Category Archives: Geek Stuff

Laptop Photo Frame – SketchUp

After assembling the prototype template using cardboard, I started taking external measurements. Refinements to cutouts were made and all dimensions were converted to millimeters. I’m strongly considering using Ponoko for this project. It’s a good excuse to try it out. … Continue reading

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Laptop Photo Frame – Cardboard Version

After stumbling across this site, I decided to dig up my old eMachine M5310 laptop and see what I could fashion out of it. Fair warning, I was lazy and didn’t feel like getting out a real camera. All of … Continue reading

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My Shiny New MacBook Pro

I’ve been saving up for a couple of years for a replacement laptop for my poor, old, busted eMachines m5310. The eMachine still runs, but it’s falling apart at the seams. There are cracks through the plastic, everything is a … Continue reading

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Buy my stuff on eBay!

I’m attempting to clean out and sell a bunch of stuff laying around the house. Partially to free up room, and mostly to raise the last bit of funding and savings that I need to buy a new MacBook Pro … Continue reading

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How to Wipe the Calendar on your iPhone

After numerous syncs with iTunes on multiple computers, all the calendar items on my iPhone were screwed up. Sometimes it was off by as much as a day. Sometimes I had duplicates on both days. Instead of manually deleting all … Continue reading

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EPB Fiber to the Home Q&A

It looks like EPB Chattanooga is starting to push their fiber to the home (FITH) initiative and start to generate the marketing buzz. And, being a geek, I’m very interested. I perused their (painfully) flash-only web site (http://www.epb.net/fiber) and one … Continue reading

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Testing the iPhone WordPress App

This is a test. This is only a test.

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Geekier than n00tz!

Just by a slim margin, but I am 2% geekier than n00tz. 63% Geek Created by OnePlusYou

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What’s Gnu?

Amy and I were in Target the other day and decided to peruse the board games while we were there. We came across a children’s game called “What’s Gnu?” that really seemed to stick out to me. If you’re a … Continue reading

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New Server is Moving to Atlanta!

Virtual private servers are cool. At the flip of a switch (and a little bit of a wait), the 15GB image of the server that phragmunkee.com now resides on will be moved from Fremont, CA to Atlanta, GA. About 60ms … Continue reading

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