Archive for the “Geekery” category
First trailer for HBO’s Game of Thrones
by Pete on June 14, 2010
There’s not much to it, but HBO has posted the first trailer for next year’s Game of Thrones series: I usually don’t go in much for stuff with swords and/or dragons, but I’ll admit, the novels totally sucked me in, (…)
Proposed Ubuntu 10.10 installer simpler, still not easy
by Pete on June 13, 2010
For the most part, I think the changes proposed for the installer in Ubuntu 10.10 look really good. Generally, I find the amount of attention that many Linux review tend to devote to the installer to be excessive. Still, it (…)
Ubuntu Update Notifier’s behavior makes me crazy
by Pete on June 11, 2010
Okay, so it’s not exactly new, but “The behavior of Ubuntu Update Notifier’s since the 9.04 release that I have not bothered figuring out how to fix for the last year drives me crazy” seemed like too long a title (…)
One stream to rule them all…
by Pete on May 30, 2010
A few weeks back, Adam Harvey posted on his blog about using Sweetcron, a self-hosted lifestreaming app. I should state here that I *hate* the term “lifestreaming”, but can’t think of a better replacement. The idea, however, is pretty cool—have (…)
Enough with the stupid “Story arcs are bad” stuff, already
by Pete on September 5, 2009
Io9 published a story a week or so ago entitled “What’s the Matter With Story Arcs on Television?” It starts out: Used to be, your television heroes explored the edges of the universe and confronted unimaginable nightmares. And then they’d (…)
One month with the HP Mini
by Pete on August 25, 2009
It’s coming up on one month since my HP Mini 110 arrived. Since I’ve had a few questions now about whether or not I like it, I figured I should spend a bit of time and space here to discuss (…)
Apparently they’re streaming from 2001…
by Pete on December 7, 2008
Today’s New York Times features a pretty interesting article about the role of college radio stations in the contemporary music scene. The focus of the article is WRPI, the radio station of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. “Great,” I (…)
Google Maps is trying to kill me
by Pete on September 19, 2008
Probably best not to follow these directions too closely…
Yes, I’m trying out Google Chrome
by Pete on September 3, 2008
Like every other web-using nerd, I’m trying out Google Chrome today. So far, it seems pretty cool—it’s fast, simple, and I have yet to run into any errors or broken web sites. I had some problems installing it, but that (…)
TR2N
by Pete on July 26, 2008
In which Pete revels himself as the ginormous nerd he is… Tron 2 Bootleg Trailer http://teaser-trailer.comby dragonball-movie Yeah, it’s about as crappy as a bootleg could be, but I gotta say, it looks pretty cool. I’m not sure about the (…)