Geeky Cynicism
Critical Musings about Geeky life in General
Saturday Fail
Aug 21st
Well I woke up today and was looking forward to a nice breakfast somewhere. Then I was gonna go read the new book I got for my Kindle at a nice coffee shop here in the city. But no my dishwashers all backed up! With sewage! Grrr.
Oh the book I got is Neil Degrasse Tysons “The Pluto Files” its good I recommend it.
We’ve Angered the Sun God!
Aug 3rd
After being pretty quite during one of the longest solar minimums on record, early on Sunday the sun decided to unleash its pent up fury in a huge eruption of plasma and radiation. That also just so happens to be heading toward the Earth. But no need to worry, or go running for cover. The Earths magnetic field will shield our squishy selves from death and turn it into a pretty light show for the people up north. More >
Shame on you Blizzard!
Jul 31st
No LAN support for Starcraft 2? This is crap the point of a group gaming is to get 30 people into a room with lots of food and blast the shit outta them while shouting “Burn you n00b!” and not have your traffic even touching the cloud. Why are you killing Lans Blizzard? More >
Le Saints
Jul 2nd
Cedric noted the warmness of the trash fire burning in the barrel in front of him. He moved to get his hands near without the flames touching, just hovering them over absorbing the heat into his cold hands. It was a particularly cold night tonight, the sky black with clouds. More >
Just Because its Natural Doesn’t Mean it Won’t Kill You!
Jun 9th
My opinion of natural health supplements has always been that they might actually help and are natural so if they don’t they’re probably harmless. The most harm I could imagine them doing was for people to delay treatment taking useless stuff and having their condition get much worse. You know kind of like the nutters that have cancer, but instead of going to the doctor they try homeopathy, weird berries, and or praying. Then they die from something that probably could have been treated. You’re never going to get away from that kind of stupid even if they didn’t have health supplement stores people would just wonder into the woods to munch on mandrake root to cure their cancer or whatever. More >
Bill Maher is a Beacon of Light in our Dark Crazy World.
May 13th
Glad to see our crazy religous nutters are still no where near as bad as other peoples crazy religous nutters.
TvTropes.com a great way too eat up your day.
May 7th
So todays been a slow day at work and naturally being friday and all finding something really productive to do didn’t strike my fancy. So when I wasn’t handling minor issues that have come up, i’ve been on tvtropes.com learning way more info about the things that go on in fiction. More >
Jenny McCarthy now thinks she’s wrong on the whole vaccine thing!
Mar 3rd
When Jenny McCarthy set out on her foolish and unholy crusade to stop people from vaccinating they’re kids most people could understand where she was coming from. After all her son was diagnosed with autism shortly after he got his vaccines. More >
Homeopathy Loses Funding in the UK’s National Health System.
Feb 24th
For those of you that don’t know what Homeopathy is let me enlighten you. Homeopathy is when you take medicine and dilute it so much that the medicine is no longer present but the remaining water “remembers” the medicine was there and can heal people. Ok ok stop laughing some people will believe anything.
Personnel Heads Up Displays When?
Feb 23rd
Unlike most things you see in Sci-Fi movies one intriguing and very useful piece of tech might be closer than I previously thought. No I’m not talking about flying cars or killer robots. I’m talking about a personal heads up display. Something you wear as a pair of glasses or contacts that can display things like a GPS map or text messages. The University of Washington has made several contact lens style HUD’s that they’ve been testing and will hopefully develop into something that can be commercially made.