Today was my first official Fathers’ Day and, aside from the heat, it’s been good thus far. I received Blazing Saddles (30th anniversary “Fathers’ Day Special” pack with an included “101 Top Barbecuing Tips” book) and a wireless grill thermometer…
…It makes me laugh. An interesting discussion popped up over at Slashdot regarding the lack of female applicants to, and therefore, lack of females being sponsored by the GNOME project’s “Summer of Code” (sponsored by Google). The conversation revolved around…
My spindle of 8x RiDATA DVD-Rs smells suspiciously like a freshly-opened bottle of Aunt Jemima’s Butter Rich Maple-Flavored Syrup. …The heck?
Google has been on a “pro-Doug” tear recently as far as I can see, releasing first Picasa, then Google Earth for Linux, along with the cool-in-concept Google Browser Sync plugin for Firefox. The Google Sync extension only ranks cool in…
New Sisyphus made a nifty observation regarding Valve Software’s Steam, a software distribution client and network, namely: skipping the brick n’ mortar retail markets is the only way to go for low-volume game genres (such as independent and role playing…
I don’t know if it’s a universal I.T. thing or not, but at my place of employment we sysadmins have taken to blaming any freak accident/unexplainable computer phenomenon/Series of Unfortunate Events on “gremlins”. A person couldn’t log on five minutes…
I cleaned out my Akismet queue last night at around 10pm or so, meaning that I had zero (0) spam comments in my spam/moderation screen. I loaded up the WP admin interface this morning and was greeted with the following:…
Wowsers. Apple/Jobs appear to have thought of everthing for their new showcase store. Except fire exits. Dig that glass spiral staircase. It’s a work of art, I tells ya!
The new 24x7x365 Apple Store in Manhattan is quite a sight to see, but I do have to wonder at the wisdom of creating the store proper underground. Seems like some enterprising ne’er-do-wells could seal a whole bunch of geeks…
A gent by the name of Peter Hirschberg has assembled an absolutely astounding collection of arcade games and pinball tables which he has placed in a home arcade that is absolutely to die for, geekily-speaking. The full list of games…
