Gadget Dudes’ Disease, Continued

brother matt said regarding my bad luck w/ gadgets that that is a sign that I need to simplify… If it was only that simple # So, how did I spend my Christmas day and the week? Juls’ computer at home hasn’t been working for a couple weeks and my son is soon going to …

Vacation = Nonstop-Teching Out

• hi ho hi ho, off to Fry’s to return the wrong size memory I go… # twitter’s been down all day, Saturday just cancelled and i’m still loading software that no one will care about… i need a beer # Powered by Twitter Tools. Technorati Tags: hardware, Fry’s, beer

Happy Christmas, Data

Really corny “Christmas Story” StarTrek:TNG-style… Thanks Rhea C via Pownce for this one. • merry christmas y’all… heading to sis’ to see the rest of the tribe, looking forward to share more of my brother’s homebrew. all is good # • merry Christmas y’all may u find great peace, love and affection 2 day and …

Holiday Sweater.. Happy Christmas

A little twisted, but funny Holiday video. Thanks Veronica Belmont for the heads-up on this one via Twitter (she’s in the first few seconds of the video. She says, “No, I’m not one of the chicks making out…” Damn).

Happy 60th Birthday Transistor

The little device that changed is all. Check out the drama behind the invention at PBS’ Transistorized. (Leo Laporte mentioned this last Sunday as being invented on the 16th… obviously a highly controversial date…. ). jbb

Gadget Dudes’ Disease

So, two weeks off, what to do? In view of my recent problems with gadgets one might think that I’d want to take a vacation away from the tech. Alas, it’s a sickness. I mean, I woke up this morning thinking about how i can “fix” things, like when iTunes breaks on the MacMini because …

Last Two Day w/ the Kids

Happy Thursday, kids taking a pop-timed-typing-test (’cause many will not be here 2morrow 4 the real thing), happy busy fingers # kids are all freaking out about their “love calculator” results… as if… # @girlgeek77 http://www.lovecalculator.com/ only slightly better than e-harmony.com # last day w/ the kiddies…. yippee!!! # my “word processing” class just told …

OLPC+B

“If Nicholas Negroponte became Bush’s Secretary of Education, we could all donate One Laptop Per Child Left Behind.” Merlin Mann via twitter How sad is it that I find this hilarious. JBB Music: Buzz Out Loud 628: The second listener co-host show! from the album “Buzz Out Loud from CNET” by Tom Merritt and Molly …

The Growing Tech Carnage Around Me

I’m concerned. Things are breaking around me and it’s really beginning to get really expensive. The bad part is that I’ve been so busy that I’ve had to just brush it off and keep going until I find time to deal with it. In late October I had a 19″ LCD start to flash off …

Verizon’s Just-Like but Better (Kind’a) Phone

Reading the latest “return to us” brochure from Verizon, I noticed that their next-gen phone, Voyager, looks an awful like another phone released last June (image on the left from brochure). But when I went looking for images of the Voyager on the Internet most of them were slightly turned, perhaps to lessen the obvious …