Archive for 'Geek'
Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV)
Posted: April 21st, 2008 under Geek, Tech.
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Geek Grafitti
More at /film
Posted: March 21st, 2008 under Amusements, Geek.
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Speed Cabling
Finally - a sport for sysadmins and network engineers everywhere! From http://www.speedcabling.org/:
Speedcabling is a competitive sport in which contestants race to unravel a bundle of wires.
The Regulation Cable Set
There are two types of competition. In 2-2-2 competition, the contestant’s set consists of two 7-foot cables, two 14-foot cables, and two 21-foot cables. [...]
Posted: February 7th, 2008 under Amusements, Geek, Tech.
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Guess What This Is…
What is the significance of this object? Post your guesses in the comments!
Hint - it’s related to one of my childhood obsessions…
Posted: January 10th, 2008 under Geek.
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Fantastic cameo in recent Battlestar Galactica TV movie
I won’t give it away (spoilers suck), but if 1) you have already seen the “BSG - Razor” TV movie or 2) don’t care about spoilers, by all means play the movie.
It makes my geeky heart go a-flutter. I’d be lying if told you it didn’t send chills down my back…
Posted: November 26th, 2007 under Geek.
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The Knack
Posted: October 16th, 2007 under Amusements, Geek.
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Star Wars viewing order
A very important question was raised on kottke.org last week -
Let’s say you’re a new father and a movie fan. When your child is of an appropriate age to start watching movies, in which order will you show him/her the six Star Wars movies? By original release date (Star Wars, Empire, Jedi, Phantom Menace, Clones, [...]
Posted: October 3rd, 2007 under Amusements, Geek, Parenting.
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Another Windows User Bites the Dust
…or, “My Mac Conversion”
Background
As I had posted previously, my good friend Bob gave me his old Apple Powerbook G4 12″ back in January. I had wanted a Mac for years, but was a dedicated Windows user (I also ran both Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux, but they were secondary machines). Windows had [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2007 under Geek, Mac, Personal, Tech.
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The Man Who Collects Apples
From The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
He’s got 100 Macs in his basement, including 30 Mac Classics and 18 original iMacs, as well as both a Lisa and a 20th Anniversary Macintosh. And these aren’t just sitting around on shelves with cords all over the place– oh no. These are set up just as Jobs would want [...]
Posted: August 29th, 2007 under Geek, Mac, Tech.
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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard receives UNIX 03 certification
This is cool in the very geekiest sense of “cool”. From Ars Technica:
One of the big draws of OS X has always been the UNIX-like, BSD heritage of the operating system. Apple has always touted OS X as UNIX-based and played up the security, stability, and compatibility that comes with the BSD foundation. The company [...]
Posted: August 2nd, 2007 under Geek, Mac, Tech.
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