Geekfoolery

Once again, the film industry is working itself up into its annual lather to hand out prizes to Hollywood’s versions of Employee of the Month. As usual, no one I know has seen, or in some cases, even heard of the movies in contention. So instead, I am going to take the opportunity to review […]

It is always a good idea to wait about a week or so before committing to an opinion after one of Steve Jobs’ MacWorld keynotes, just to give the Reality Distortion Field time to dissipate.
It’s easy to get totally sucked in, and come away thinking that a computer shaped like a cube is going to […]

Last summer, as gas prices climbed up past $3.50 a gallon here in California, I was increasingly frustrated with my 70-mile-a-day commute, made worse by the fact that LA traffic not only was costing me more than $10 a day in gas, but I was also at least 3 hours a day behind the wheel […]

Christmas brought a couple new camera gadgets into the Geekfoolery household. We’ve just returned from a 2400-mile road trip where we’ve put  these devices through their paces. Here now a quick review:
Eye-Fi: The Eye-Fi card appears to be a standard-issue 2GB SD memory card, but the secret is the built-in WiFi transmitter. The Eye-Fi’s gadget […]