Random meanderings you're probably not interested in…
You know, I really need to get in the habit of posting here at least once a week. I guess I’m just busy or lazy or something like that. Anyway, I figured a status update is in order, so I’ll run over a few quick one-liners to let people know what’s up. First, for all … Continue reading “Status update”
Let’s see, haven’t posted here in a while… what to say… Lorelle invited me to make some guest posts this month on her blog. I wrote a short little technical ditty about how to integrate Microformats and WordPress Themes. If you’re into WordPress, or CMS’s in general, it’s worth a look. Since I use this … Continue reading “Minor highlights of the life of Otto…”
Gizmodo is running a live blog of the new Apple iPod announcements today. Interesting reading. Quick rundown: New iPod Shuffle – price lowered to $79 for 1GB New iPod Nano – thinner, slightly wider. $149 and $199 for 4GB and 8GB New iPod Classic – basically the same as existing iPods, but thinner and cheaper. … Continue reading “New iPods today”
According to the rumor mill, Google is creating their own phone. I could definitely get behind this one, as opposed to the iPhone. They haven’t actually decided on a design yet, but some obvious things that will be included: Google Maps Google Calendar GMail GPS Google Talk Probably Google Documents and Spreadsheets Considering the recent … Continue reading “Now this is a phone I might get…”
This may be the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s an all-in-one brewing machine made by a photographer at Popular Science. He spent about $4300 making it, but it brews, chills, ferments, and pours, all in the same device. Apparently, a little manual intervention is required, in the form of swapping CO2 hoses around to … Continue reading “My God, it's full of Beer…”
I found a site a while back that has a rather interesting concept to it. So I used it when I had the chance, and today it paid off in a very nice way… See, Amazon guarantees their prices for 30 days. So if you buy something from them and the price drops within 30 … Continue reading “Amazon Price Drops and You”
Paul found a thing called MyFountain on somebody’s website. It’s basically an automated bartender. Now, I’ve seen these before, but mostly as do-it-yourself type projects. The basic idea is that you get a bunch of liqour and beer and such, hook it up to a bunch of pumps and tubes, and hook those to a … Continue reading “Virtual Bartender”
While it happens every year, it’s still worth seeing as the peak time falls on a weekend this year. The peak time for the shower will be early Sunday night/Monday morning (2 am), but it will be going on Saturday night too, which is when I’ll probably head up to the roof to see what … Continue reading “Perseids Meteor Shower this Weekend”
So, I finally caved and bought a big HDTV. I talked about getting one before, but I’m essentially broke at the moment, having spent so much on moving and such. However, I finally compromised my inherent desire for “the best” and decided to get one that “will work for now”. But, everybody that commented there, … Continue reading “Finally bought a TV”
So I purchased a Roomba at the Woot off the other day. After I bought the condo, a good friend of mine (who also lives here) mentioned the device, but didn’t know the name. Being the consummate geek that I am, I knew he was talking about the Roomba, and furthermore knew that they had … Continue reading “Fun with a Roomba”
