When I fired up my laptop at the baseball game tonight, everyone laughed. Yet they were pretty keen to check it out, and seemed rather impressed that I was online and able to make a blog post. Most of the group gathered around to gawk and ooh and ahh at the sheer dorky coolness of… Continue reading Ubergeekery, Continued
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Ubergeekery
Yep, I’m blogging from SBC Park via free WiFi and a laptop. My co-workers are making fun of me, and rightly so. I just get a kick out of mobile connectivity, sue me. I honestly couldn’t care less about baseball. It’s one of the most tediously boring professional sports imaginable. Even car racing is slightly… Continue reading Ubergeekery
Bound, Y Tu Mamá También, American Wedding
Bound The plot: Girl meets girl, girls scam Mafia. Ask anyone about this movie and the first thing they’ll mention is steamy lesbian sex. Well, yes, there’s that, but it’s also a pretty decent mob caper thriller to boot. Gina Gershon is a recently-released ex-convict who finds work remodeling an apartment. The next door neighbors… Continue reading Bound, Y Tu Mamá También, American Wedding
Oh, See
I spent a long weekend (Fri–Tue) hanging with Jolene in her new digs in Orange County. It’s about a 6 hour drive on Interstate 5 from the East Bay to Los Angeles, then another hour or so on to Orange County. That is of course assuming light traffic, which I learned the hard way is… Continue reading Oh, See
Cube, Thirteen Conversations, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Cube The plot: A group of people wake up to find themselves trapped in a mysterious cube-shaped maze laden with deadly booby traps. This was some obscure Canadian movie that was released direct to video in the US, where it built a minor cult following. I saw it a few years ago on the Sci… Continue reading Cube, Thirteen Conversations, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Ham Addendum: Image Replacement
I was just reminded of another means of obscuring an email address which I neglected to mention in my previous Maximizing Ham article: displaying an email address as an image. By using an image such as instead of in-line text, you fool harvesters who see nothing but code. This trick was pretty popular a few… Continue reading Ham Addendum: Image Replacement
Maximizing Ham
I have seven email addresses: two at this domain (one personal, one administrative), one at Yahoo, one at Hotmail, one at Gmail, one spamtrap at facehugger, and one at work. All of these addresses combined get an average of about 5 spams per day. Yes, I said five. Even the spamflow into my facehugger trap… Continue reading Maximizing Ham
Dog Soldiers, Garage Days, 1984
If you don’t already know, Netflix is a subscription-based online DVD rental service. You pay a monthly fee to get movies sent to you by mail, with prepaid return envelopes. You can keep the movies as long as you like, and you can pay a higher fee to get more movies out at one time,… Continue reading Dog Soldiers, Garage Days, 1984
The Future of g.fc
Every live website is perpetually under construction. That’s just the nature of the medium. I have some ideas for enhancements and changes to my own site, some of which I may even get around to in the near future. Many of them can be accomplished through integrating various WordPress plugins, so it’s just a case… Continue reading The Future of g.fc
Up for Review
The always-insightful D. Keith Robinson has sparked another interesting round of discussion with his two recent posts, attempting to pin down just what factors make a weblog worth reading. I, being a whiney lonely little nobody, lamented my lack of readership. But it wasn’t just whining, really, I swear. There’s a point to it. My… Continue reading Up for Review