Category: geek

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Drinking More HD Kool-Aid

Against my better judgement, but in the face of really crappy HD DVR (not to mention customer service) from RCN, I bought an HD TiVo. They’re running a special that includes lifetime product service and it’s comparable to what I...

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Never gonna make you cry…

The phenomenon of the Rickroll is truly going from cute to mega. Noticed on Kris’ shared feeds from Gothamist: Meet the Mets, Rickroll the Mets Thousands of Internet denizens–including some Mets–don’t want to ever give Rick Astley up, so they...

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Don’t need it, still want it.

I’m pretty impressed by this 36-piece set from My Pro Kitchen. At $280, it seems a bit steep, but if it’s truly professional quality, it’s worth it. About all that it suffers from is not being “pretty” but it looks...

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Oh… I can wait.

Why stop geeking out now when I’m on such a roll? I was catching up with some entries from a comic scans group on LiveJournal over my lunch break and the above scene from The Joker: The Devil’s Advocate story...

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6 Years Ago, The World Ended

Pardon me while I geek for a moment… If you’re not reading FreakAngels by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield, shame on you. If you are reading it and you haven’t told me, double shame on you! It’s a weekly online...

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Farewell Gary

Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, according to Stephen Chenault, CEO of Troll Lord Games. Gygax designed the original D&D game with Dave...

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comics: Heel, toe, heel, toe…

I hope you’re already reading xkcd, but if not, you really should. Especially the geeks and most especially the math geeks. 🙂 This one is more for the current and former band geeks out there, and I just kinda lost...

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Leave Her Alone

I would love to know the meaning behind this post-it note I saw on metro last Friday night. Oddly enough it touched on a conversation a friend and I have been having this week, but still is it viral? art?...