With friends coming to town this weekend, I desperately needed to vacuum, but I didn’t really want to do it. Being the nerd I am, this seemed like the perfect time to borrow my coworker’s new robotic vacuum cleaner, the Roomba and try to convince my wife that this was the next life-changing gadget after …
I had a dream the other night that my cat opened a lunch stand in our backyard. He had people lined up behind a picnic table and was taking orders for sandwiches. We had to help him a bit because he was having trouble understanding the orders in english, keeping people in line and making …
It’s that time again when it gets ‘cold’ in the Bay Area, that being in the 50’s. Gasp! Mostly it means the return of this phenomenon called “rain”, which I think I vaguely remember from when we lived in Seattle. It’s actually quite neat to see fields of dead brown weeds suddenly spring to life …
I’ve always been pretty lax about virus prevention. Having mostly Macs, it just really hasn’t been much of an issue. I’ve got this laptop running Windows XP which I’ve had for over a year and a half and I’ve never run any kind of virus scan on it. It is behind my router, but who …
To my neighbors: I apologize if you knocked on our door on Friday, hoping for candy and no one answered the door. We hadn’t bought any candy and weren’t really in the mood to deal with halloween. So after Anne picked me up at work, we circled the neighborhood a few times to see how …
This is one of the top headlines: Polar Bear Gets Two Root Canals
So I’m just browsing around, minding my own business when I see that Macintouch says that Amazon has dropped the price of Panther to $99. “Wow, that’s a a pretty good price.” I say to myself. “Nah, I’ll wait until it gets cheaper. Lemme check what Apple charges for Jaguar so I can see how …
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Gizmodo really hates Nokia’s new game platform/cell phone to an extreme that screams of biased journalism, but this just is just too funny not to pass on. The joke here is that the the N-Gage is really awkward when used as a phone, but much much more than a cell phone circa say 1998. From …
What’s with all the celebrity deaths recently? Is the rapture at hand? God’s latest “Come on down” was to Rod Roddy, the annoucer on the Price is Right. Check this out: Roddy, who got his TV start as the narrator on the ABC comedy “Soap,” died Monday in Los Angeles of prostate, colon and breast …