Category Archives: Geek

Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV)

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Geek Grafitti

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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, … Continue reading

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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…

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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 … Continue reading

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The Knack

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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