Geekfoolery

A few days ago I wrote about a way to save gas that involved leaving the truck at home and hooking up a motor to my bicycle to deal with 30 miles across LA (and back again every day). I’m still serious about that one, but with a bit of luck, a man in Florida […]

Getting a cheap computer has been possible for some time if you either know what you were looking for or don’t mind a bit of crap shoot. A basic tower can be had for a couple hundred bucks if you look around and get lucky. Laptops will set you back a couple hundred bucks more. […]

Earlier this month the word went around that on May 15th, we were all going to stick it to the man by not buying gas. Those fat cats at Chevron and and Exxon and the rest of ‘em–they’ll see. Just one day will be all it will take to show Big Oil that we’re mad […]

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 […]

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 […]

There’s lots of good, scientific, politically correct reasons to want to use less gas. Here’s one that everyone can agree on: It’s expensive. And it’s not likely to get significantly cheaper any time soon. What follows are a couple interesting twists on some ideas that have been in the public eye recently.