Geeky Things to do during the Summer

Technology and the outdoors... a match made in Heaven.I’m sure like many other college students across the globe, I have been sleep and fun deprived for  the last week (minus Josh’s birthday) because I have been studying for finals. After almost missing both of my final times (one because  I mixed up the times, the second because I didn’t wake up), today was my first day of complete relaxation. What did I do? Slept in, got creative on Garage Band, enjoyed lunch at Mongolian Barbecue, bought a bunch of Chuck  Palahniuk books, paid a visit to the Apple store, and now I am working on my website. Needless to say, it is time, fellow college kids and everyone else for that matter, to enjoy summer and nerd out. These two concepts, typically not paired together, are fully capable of functioning in a manner attractive to geeks of all kind. Continue reading

Bored? Here’s 25 Geeky Things to Fill Your Time

boredSo I was sitting around the house trying to think of what to post today and it occurred to me it might not be a bad idea to talk about some of things I do (or want to do) when I’m bored. Anyways,I looked around for a while and came up with a list of 25 geekish things to do when you’ve got nothing to do!  I tried to compile a pretty decent array of activities but If I missed anything, be sure to let me know, will ya?

  1. Install Ubuntu on your PS3
  2. Watch Pirates of Silicon Valley
  3. Install custom firmware, DD-WRT on your wireless router
  4. Check out Slashdot
  5. Automate your home with X10
  6. Jailbreak your iPhone
  7. Go geocaching
  8. Make your Xbox 360 sentient
  9. Read through Marvel’s archives
  10. Listen to MC Frontalot
  11. Re-organize your widgets
  12. Bake a Portal cake
  13. Learn to make your own CAT5 Ethernet cables
  14. Edit Wikipedia
  15. Check out The Best Page in the Universe
  16. Make your houseplants tweet
  17. Create a backup strategy
  18. Read Penny Arcade
  19. Install Synergy to control multiple computers from the same keyboard and mouse
  20. Check your realm’s status on WoW
  21. Try out a text only browser
  22. See how much better the news is when it is, in fact, auto-tuned:
  23. Check out a bunch of computer setups way sexier than yours
  24. Visit the minus world
  25. Finally, check out a far better guide to fighting boredom