When I started Destination Unknown oh so long ago I told myself I wasn’t going to be one of those bloggers who just posts YouTube videos day after day. But my friend Spike, of Spike Nesmith’s Rage Machine fame, produced a video too good not to share.
The footage is of the abandoned Weston State [...]
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Yeah, it’s a YouTube video.
Posted in Other geekery on 15 August 2008 | 3 Comments »
Three weeks with the Kindle(tm)
Posted in Other geekery on 14 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
I recently told you that I was the proud new owner of an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, and I gave you my initial impressions after playing with it for a few days. Now that I’ve spent more quality time with it I’ve come to know more of its strengths and weaknesses.
It has already [...]
The Dark Knight. Yeah, it’s that good.
Posted in Other geekery on 29 July 2008 | 8 Comments »
This past weekend I got together with all my good friends and went to see The Dark Knight. As I sat there alone in the theater waiting for the movie to start I realized that the last movie I saw in the theater was Batman Begins. Can you tell I don’t get out much?
As I [...]
Changing the way we read.
Posted in Other geekery on 28 July 2008 | 8 Comments »
In the sixth grade I met a kid named John who was a classmate of mine. We weren’t best friends but we talked and joked occasionally. One thing I noticed about John was that he carried a book with him everywhere he went in school. Not a school book — a novel. There was [...]
To the batpole, or not to the batpole?
Posted in Other geekery on 18 July 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Gainsville Sun has a nifty article about an English professor who is writing a paper comparing Batman to Hamlet. Now that’s a paper I’d love to read.
In addition to the superficial similarities between Batman and Hamlet — the mournful attitude, the black outfits, the upper-class backgrounds — both characters are avenging the death of [...]
Quest for fire.
Posted in Other geekery on 10 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m a salsa junkie. As my Dad would say, I eat salsa on everything but cereal. My store-bought brand of choice has always been Pace(tm), but a couple of weeks ago after purchasing a blender that doubles as a food processor I began a quest to make the perfect salsa at home.
I started by [...]
Now that’s comedy.
Posted in Other geekery on 3 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
An Amazon.com customer review of The Atlas of Middle-Earth (Revised Edition):
“I got really, REALLY lost using this. I’m not sure who to contact about this, but it’s I-27, not I-29, that runs through Lubbock.”
It’s the little things.
Posted in Other geekery on 27 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
I saw this on a printer at work today and almost peed myself.
I know it’s a bit tough to see, but yes, it reads “PC LOAD LETTER.”
Who has time for Cliffs Notes(tm)?
Posted in Other geekery on 26 June 2008 | No Comments »
I have no idea who this guy is, but I stumbled upon one of his posts while browsing Digg. Ben Joseph has condensed a few literary classics down to three lines or less. Some of it is brilliant.
My favorite:
Paradise Lost
ADAM: Paradise has arbitrary dietary restrictions?
DEVIL: They’re really more like guidelines.
GOD: Incorrect.
Looking for an idea for my birthday gift?
Posted in Other geekery on 20 June 2008 | 7 Comments »
Look no further.
Gizmodo has the scoop on the coolest thing ever created by man: the 3800-piece Lego Death Star(tm).
The set comes complete with 21 mini-figures, including Luke and Han in Stormtrooper gear.
The downside is it’ll cost you a cool $400. Looks like I’ll have to sell my speeder.
Dear Lego: I can pay [...]
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