Category Archives: Geek

My Dinner with uWink

In-between yesterday’s day-long computer massacre — the sound card took another six hours, not one, before it was tamed — Kat took me out for a meal at uWink, which is Nolan Bushnell’s latest business venture. He’s the man who … Continue reading

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Computers are fun

That is sarcasm. Kat had a 1TB drive (two 500s in RAID 0) from Maxtor that died right before Christmas. I didn’t realize it was a RAID but I should have. Then her 500GB MyBook snuffed it. That left me … Continue reading

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Wikipedia

I dabble in Wikipedia but I honestly haven’t done much with it. But when I realized that people like Todd Mowatt had entries as video game critics and Andy Eddy didn’t, I had to do something about it. Please make … Continue reading

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A serious question about PS3

Kat, as you know, is a gadget girl, but the whole lure of PS3 and Blu-ray has not been so shiny for her (even when they announced the very shiny release of Firefly). I suggested getting a console at launch, … Continue reading

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Coming soon: a monitor for your video card

Spotted this at Fry’s today. Finally, they make these “for my computer”! What will they think of next?

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At the ren faire

Hit the ren faire today as an anniversary activity. There are a handful of folks you see every year whether they should be there or not. Pirates. They are the new Scotsmen, now that Braveheart is over. I saw two … Continue reading

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My Movies: Sneakers

There are a handful of movies that I can watch any time or all the time. I realized that they’re the ones that have shaped my sense of humor, my personality, and my pop cultural references. As I realize and … Continue reading

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I’m a folding millionaire

I’ve been involved in the Folding@Home project for several years now. It’s a Stanford program that takes the unused cycles on your computer and uses them to do science, analyzing proteins to see how they tick. Scientists will then use … Continue reading

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GB segment of Inside Xbox

So if you’ve got an Xbox 360 and you’re connected to the interwebs, click on Inside Xbox today (and throughout the week). The OXM Report interview with Ryan French is online, and he talks a little bit about what multiplayer … Continue reading

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Watchmen: The Old Script

I had a copy of this Watchmen movie script in the mid-90s. Actually, I still do. It was written by then-hot screenwriter San Hamm, who’d written the first Batman movie. It is the reason I have been dreading a film … Continue reading

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