Geekfoolery

Flying. Sitting in the cockpit, stick-and-rudder, bandits, 12 o’clock high. Top Gun. Cool nicknames. Roger that. I have to believe the desire to be not only a pilot, but a fighter pilot, is just about universal. Reality interferes with the vast majority of us pursuing that dream as a way of life for one reason […]

As a very young child watching the Road Runner cartoons, I was very interested in this company ACME. At such a tender young age, it seemed that the wonderful devices that arrived at the Coyote’s cave from ACME were real consumer goods, positioned in the cartoon as product placement. I was sold-I wanted to know […]

No, not that kind of blowing things up. Inflatable things, that’s what I am talking about.
I have an inflatable kayak, and there is something very cool about a thing that folds up into a bag that normally needs to go on the roof of a car. There are a great many inflatable boats […]

I once read an breakdown of why guys are attracted to certain kinds of things. If a thing meets one or more of the following criteria, a guy will want one.

It should be a thing.
It should be a thing that you can put other things in.
It should be a thing that goes from Point A […]

I saw a t-shirt not long ago that said, “It’s the future, where’s my jetpack?” Jetpacks, of course, were a staple of 60s and 70s era TV shows and movies–”Lost in Space” and James Bond, and many others. That guy in the silver suit and the helmet would just be cruising around, hands on a […]