http://www.geekfoolery.com Commentary on emerging trends, especially cool or absurd innovations across a broad range of geekiness. Sun, 04 May 2008 08:27:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mr. Alex, your host here on Geekfoolery for the past year+ since its inception in Dec 2006, has some new digs on gadget blog, Gizmos for Geeks. Don't worry, Mr. Alex will still be waxing philosophically on all manner of technology, trends and downright geekiness in the style you've come ... http://www.geekfoolery.com/2008/02/14/mr-alex-is-now-on-gizmos-for-geeks/ 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 ... http://www.geekfoolery.com/2008/01/30/top-five-gripes-from-a-movie-geek-at-oscar-time/ 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 ... http://www.geekfoolery.com/2008/01/25/the-real-star-of-macworld-and-its-not-macbook-air/ 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 ... http://www.geekfoolery.com/2008/01/22/saving-gas-update/ 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 ... http://www.geekfoolery.com/2008/01/08/christmas-camfoolery/ So here we are, less than a week to go before Christmas. There's still time to shop online, if you don't mind paying extra for shipping, and there's a solid 3 days this weekend to pick over the unsold dregs at the mall. It is about this part of the ... http://www.geekfoolery.com/2007/12/19/12-geeks-of-christmas-the-rudolph-files/ There is perhaps no stronger early childhood memory than that of coming downstairs on Christmas morning to behold a treasure of wrapped gifts under the Christmas tree, larger by at least an order of magnitude than the anemic pile of boxes and packages placed there the night before by family ... http://www.geekfoolery.com/2007/12/13/the-12-geeks-of-christmas-part-3-santa/ Today, Mr. Alex invites a dear old friend as a guest blogger for the 12 Geeks of Christmas series. Jean Thomas is based in Boston, and has endured the annual gift exchange with Mr. Alex for more years than anyone should have to endure. Here we discuss the aspect of ... http://www.geekfoolery.com/2007/12/07/12-geeks-of-christmas-day-2-special-guest-blogger-edition/ There is no shortage of lists of gadgets that geeks want to receive for Christmas (or to be more inclusive, Chrismahannakwanzakuh). Gizmos for Geeks, Geekfoolery's parent site, is just one of many that review and highlight the many shiny electronic objects that we geeks desire, which in the interest of ... http://www.geekfoolery.com/2007/12/04/twelve-geeks-of-christmas/ Amazon announced their Kindle eBook reader this week, joining Sony's Reader in the relatively uncrowded market for electronic book devices. Sony's latest is a slicker 2.0 version of its first offering from a couple years ago. Kindle is Amazon's baby, what I assume they are hoping will be a killer ... http://www.geekfoolery.com/2007/11/27/ebook-readers/