Geekfoolery

I have been a happy Netflix subscriber for several years now. This is of course the age of 84-inch high-def plasma TVs, Tivo, and 800-channel cable/satellite channel lineups. I’ll spare you the tales of my Oliver Twist-like youth of audiovisual impoverishment, where we had 3, count ‘em, 3 channels. And if you weren’t home when […]

I was prompted to reset a password to a web-based tool I use at work the other day. It was something I don’t use everyday, so I assumed I had used some variant on my “standard” password, but it didn’t work. Tried a few other that I thought it might be, but no luck. So […]

Give yourself 2 Geek points if you know what the Perseids are. Another if you were aware that the Perseid meteor shower was this weekend. A full ten geek points if you actually went out and made the effort to watch them.
Mr. & Mrs. Alex and geeklings went out to see the show, making what […]

US Space Shuttle Endeavour launched yesterday, carrying aboard a seven-member crew that included retired Idaho schoolteacher Barbara Morgan, who was the original backup for Christa McAuliffe, the schoolteacher/astronaut who died along with 6 astronauts in the Challenger disaster 21 years ago.
McAuliffe’s mission was to teach the nation from space–hopefully to rekindle the nation’s interest in […]

By Sirius, it is the dog days of summer, a time of weekend projects, puttering in the garage and the yard, making a general mess of things and whacking a knuckle or slicing open a nasty piece of your thumb because the clamp that you should have used was on the other end of the […]