Geekfoolery

The Geekfools in my house are a crafty bunch, and a couple Christmases ago, I found what I thought would be very cool screen printing kit from Japan called Print Gocco. Silk screening, for those who have not tried it, is not terribly complicated, but getting started can involve some set up costs in equipment […]

Anyone who thinks that is going to accurately lead you anywhere better give up on stargazing and look up Google Maps.
Or get a Celestron Skyscout. The Skyscout actually isn’t much good for figuring out where you are, but it is fantastic for figuring out where the stars are (no, the answer is not in rehab).

Most websites that get any kind of regular traffic are pretty well designed. The ongoing competition for visits and hits and click-throughs promotes a healthy interest on the part of the website owners to clean up the layout, put the important stuff where it’s easy to see and find, and generally try not to annoy […]

I have bought two clocks over the last week. I got one of the them at IKEA for 99 cents–not even a full dollar–and it runs on a AA battery and has that same black 2-inch square alarm clock movement that 9 billion other clocks in the world have. For 99 cents, what the hell. […]

When I was about 5 or 6 years old, the family took a vacation for a couple weeks at a beach cottage a couple blocks from the ocean. In those simpler, carefree days, parents such as my Mom would not worry (too much) about telling a five-year-old to walk down the street to the corner […]

My morning drive to work is about 35 miles. It happens to take me through some of the most heavily congested highways and interchanges in the country. On average, it’s about an hour and a half, and this morning, for no discernable reason, the last 5 miles took an hour and a half. If I […]