Category Archives: Geeking around

 I’ve been helping out some friends with their Podcast, mostly moving them from a hand-held memo recorder to some more serious sound recording equipment.  Yesterday I contributed a somewhat fragmented WorldCon report.  I’m mostly quiet during the comics discussion, they … Continue reading →

More coolness.   http://www.minixm.com lets me listen to XMRadio through the Q.  Not sure if that will work if you don’t have a subscription already.  According to QUsers there’s a similar capability for Sirius radio, but that involved a zip … Continue reading →

Bought a Motorola Q Smartphone this week.  I’d been writing a couple of messages daily to friends also interested in the phone, just letting them know my experiences and discoveries.  Today I realized that I was blogging it through mail … Continue reading →

Thursday Nintendo announces availability and pricing for the US release of the DS Lite.   How twisted is the market when we get an announcement about when the availability of the product price and avalibility is going to happen?  How satisfying … Continue reading →

My friend Doug Garrett is getting to be quite the name in the boardgaming geek-o-sphere.  He’s the boardgame coordinator for KublaCon, one of the best gaming conventions out there, and now a regular on the Board Game Speak podcast from … Continue reading →

When you do any kind of design for a living, unless you’re some kind of a poser, you really love all design. You gain an appreciation for the how and why of other people’s work and the problems they were … Continue reading →

eVen at an eBay bargain price, even though they were new in box, spending $300 for a pair of headphones sounds pretty crazy at first.  But when you hear new stuff in every song you have in your collection, when … Continue reading →

Recently got ahold of a semi-free 10" flat-panel display.  What to do with it?  Hey, my video card supports two monitors…   Now I’ve got some place to put all that cool Konfabulator stuff that clutters my standard desktop!

We’re leaving Bend Oregon this morning on our way to Myrtle Creek Oregon by way of Ashland.  Heard of Ashland? (You certainly haven’t heard of Myrtle Creek!) Yes, Ashland – home to The Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  (http://www.orshakes.org/).    But it’s … Continue reading →

My friend Chuck Farnham is an eccentric.  Certifiable, he made a living and reputation off being eccentric for about a decade. Now it’s just a hobby.  I may get back to that history some day, but let’s talk about last night.   Chuck most … Continue reading →

Even if you’ve visited, you may not be aware that we have a cat. Shadow is notorious for not being around when strangers are in the house. This morning she was actually being friendly and let me take a picture … Continue reading →

Justin and I have been playing "Destroy All Humans" video game some evenings.  He’s recently finished the epic rpg Fable, and is basically sitting nearby as I manipulate the small alien giving me advice like "what happens when you jump … Continue reading →

Just so you don’t think I’ve been spending all day trying to get this phone photo blog thing working, today I went out early and bought a gazebo, then had lunch, then went and test drove a Mustang GT, went … Continue reading →

This will work but it is stupid.

This attempt through the MSN Hotmail web page, using the phone web browser. How delightfully geeky. This is all just trying to make sure I understand the limits of the connectivity involved. -RB

Short message of course.

Now with a picture… We’ll see how pictures work.  Here’s a nice one.  I particularly like this picture because is works on two levels.  Those who say “oh yeah! Me too!” and those who actually get it.

OK, giving this a go to see how it… well, how it goes. This is being sent remotely via e-mail. Which avoids all that awful loggingin and having to remember passwords and then clicking that darn difficultedit button.