Woot's it all about?

Cheap tech is my bread and butter. And one of my favorite places to buy it is Woot. They sell 1 item a day- this concept is not the most original, but with its off-center style write-ups, and offerings of good items at great prices, it is well worth a daily look.

Once a stock of remainders from Woots past build up it becomes time for the Woot-Off; an orgy of unbridled commercialism at its finest. Item after item is thrown to the wooter wolves in a frenzy buying.

I also suggest looking at Shirt.Woot! for some brilliant shirts from time to time at the low low price of 10 American Dollars. A number of interesting things surrounding the world that is Woot are out there, but I will leave the discoveries of the screaming monkeys, bags of crap, and flashy yellow lights are yours to discover.

By the way............
WOOT-OFF!!!

OMG- A Gamer's Grace

A li'l under the weather and exhuasted from a long few weeks, so no real update today. But since I like you I will share with you a grace me and a few friends wrote up one day-

Gawd is 1337

Gawd is gr8, Gawd is 1337.
let us thk him 4 wat we eat.
bi hz hax we all have snx.
thnk u Gawd 4 apple jax.
Thx b 2 Gawd. Jezus is teh Pownage.

-ltr

Geek Projects: Comput-NES

So about six years ago my old Toshiba lappy's screen bit the dust. Looking over the parts in a small bin (b/c my repair attempts were less then successful) a thought occurred to me- I want to build an emlation computer inside of an old NES. After further striping down of the case around the components of my former lappy, I discovered that the Mo-bo was just a little too large. This Idea has returned to me over the last few years from time to time, but my lack of time and cash (mostly the cash) prevented me from starting the project. But now I have little money in my bank account and this new video has energized me to start on the build.

So be on the look out for post as I meander down the creation path.

Syfy Channel?

Check this out- Syfy

The Sci-Fi Channel has made an announcement that they will be re-branding themselves this summer as "Syfy". They will be turning to more "imagination" based programing trying to capture a larger viewing audience. This means more junk science shows about ghost and "real" sightings of Big Foot and less episodes of any number of old Star Trek shows and other classic sci-fi shows.
I like the cheese-tastic made-for-Sci-Fi movies staring the man-mosquito monster and space alien goo inhabiting a recently thawed woolly mammoth. Its geek bait. And it is exactly that geek audience that built the brand; now they are turning their back on them. Replacing Flash Gordon with UFC (like that has anything to do with sci-fi or Imagination) and TNG with Ghost Hunters. I have watched the degradation of one of my favorite networks for a while. Though they have experienced a surge in viewership recently, they are running a high risk of losing their core audience.
to them i say- Suck it Trabeck!

Only Thing We Have to Beer Is Beer Itself.

I like Beer.
Plan and simple.
I have noticed a lot of geeks do too. So I have decided to make my love of the brew part of this blog. Every thing from reviews of micro-brews and imports and my slightly mis-guided adventures in home-brewing.

I am now looking for suggestions of beers to review and recipes to try brewing.

Of Dice and Men

The last 2 nights an abridge form of my gaming group got together and decided to try our hand at a game of Alernity. Overall I was pleased by the results. It was fairly easy compared to our normal DnD-3.5 and though there was a small learning curve, it was fast to learn. With most everything based on skills (no feats to maul over) and a varying success damage system made even it possible for the far less powerful characters to contribute to the action. Originally published in 1999, it has sat on a shelf in the gaming bookcase for at least the last 3 years without as much as being read through. Chances are you have a few similar game systems sitting around you house like this (the TMNT and Wheel of Time RPGs just sit there taunting us) but you never get a group together that is willing to try that new exotic and quirky flavor of pen and paper. I highly sugest trying these almost forgoten gems (or turds) out and see what they have kept secret for so long.

(back on point) We had a pretty great time, even the first-timer gf in the group had was laughing and enjoying her self, and we got to talking about possibly pod-casting our gaming sessions. We tend to run good modals, have interesting approaches to problems, and get distracted by the gold, gals, needless gore, and things that make the DM go "God Damn It". Though many gaming groups fall into this category, I though WTF lets go for it.
So be on the look-out for a Gaming Pod-cast soon. I have to figure the best way to record it and post; so it might be a few weeks.

So I know I am a black-hole for media but...

I Love Hulu...
OK so its not the coolest place on the net, and it's legal (which goes against some of my old ways), but I just Love Hulu. There is a huge stock of shows I forgot I used to love (ALF) and ones I never got around to seeing (Kitchen Confidential). Thogh it lacks some of the good shows that are currently comming out (CBS- Where the Hell Is My Big Bang?) it has many the day after they air.
I fear this is making my media addiction more efficent and there for under control (If you don't count the fact that I now have to watch all the A-Team that is availible now)

The Begining

The most epic journeys always start with the smallest steps and this waste of time starts with this crappy post. Suck it Trabeck!!