Battlestar Galact-egg-a: Geeking Out With Easter Decorations

If you follow my Twitter feed, you may have noticed some odd happenings yesterday evening. I decided, in light of the Easter holiday approaching, to take a rather different approach to egg decorating. Of course it’s geeky. I thought of a few options, as far as selection. I used to paint pop art portraits in […]

Treating Your IT Pro Right: The Two-Way Street of Communication and Respect (Sponsored by Canon)

This post is sponsored by the new Canon imageCLASS MF800 Series color printers, designed to help you get through IT. With features like a remote user interface (for control) and a 3.5” color LCD touch screen (for efficiency), imageCLASS printers give your office the type of reliable output and efficiency you demand from your printer – giving SYSADMINS […]


10 Practical Tips for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

While a zombie apocalypse probably won’t happen, there is enough zombie saturation in the media right now that if you were ever gonna start planning on how to survive one, now would be the time. So what do you think you would do? Who would you team up with? Where would you go? The Walking […]

IT Horror Stories: Upgrading got you down? Don’t let the bugs win! (Sponsored by Canon)

This post is sponsored by the new Canon imageCLASS MF800 Series color printers, designed to help you get through IT. With features like a remote user interface (for control) and a 3.5” color LCD touch screen (for efficiency), imageCLASS printers give your office the type of reliable output and efficiency you demand from your printer – giving SYSADMINS […]

Chart Shows You How To Win on Jeopardy

  Nathan Yau over FlowingData looked at all the daily double placements over all 31 seasons of this historic game show and worked out an average to where the daily doubles usually fall on Jeopardy. We are not saying you use this chart and get on Jeopardy you could leave a millionaire. We are telling you […]

Photomath: The App That Does Your Math For You

I look at the Photomath app, and I get very sad. Not that it will make future generations stupid or any such nonsense. No, I am mad that it didn’t exist while I struggled through algebra. That was essentially a semester I spent barely treading water, and knowing this would exist one day would’ve eased […]

For the Adventurous: Mix Your Coke with Milk Because Science

So there is a ‘thing’ going around the interwebz right now about mixing coke with milk and what happens as a result. I, myself, am not sure it is something I would ever want to do, but apparently it is the “Coke and Mentos” of 2015. It is a reaction of the Phosphoric Acid contained […]