http://www.geek-online.com Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:02:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tomorrow morning at 6:00a I plan to start an experiment.  I plan to get 15 complete wake sleep cycles with a 90 minute power nap throughout my 2 weeks vacation.  You will notice that on the 15th cycle I wake up at the normal time.  Well time to get to ... http://www.geek-online.com/2008/11/16/an-extra-day-a-why-not-experiment/ Have you ever had a feature sneak up on you.  You do something on accident and then realize you discovered something.  Well that just happened to me.   I was using Chrome (the new google browser) and accidently dragged one of the tab off of the browser and it created ... http://www.geek-online.com/2008/11/16/wow-a-pleasant-suprise/ can be found here... http://www.geek-online.com/pax2008 http://www.geek-online.com/2008/09/05/pax-2008-a-retrospective-travel-journal/ Liger, an excellent Enforcer at PAX is planning to make Gabe and Tycho themed chainmaille shirts.  The shirts will be donated to the Child's Play charity.  She needs a bit of help buying the supplies.   I encourage anyone who can to visit her site and donate monies. http://www.geek-online.com/2008/09/05/chainmaille-is-childs-play/ The crew over at Benheck have done it again.  This time darkeru has embedded a NES in a NES cartridge.  To be fair it is not a full fledged NES but a 99-1 emulator.  But still this is dang impressive.  Congrats on finishing the project and making it on hack-a-day. http://www.geek-online.com/2008/07/07/portal-nes-in-a-cartridge/ So today was a nightmare at work and I didn't want to deal with a frozen dinner.  I went to Taco Bell instead.  Grilled Stuffed Buritto, mmmm. http://www.geek-online.com/2008/07/03/qpm-day-2-taco-bell/ Today is day 1 of the Quest for more PAX monies.  In my endeavor to save more money for PAX souvenirs I have take on the brave mission of eating budget frozen dinner as opposed to my normal diet of take-out/restaurants. Today lunch was Hungry-Man Southwest Style Chicken.  Grilled Chicken Patties ... http://www.geek-online.com/2008/07/02/qpm-day-1-hungy-man-southwest-style-chicken/ I will be heading to Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) on August 27.  I am going up a few days early to help with setup and to hang out with some of the other volunteers (aka Enforcers) face to face (Yay!!).  August is approaching way to fast and I realized I ... http://www.geek-online.com/2008/07/02/dieting-and-the-quest-for-more-pax-monies-the-tv-dinner-experiment/ The winners of the 2008 Prix Ars Electronica - International Competition of Cyberarts have been announced.  Two of the winners really stuck out to me. Julius von Bismarck's Fulgurator that can project an image into a photograph with out the photographer's knowledge.  It is almost an anti-persistence of vision device.  Instead ... http://www.geek-online.com/2008/06/25/messin-with-tourists/ I was stubling around neogaf and came across this gem of a forum thread "Limbo of the Lost stole from Oblivion, Morrowind, UT2K4, Diablo, Silent Hill, more?".  It looks like Limbo of the Lost borrowed (aka stole) art asset from a laundry list of games ranging for Unreal to Oblivion ... http://www.geek-online.com/2008/06/24/limbo-of-the-lost-borrowed-art-assets/