I was in Whole Foods the other night and discovered they had the Google G1 phone! And it was on sale! It was much cheaper than I remember the reported cost being and I did not even have to sign up for a service plan. After bringing it home, I’m starting to wonder if maybe [...]
Okay, so I knew Portland can be a little nerdy. We have things like the largest independent bookstore in town, which causes something like the highest percentage of leisure readers in the country. We have things like Free Geek. There’s the Geek Prom. I could go on and on. Heck, I even know someone who [...]
The vending machine at work confuses me. Water is twice the price of soda. Sure, the Cokes are 12oz and water is 20oz, but it’s water! I can get filtered water for free from the refrigerator. In other news, I went to a site with a cute little CAPTCHA today. Sure, it’s not quite KittenAuth, [...]
Holy cow! It’s a blog devoted to handwritten signs with letters in all-caps, except for the letter L. Who’da thunk the phenomenon was prevalent enough to support such a blog? See also: countless blogs that feature examples of extraneous “quotes” and apostrophe’s Holy cow! It’s a blog devoted to handwritten signs with letters in all-caps, [...]
So I have been watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and something has been bugging me. If you can only bring flesh (or technology wrapped in flesh) and not straight-up technology through a time portal, then how did that bare terminator head get flung out of the bank vault and into the current-day storyline??? Posted [...]
Little things that feel good: * Performing a lane change on a freeway with those nubbily drive-by-braille bumps where you completely avoid hitting any of those dots. * Coming home to a house that smells of fresh bread, having forgotten that you set up the bread machine hours ago. * Going to a club and [...]
I have lube for my yo-yo. I have lube for my yo-yo.
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Someone in a blue labcoat just wheeled an electrostatic cart past my office door. On the cart was a mewing cardboard box. … The hardware design lab now appears to be part kennel. A cat is in there hiding behind a curtain of CAT-5 cables. I think this is the day in which we hope [...]
Every time I see or hear the term waterboarding, my brain immediately jumps to thoughts of playing in the ocean (specifically boogie boarding.) It takes a sec for my brain to recalibrate and latch in to the fact that waterboarding is really a torture technique currently in use by the US that dates back to [...]