Archive for the ‘geekdom’ Category

Cool song

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

I ran across a nifty song by a band I've never heard of yesterday - it's called The Ballad of Barry Allen, by Joe's Big Ego. For the non-comic-geeks in the audience, Barry Allen was the Silver Age Flash in DC Comics. A short history of the Flash follows. Even if ...

Holy moly!

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004

I can't believe I missed this - back on December 7th, Disney released Gargoyles - The Complete First Season on DVD. I loved this show when it aired in the mid-90's; I was active in the online fan community (I ran a speculative Gargoyle biology mailing list for a while, ...

Running with the Garmin Forerunner

Monday, August 16th, 2004

(in the spirit of "Running with the iPod") So I've had my Garmin Forerunner 201 for just about three weeks now, and I've had sufficient time to develop some impressions about it. In this post, I'll talk a little bit about how the Garmin works, how I've used it, and the ...

New Toy

Monday, July 26th, 2004

I finally broke down and did it - I got a Garmin Forerunner 201 yesterday night. I walked around with it a little today (our house is 292.6 feet from the nearest fire hydrant!), but since it was my rest day tomorrow will be the first time I really get ...

Schedule tweak

Thursday, July 1st, 2004

I'm supposed to do another three miles today, and in fact I went to bed last night fully intending to wake up and get on that first thing this morning. The only problem was I was doing the going-to-bed a little later than normal, as my fiancee and I went ...