Saturday, May 10, 2008

This is one of the best things I’ve seen on The Colbert Report. Stephen interviews astronaut Garrett Reisman live from the International Space Station.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Funniest blog comment of the (yester)day (from The Other Steve at Balloon Juice):

Do you suppose Hillary will shout “LEEEEROY JENKINS!!” as she enters the Convention Hall?

If you don’t get the joke, look below the fold…

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Too funny, be this.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

I used to work at iVillage way back in its early days, so I found this funny:

Yesterday I spent some time talking on the phone with someone who used to work at iVillage, and it led to a discussion of the types of content women search for online. My assumption was “recipes, healthcare, childcare and games”. He then told me that it was almost a legendary inside joke that the two biggest search terms on iVillage were perpetually “Chicken” and “Fellatio”.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

I woke up this morning to hear that horrible clacking noise (unfortunately, I’ve heard it before on an older computer) coming from my external hard drive and see a “delayed write failed” error message on my computer.  Fortunately, I don’t have anything critical on the external ... mostly just a lot of MP3s. I was hunting around the innertubes for data recovery options when I came across this blog post that says that freezing your hard drive works as a short-term solution for data recovery.  Judging from the comments on the blog post (and on other message boards I found afterwards) this appears to have worked for some people. I don’t think Rumproast gets a lot of geek traffic, but has anyone successfully tried this?  Also, can I just put the whole external hard drive, case and all, into the freezer or do I have to crack it open and take out the disk (or disks)?

We now return to our regular non-geek programming.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Did you ever wonder what the show 24 would be like if it was set in 1994? No?  Well, for starters, it would be much funnier.

(via FREEmasons)

Monday, October 01, 2007

My buddy and ex-workmate Will runs the wonderful geek blog sublimeguile and, for you Firefox users, he’s got an easy-to-follow guide on how to download video embeds from YouTube, etc.  Go check it out. His post about FFFFound images is quite eye-opening as well.