Geekfoolery

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 […]

I am not quite of the age that grew up in fear that the Soviet Union (always the aggressor, of course) would one day get pissed off and nuke the living hell out of us. Backyard bomb shelters and nuclear air raid drills were a bit before my time. I remember discussion of proposed shell-game […]

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. […]

Welcome to the first in a continuing series that celebrates the classics… stuff that could well have been passed down from grandfather to father to son, things that purchased today are virtually indistinguishable from the same item purchased 50 years ago, designs that haven’t changed because they got it so damn right the first time. […]

Listen to me, you little whippersnappers, when I was kid, there was only ONE kind of Star Trek, not counting that cartoon. When you talked about the Captain of the Enterprise, no one asked if you meant Kirk or Picard, and Star Wars hadn’t been invented yet! And when Star Trek was on the TV, […]

I have a dim memory of being brought to my dad’s office when I was a toddler and being shown what was then a rare marvel of modern electronic wizardy, one of the first desktop calculators. I could barely grasp what the device was for at that tender age, but with its buttons and glowing […]