Geekfoolery

Warner Home Video is going to release a new version of the classic film Blade Runner next fall. This is a new Director’s cut–yes, it’s basically a Director’s Cut of a Director’s Cut. Wait, let me back up… first, the movie Blade Runner comes out in 1982, and director Ridley Scott is unhappy with some […]

So you’ve spent a full day at work, attending meetings, completing reports, answering emails… yes, the backbreaking manual labor that is life in the modern office. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it.
And so you do. And you finish your last email, pack your laptop and head out into the gridlock and listen […]

The Washington Post just published this article that says that adoption of compact flourescent light bulbs–the small bulbs with a spiral flourescent tube that use a fraction of the power of the Edison classic incandescent bulb–is going slower that it should. Not because they don’t work, not because these bulbs don’t save money or put […]

Identity theft. Credit card fraud. There are big topics in the news, of course. Every other month or so one company or another announces a data breach. Credit card companies claim to be monitoring our purchases for fraud. It supposedly costs the various entities involved some $50 billion dollars a year in fraud. I have […]