I joined twitter in March of 2007, and my first tweet was not Shakespeare by any means. To find this piece of internet history, I had to download my archive of tweets from Twitter. This doesn’t sound like it would be to tough of a job, but of course there is a gotcha. After logging in to Twitter, go to… Read more →
Welcome to the first This Geek in Review, a weekly column where I share some of the internet’s geek side. Last week we lost the creator of Spongebob Squarepants, Stephen Hillenburg, to Lou Gehrig’s disease. One of his early animations from animation school is available on Youtube. The Guardian has posted some great pictures from the production of the original… Read more →
I’ve talked about my set up for lists a couple of times, but it’s been awhile so I believe it is time for an update. For those that don’t remember, I keep my to do lists in plain text files and store them in a Dropbox folder. I use a specific format for these to do files called taskpaper. Taskpaper… Read more →
Even if the machine is powered off. I didn’t try unplugging them.
As some of you know, I watch a lot of Christmas Vacation during the holidays. I watch it so many times that I feel it is my duty to inform the world that not only have I watched Christmas Vacation, but also how many times I’ve watched it. At first, I used a simple tally sheet in the form of… Read more →
Walmart has turned on the Arcade 1Up displays, so after school I can play arcade games! The spinner for Tempest is terrible, but the game is still sort of playable. I set the high score, and it appears to save the high score even after the cabinet is turned off. Read more →
It only takes up 800 square feet, but it seems to be a lot more than that! Here’s his website. Read more →
Through some sort of amazing alignment of the stars, I was able to see three movies in the theater in three days. Some may say that excessive, but how else am I suppose to stay on top of pop culture? The First Purge Rating: 👍 I’m not a big horror fan, unless it is what I call smart horror. A… Read more →
The Internet Archive has put a bunch of the old lcd handheld games online, including the Tamagotchi, Merlin, and Simon. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it includes the Mattel sport games or Coleco’s Football. Read more →
At the beginning of February I read about an Apple Watch look-alike with a 45 day battery life that was available for $99. When I checked Amazon, it was $89, so I figured it was fate and I bought it. My experiences with smart watches is limited. In high school I had a calculator watch that also played games and… Read more →