight? Sucked like a brand-new Dyson 07 with the full pet hair kit. Stupid US Airways. In exchange for my previous silence, [...]

Posted by Doug on June 19th, 2007 | Comments Off Posted in Apple, Cars, General, Humor, Links, Macintosh, Outright Geekage, Pictures, Video Games, WordPress

[Insert Mechanical Onomatopoeia Here]

Have you seen the new Transformers “exclusive” trailer over on Yahoo! Movies yet? Proceed there posthaste or imperil your Official Geek Status and prepare to turn in your membership card, slide rule and protractor. Sweet.

Posted by Doug on May 21st, 2007 | Comments Off Posted in Movies, Outright Geekage

First-Rate Geeky Command Line Head-Smackage

WARNING: GEEKY CONTENT AHEAD If you have no desire to read about login shells, Linux, source code management or other similarly geeky content, you’d best be skipping this one. -ed. Have you ever allowed a nuisance to go on for literally years simply because you couldn’t be bothered to do enough research to effectively nip [...]

Posted by Doug on March 22nd, 2007 | 3 Comments Posted in Computers, Humor, Linux, Observations, Outright Geekage

The Web Is Awash In Wiki-Related Geekery

To wit: Exhibit A: Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki, possibly one of the geekiest Wikis out there. Exhibit B: Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala, a piece which should make old-school readers’ hearts jump for referential joy. It begins: Mr. and Mrs. Brown had one child. They called him Leroy, and so [...]

Posted by Doug on February 27th, 2007 | Comments Off Posted in Cool Sites, Humor, Outright Geekage

Required Daily Viewing

First off, a love song, sung by geeks, gone horribly, horribly awry: Next up, one of the absolute high points in Western action cinema, the car chase sequence from Bullitt: From Web 0 to Web 2.0 in five minutes’ time: Lastly, rock out to the oxymoronic “Heck No! (I’ll Never Listen To Techno)”:

Posted by Doug on February 21st, 2007 | Comments Off Posted in Humor, Movies, Outright Geekage, Technology, Video Games, Videos, Web Design
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