Geek-a-Rama

This is a pic of the boy's ELink Flashcart for the GBA. Works pretty well for gaming and the like, but the textfile thing seems to come up nada - can't seem to get the burn software to load the textfile onto the thing. Too bad, as it fits flush to the GBA slot and if used with my Game Boy Micro it would make a very portable digital boredome spanker.

Playing with the cameras a bit lately. I have quite a few - the one with my cell phone is with me most of the time, but it is flaky and you have to be in absolutely optimal conditions for a good pic to come out. I have a 2 megapixel Canon A60 (and I am kinda sad that it can't run CHDK, the firmware add-on that allows you to run software on your camera). I also have a 5 megapixel camera (Nikon, I think) that I inherited when the daughter upgraded. It has been tortured, but is kinda small, kinda light, and takes a good pic. Now I just need to use them and take pictures.

Just watched Eragon - read the book quite awhile back and the movie seemed to take most of the garlic from it. It was still good, but it could have been so much more. I still need to read the other books in the series.

And speaking of viewables - this weeks Christmas episode of Chuck was pretty good - check it at Hulu or wahatnot if you are into such things. Also getting down with The OC's Chrismukkah episodes.

I recently came into a DVD recorder (the kind like a VCR - not for your computer) and have been playing. I have tried saving to DVD things that I had on the DirectTV DVR - namely The Last Starfighter. It does well, although it wants to create menus and whatnot. Have to play some more.

I also just found out that Wikipedia Search is CASE SENSITIVE!

Hoping that the buddy peach tea that I got will taste ok. It will suck if now that I have 20 packets of the stuff I find out it suks.

Geek Exploration

This is the first sighting of the Peek - a Target exclusive email device. $100 for the device and then $20 a month for unlimited email. Compatible with many email services, including Yahoo and Gmail. Neat, but $20 beans a month will keep me from it. If it dropped to $10 a month, I'd probably already have one.

Saw a demo station for Nintendo's Guitar Hero On Tour (for the DS portable) the other day and thought it was really neat. Has a hardware controller that you plug into the GBA slot (slot 2) and then you use a "pick" stylus to strum. They had it hooked up to some good speakers, so it sounded really good.

I saw a hog on the highway this morning - must have gotten loose from one of the farms around here. I took a pic but it didn't save for some reason (operator's headspace, most likely). He was gone when we went back through.

Into IBC Diet Root Beer lately - good stuff.

Saw many mini-laptops today, including both Linux and XP versions of the Eee PC and the MSI Wind. Nice... played with the Linux Eee PC (4 gig surf for $300 at BB and $279 at Target) - it was ok. Internet worked well, and it did have solitaire on it. I still think the Acer Aspire One is a much better laptop, though.

More Random

==>> Lately I have been deep into reading etext - and I have reverted to methods of old. This is a photo of my Game Boy Advance Movie Player (GBAMP). This is my favorite GBA cart ever. I have owned two - the first bit it in an unfortunate flashing accident (I tried to embed a NES emulator into the cart firmware and muffed it horribly - bricked it big time). A friend who later got one decided it was excess after he upgraded his geekables and hooked me up with his.

With the GBAMP you can read text files (my main thing), play video, play music, look at pics, or run a few homebrew games and emulators for the NES, GB, GBC, SMS, and I think there was a Coleco emulator, as well. Like I said, I mainly read on the thing.

==>> I am watching The OC - finally saw the last episode of season 3 last night and man, did it make me sad. Deep into season 4 now... DVD's take the wait out of watching a series.

==>> Made peanut butter cookies tonight - no biggie, the dough was pre-made, so all I had to do was drop them on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes.

==>> Don't remember where I got it, but this is a bookmarklet that allows you to change colors on a page on the fly - drag it to the bookmarks toolbar or whatever and click when the page is too bright - Darken Page

==>> Came into a USB 2.0 hub - $3 in a bargain bin at one of the office supply chains (don't remember which). Got two, and gave one to the boy.