Church Of The Geek

Happy holidays everyone…blahblahblah…;o)

Be good to one another.

written by Seth

Merry Christmas! Now get off your damn computer and enjoy the holiday!

-full set-

written by Jay

I’m really trying not to be an OS snob here. I’m really trying.
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written by Jay

So I was down in the basement with J tonight, and basically out of nowhere I stated that if there were two ‘events’ that happened in the sports world that I could change/stop from happening, they would be…

1) Bo Jackson’s hip injury

2) The Detroit Lions sucking so bad that Barry Sanders retired rather than play for them longer. 

That is all for now.

written by Seth

I for one welcome the birth of our scaly saviour.

written by Jay

So Wednesday started off normally enough. After my recent 6 month review, I’ve been trying much harder to get to work early everyday. The highway I take is really a just a big parking lot filled with what seems to be asian women behind the wheel of every car.

So after staving off death every morning on my way to work, I usually arrive a bit frazzled. This morning was no different. I hustle up to the building, and whip out my access card to get in.

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written by the_tourist

I’ve had my Macbook for six months now, and I just now noticed this cool little feature in OS X’s Dashboard. The weather widget shows all kinds of weather conditions (a couple weeks ago it impressed me with little freezing rain balls bouncing off it) and at night it switches to show cloud conditions with the moon. It wasn’t until just now that I noticed it tracks the exact phase of the moon too.

I opened up dashboard for the first time tonight and this is what I saw. Sure enough we are having a clear night and a new moon, meaning no moon visible at all.

Pretty nifty.

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written by Jay

Happy Friday y’all! Enjoy these quickie links, harvested from today’s browsing and news feed perusing:

The_tourist’s impact on Arizona spreads as a Tucson lab almost detonates a nuclear bomb. Yes, you read that correctly. At this point the story involves a bit of he-said-she-said but it’s not often you hear anyone make this kind of claim.
via DefenseTech

I’m willing to bet that when Guinness officially declared Bao Xishun the world’s tallest man he didn’t think he’d wind up shoulder-deep in a dolphin’s gullet. Impress-your-friends photo here.

One of the firms working on the “let’s gain some votes by spending stupid amounts of money” border fence has been caught (again) hiring illegal immigrants. Just in case you were wondering, here is the definition of irony.
via Metafilter

I think this kid watched The Blue Brothers too many times.

File this one under cool but slightly creepy: One of the latest heart replacement implants leaves the very-much-alive patient “without a pulse and without a measurable blood pressure.” No word yet on whether or not massive trauma to the head is the only way to kill these people.

Have a good weekend folks!

written by Jay

So, I’m back…and that’s not a bad thing

…It’s a GOOD thing…for all 7 of you that read the tripe that we post.

Someday maybe I’ll get around to posting something that matters.

Love,

Seth

written by Seth

As if I needed another reason not to buy a PS3, you know, besides the stupidly high price.

The only, I repeat ONLY, thing that made me get a PS2 was the huge amount of cheap used games available for it.

And now the PS3 butchers those PS1/PS2 games worse than an emulator.

Way to go Sony. Glad to see your quality checking standards haven’t changed much.

Video of this atrocity available at Joystiq.

Note that they can fix this with a firmware update. We’ll see what happens.

written by Jay