Category: Geekery
Just got this spam in my work email: I AM A SEAMAN SEEKING YOUR CONSENT TO TRANSFER MY COMMISSION OF ($25,5M) TO YOU FOR SAFE KEEP.I SHALL COMPENSATE YOU WITH 40% OF THIS FUND, WHEN RECEIVED INTO YOUR ACCOUNT, SEND YOUR FULL NAMES,PHONE NUMBERS.AND CONTACT ADDRESS FOR PROCESSING OF THE FUND IN YOUR NAME BY […]
As promised, I now have photos of my cool new desk. And, even better, I have pictures of the various stages of setting up my desk1! When we left off yesterday, the desk was sitting in the middle of my living room, with its drawers piled up hither and fro, and my computer was sitting […]
Then go here to win some memory! Over on Tyler Ingram’s blog, you can win a 4GB SDHC memory card from Kingston. And all you have to do is comment on that blog posting. And if you blog about it (as I am doing here), you get a second entry in his contest. But you […]
Cred in the tubes of the Internets, if you will. I was featured today as a Geek Girl Blogger on Spyjournal:
As you know, I heart Scrabulous. So you can imagine my reaction when I saw this Tweet from J.K. Parker this morning: Sad that Scrabulous is gone from Facebook! 🙁 Tanya sent me a link to this article on the Wired website: The creators of a Scrabble knockoff responsible for countless hours at the online […]
I’m in between hockey playoff games – we won our game this morning against the last place team1 by a score of 13-12, but this evening we play the second place team, so we are going to have to work our butts off to have a chance at this one – so I will make […]
Leave it to my blog readers to keep me honest. I totally phoned in yesterday’s blog entry by not including a photo. In Dave‘s words: Whyfor no picture? I’ve seen pictures of all the outfits and shoes you’ve worn since 1984 but no keyboard picture. Whyfor? Far be it from me to deny my blog […]
I’m typing this on my beloved Hermione1. On the bus. And not on the itty bitty Palm Treo keyboard. But on a full-sized2 wireless keyboard. I’ve been wanting one since… well, since I got Hermione, really. I had one for my old Palm Pilot but it was the kind that you plugged the Palm Pilot […]
Once before I presented you with a video that I said you should never, ever watch. While the video below isn’t nearly as graphic as that one, it does make you want to harikiri yourself. So really, just don’t watch it. You’ve been warned. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmIObmv2t6M] My favourite line is “we’ll live out our core values.”
While waiting for *4 hours*1 for my flight home from SFO yesterday, during which I was (a) Twittering with another BlogHer attendee who was also stuck at SFO, (b) talking on Skype, and (c) being looked at like I was crazy because I was talking loudly to my computer, I was also checking out whether […]