Archive for 'Nerd' Category
Einstein’s Arcade Closing
One month and 17 days ago an Austin friggin’ institution closed it’s doors. I suppose that it is a true sign of the times when an arcade in Austin, right across the street from the University of Texas, can’t generate enough business that arcade gaming is over…until the holo-intranasal-simulators are available.
Favorite Books :: SAT Scores…
The love of my life (no, not you, Bryan Thompson) completed her college English requirements by writing a paper on Lolita. So, it is for her that I present this web page which purports (admittedly with almost zero statistical validity) to show a correlation between college SAT averages and favorite books.
HD-DVD Gets N(etfl)ixed
I received this in my email today. (Click to see it pop-up full size.)
Planned Obsolescence
Last night, sometime between 7:00 and 8:00, while I was playing Assassin’s Creed, my Xbox 360 emitted a horrible grinding noise from its optical disk drive. The game gave a couple of audio glitches, but the drive quieted down and everything seemed fine, and I was happy to pretend like I wasn’t in for another […]
Oh Where oh where has my little woot shirt gone?
(First Post to BPB!) I ordered a really cute shirt from Woot on 1/10. Johnny Rollerfeet already got his, so I checked the tracking on mine… only to find that my shirt has been on quite a US tour: Carrollton to Austin – via LA and Jersey City? Is Woot using airline miles for shipping? […]
Blue versus Red II
More wood for the high definition media format war fire. One of my weekly websites is High-Def Digest so I can see what new discs to buy. Check out the offerings for next week. I’m still not saying that Blu-Ray is winning, but I think JT may attract more buyers than Zimbabwe. I’m even tempted […]
WordPress Hints For BPB Posters
You may remember when we started using Brad Choate’s textile back in the old days. Well, it is still available here on our new WordPress site. If you like taking shortcuts you should really read up on Textile shortcuts as it makes quick and simple work of that complicated html crap. The best example: you […]
CIO Learns From Past Mistakes
As former CIO for companies employed by two of the residents of my home, Randy Mott is derided for turning IT into a corporate segment that resembled an Olsen twin — the one who needs to eat a hamburger or two before she shrinks so far she becomes a blackhole. Now he’s telling his IT […]
Welcome To The New Site
Anyone out there who actually knows how to use WordPress? …maybe just a couple (bajillion) people… Well, now you can add me to the list as I migrate Backporch Beer to a new tool, and I start looking for Widgets and Plugins to clutter our little blog away from blog. To those of you who […]
OMG! It’s Steve Jobs!
John contended yesterday that Macworld was wasted on me, and I think he may be right. Today I attended what is probably the biggest annual orgy of geekery, the Macworld keynote. For those who don’t know, this is the thing where Apple CEO/figurehead Steve Jobs comes out on stage and says what’s up and what’s […]
If I wanted to read, I’d go to class.
You probably hear a lot about the hookers and blow at Macworld, but today for me was full of the part they don’t tell you about: career development. After a fortifying continental breakfast and walking coffee, I rolled up to the Moscone Center this morning and got in the 30-minute plus registration line. Fortunately, I […]
Weighing On Blu v Red
You think I’m starting political discourse and you are only partially correct. I am simply putting to bytes the thoughts I have expressed verbally to anyone willing to listen (or who feels some obligation to pretend to care about my opinion) on the subject of Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD. As a healthy consumer of electronics I […]
AT&T Residential Chat Denier of Services
I had a little problem with my AT&T phone bill this month so I went online to review my account. While I was wholly unsuccessfully flailing around their website trying to figure out what package deal I could get for local phone service and DSL, a window popped up offering me a live chat session […]
Sam Francisco, open your golden gates
Today I arrived for my first real visit to San Francisco. I was here for half a day in 2003, having driven up from a conference in San Jose in a rented Mustang convertible. But the city that day was more of an afterthought to a beautiful top-down drive up highway 1 with a photo-op […]