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- How to hack your beloved nerd
- Not everyone who reads this blog is a geek, but if you aren't a geek but are browsing Geekend, it's probably because you've got geeks in your life and want to understand them better. Well, Rands In Repose has summoned up The Nerd Handbook to help. This...
- Tags: Geek, Blogging, Productivity, Internet, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Annalee Newitz -- She's Such a Geek
- On May 8, 2008, I posted a podcast interview with Annalee Newitz in the TR Out Loud blog on TechRepublic. I realize that a lot of Geekend fans and faithfuls may not have even seen the post, much less listened to the podcast, which is why I am posting this...
- Tags: Geek, Podcasts, Internet, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Have a retro Geekend with Nethack
- You've spent all your hard-earned cash on a rig that will power the state of New York in order to play the most amazing, state-of-the-art games available. You've honed your skills to the point that your mind and your reflexes are sharper than Occam's Razor. And over on your Xbox...
- Tags: Geek, Games, Personal Technology, Jack Wallen
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Why is science fiction considered a "geek" genre?
- Our good friends at SFSignal must have run out of qualified candidates to to interview, because they asked Jay "The Trivia Geek" Garmon to answer the same question posed to Kevin J. Anderson, John Scalzi, Keith DeCandido, Carl V. from Stainless Steel Droppings, James from Big Dumb Object, and Angela...
- Tags: Money, Geek, Science Fiction, Productivity, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Geek alternatives to Valentines Day
- Stereotypically, geeks are foremost amongst the tragically single on Valentines Day (which is strange, because almost all the geeks I hang out with are married). Thus, for those of you who are seeking out an alternative reason to suffer through February 14, in lieu of seppuku, we offer these seven...
- Tags: Geek, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Webcomic: When fanboys grow up
- The wisdom of xkcd explains how geek fanboys may grow older, but they never really grow up. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Wisdom, Geek, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- There are 56 species of geek. Which one is you?
- Scott Johnson of the Webcomic Extra Life has created this poster depicting 56 distinct species of geek, allowing you to quickly identify which best describes you by process of visual association. I have at times fallen into several categories, including: Super Geek ...
- Tags: Geek, Species, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Geek Gifts 2007: iAXE393 USB-Guitar for the musical geek
- Behringer's iAXE393 USB-Guitar is a practical gift for the musical geek. This Plug n' Play Rock instrument is available at various locations. From Berhinger's Web site, select Check Regional Availability and then Dealer Locator to find the most convenient retail store. The price in the United States, according to Behringer,...
- Tags: Software, Geek, Behringer, iAXE393, Tools & Techniques, Management, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2007-11-21
- The Shard (exe)
- eBook "The Shard"--read a free part, pay to read the rest. A school field trip to the ruins of Hawkstone Priory and the chance of discovery of a charmed fragment of medieval window glass starts a chain of events that will send a computer geek battling zombies, cursed monks Goths,...
- Tags: Window, Geek, Construction, Productivity, E-books, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-10-18
- Geeks should learn communication, so why aren't suits required to learn technology?
- In my job, I have to keep close tabs on the statistics surrounding our site usage. I have access to spreadsheets that show every number I could ever want to know and even some I don't want to know. Most of the time, I can extrapolate the info I need,...
- Tags: Problem, Geek, Spreadsheet, Productivity, Professional Development, Career, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Pics: Geek Peeks of the Week
- Build a Pac-Man arcade machine costume for Halloween Geeks love classic arcade games (Pac-Man). Geeks love dressing up in elaborate costumes Klingons. Thus, it was only a matter of time before some one came up with a costume that is an arcade game. Behold, the homebrew Pac-Man...
- Tags: iRobot Roomba, Geek, Easter Egg, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Geeky Halloween costumes range from fantastic to funny to faux tech
- Halloween is right around the corner. Take a look at these wacky costumes and maybe get some ideas for a geeky costume of your own. by Ken Keesling
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Ken Keesling, off topic, costumes, geek, halloween
- Image galleries 2007-10-17
- Not everyone can (or wants to) be a geek
- Geeks, particularly those of us who work in IT, are not generally tolerant of users who are not technically savvy. We have pet names for their issues (PEBCAT or ID10T errors) and tell horror stories about unplugged computers and CD-ROM coffee cup holders. However, there are plenty of users who...
- Tags: Industry, Geek, Computer, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- The Geek's Guide to New TV Shows (updated)
- Here's your friendly neighborhood Trivia Geek's rundown of TV shows debuting this fall that should appeal to the sci-fi/fantasy/horror geek audience -- now with premiere dates! Links to video previews and IMDB listings abound, so let the bandwidth hogging begin! Chuck [Monday, September 24, 8 P.M., NBC]...
- Tags: Concept, NBC, Here, TV, Difference, Geek, Hilarity, FOX, Chronicles, Corporate Governance, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Last-minute SysAdmin Appreciation Day gifts
- The last Friday in July (this year, July 27) is Sysadmin Appreciation Day SAAD, an unjustly obscure holiday wherein all consumers of techno-goodness are encouraged to recognize and reward the unsung geeks that keep our hi-tech networks up and running. ThinkGeek has a selection of suggested SAAD gifts, but true...
- Tags: System Administrator, Geek, Gift, ThinkGeek, Keyboards, Networking, Hardware, Peripherals, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Video: Real-life Transformers
- Here are some real-life Transformers, as in really need to get a life geeks in Transformers costumes that actually transform. Bizarre, but fascinating -- and probably better than the new movie. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Video, Geek, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- Help name TechRepublic's new gadget blog to win free TechRepublic swag
- TechRepublic is preparing to launch a new blog that will be a spinoff of our popular Geekend blog. The new blog will take a practical approach to gadgets and digital lifestyle technologies, including consumer electronics, gaming systems, mobile tech, and much more.The problem is that we are having a hard...
- Tags: Digital lifestyle, Gadgets, Geek, geekend, Geeks
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Awesomobile: The ultimate geek driving machine
- What do you get when you merge the starship Enterprise, an X-wing fighter, the General Lee, a time-traveling Delorean, and Herbie the Love Bug? Why, the Awesomobile Mark VI, of course. From the demented mind of PvP creator Scott Kurtz comes this must-have t-shirt, depicting the ultimate geek driving (and/or...
- Tags: Geek, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Do Geeks need caffeine because they are geeks, or are they geeks because they use caffeine?
- Most geeks I know are caffeine-aholics. They are addicted to their caffeine, though there are many sources for their individual addictions. My husband is a Mt. Dew addict. He even drinks it before bed. I know many who are coffee drinkers, Coke or Pepsi guzzlers and a few who prefer...
- Tags: Geek, Food & Beverage, Games, Manufacturing, Personal Technology, Rebecca Ward
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- The MIT water computer--see ya, electrons!
- Nifty; much better than my feeble attemptsI once did something similar with Tinker Toystm, but it was probably slower and less reliable. A good part of the problem that I came across when doing my gate implementation (XOR, OR, AND, NOT) was that after a while, parts would come...
- Tags: computer, filker0, geek, hardware, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Discussion threads 2007-02-16
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