The MacBook Air is pretty. Pretty EXPENSIVE, amirite? Anyway it got me thinking. In the world of laptops, is it better to be thin or better to be small? I say small! Sony’s kind of had the small laptop market to itself for the past few years. But with prices for a Vaio TZ starting…
I hate getting oil changes because I don’t know anything about cars. Oil change places like Jiffy Lube or EZ Lube tell me to get my oil changed every 3000 miles. My car’s own manual tells me to change the oil every 7500 miles, so already that’s enough of a difference to cause me some…
I AM THE GUARDIAN OF FOREVER, BITCHES! Yes, that is THE Guardian of Forever, from City on The Edge of Forever. (TOS, season 1, episode 28) Saturday we drove out to Long Beach to see Star Trek: The Tour, a traveling exhibit of Star Trek props. I’ve never been to the Star Trek Experience at…
If you haven’t played Portal yet, this won’t make much sense. But if you have, it’s hilarious.
Working at a grocery store might be a fun job – especially if you really like cooking and/or eating. I enjoy both! How about you? The perks are numerous!– Your pal Dallas in the produce department always lets you know when a fresh load of strawberries are on their way in!– Pete in the bakery…
Stop! Hammertime!
My parents bought me a shortwave radio for my last birthday. It’s a Grundig/Eton G5/E5. This little beauty- A scanner is great for spying/listening to things going on within about a hundred miles of where you are, but to listen to worldwide broadcasts in the HF bands you need a radio that can tune a…
Blogger is not, as the name implies, adept at running blogs. My Atom feed has changed locations to workaround some of Blogger’s horribleness. Update your readers to point to http://brett.newdream.net/blogarchive/journal.xml
When a new season of TV starts up it’s always hard to tell which shows will last for another season and which ones will be taken off the air before the network even shows all the episodes that they paid for (see Firefly). We didn’t watch Heroes when it started, but it’s got this great…
The coolest news to come out of CES this year so far could be Gefen’s plans to introduce a way to run HDMI over coax. The commenters over at Gizmodo all seem to see this as a way of replacing HDMI to save a few bucks on cables, but they’re not looking at the big…