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The day Battlestar Galactica grew up
Yeah, so, the two-part season premiere (or, technically, midseason premiere) of Battlestar Galactica debuted last night, and I have to give an extraordinary shoutout to the show's writers,...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 14, 2006, 2:33 PM PST
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Why columnists often write awful blogs (like this one)
Not that I consider myself a "real" columnist--I only use the term because it's the easiest for people who know nothing about online content or Web development to grasp when they ask what I do for...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 12, 2006, 11:31 AM PST
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Wacky Linux Adventures Part 2: Debating distros
As we learned in our last episode, our patient is a Compaq Armada M300 notebook with some sporty aftermarket upgrades and a disavowed Windows XP license, meaning I can't log onto the system...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 11, 2006, 12:44 PM PST
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Wacky Linux Adventures Part 1: Hardware ignorance
Welcome one and all to the first of many Wacky Linux Adventures starring me, The Trivia Geek. Before we begin, let's set the stage a bit, shall we? I'm a complete technical fraud. Sure, I've...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 10, 2006, 12:54 PM PST
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The Six Myths of Corporate Creativity
Reddit led me to this Fast Company article, which does a typical but enlightening job of exploding the conventional wisdom of fostering and harnessing creativity in a corporate environment. Some...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 9, 2006, 10:33 AM PST
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Wacky Linux Adventures timeline...
The adventures will begin in about two weeks or so. I'll tag every blog entry (which will likely be weekly in nature) with wackylinux, so you guys can keep track, and there will be weekly...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 6, 2006, 11:59 AM PST
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Wacky Linux Adventures are go!
Ted Laun, our local tech support guru, just left my cubicle less one surplus Compaq Armada M300 laptop, with the parting instructions of "do whatever you want to with that." It's a frankensteined...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 3, 2006, 12:41 PM PST
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I'm ba-ack!
The long winter's nap of extended holiday vacationing is over, and I am returned to my bloggish duties. Good news on the Wacky Linux Adventures front, which I'll detail later, and plenty of...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 3, 2006, 7:27 AM PST
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Merry Christmahanukwanzakah, and a happy solstice feast to all!
In case I forgot to mention it, I'm AWOL until Jan. 3 (thank you, use-it-or-lose-it vacation policy), so don't be expecting much in the way of blogging until then. That said, I'd like to wish...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 24, 2005, 6:15 AM PST
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Ultimate Geek Gift: 8-foot Lego Star Wars Republic Battlecruiser
Latest example of fanboyism taken to the absurd extreme (whether its Lego fanboyism or Star Wars fanboyism, I'm not sure): Reddit showed me this eBay auction for an 8-ft scale Lego replica of a...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 16, 2005, 8:05 AM PST
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Found: Mission statement, Jedi Master
Longtime readers of this blog (oh, there you two are) will recognize that I haven't posted anything about my creative writing in a few months. That's mostly because I haven't been doing any....
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 15, 2005, 7:05 AM PST
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The Trivia Geek's Anti-Headlines for 2006
Below are five headlines that will only appear in alternate timelines, April Fool's jokes, or on The Onion's homepage in 2006. Google releases operating system Google has made it pretty clear it...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 14, 2005, 12:56 PM PST
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Spec Script: The Trivia Geek's Wacky Linux Adventures
It's pretty much an open secret that I am one of the least technical contributing writers on the TR staff, so what I'm about to propose is an attempt to A) turn my problem into a solution and B)...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 14, 2005, 11:21 AM PST
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Recovered from personal bio-combat
Those who know me known my reputation of rarely getting seriously ill. It's the one trade-off I've earned from massively overactive allergies--my immune system is always at Threat Level: Red, so...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 12, 2005, 12:53 PM PST
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Chess...with frickin' laser beams!
I just came across a BoingBoing post about Deflexion, a chess-like board game that involves bouncing a laser. Basically, it's a one-on-one game where each side gets a few Egyption-themed pieces,...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 6, 2005, 1:50 PM PST
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Slaying the 'release window' dragon
Steven Soderbergh is my hero. Not because I'm wild about all his movies--other than Ocean's Eleven, I'm not exactly gonzo about his filmography--but because he's dissing the Hollywood release...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 6, 2005, 12:03 PM PST
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Taipei 101 Tower Causing Earthquakes?
Taipei 101, the tallest building in the world, may be causing small earthquakes in the Taipei basin. According to geologists, earthquake activity has been up since the Tower was completed.
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Dark Energy and Einstein Converge
New astrophysics research reinforces the validity of the "cosmological constant," a fudge factor that Albert Einstein introduced into his equations to balance the force of gravity.
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Former Florida Navy Base May Become Spaceport
Cecil Commerce Center, named for a Navy blimp pilot, may soon become a commercial spaceport where civilians would be sent into space.This post originally appeared on an external website
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 rules for becoming a successful dictator!
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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The 11 Star Trek movies ranked worst to first
We've assembled a roll call of the worst episodes of every single Star Trek series. Now it's time to measure the worst and the best of Trek's silver screen adventures.
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 19, 2012, 1:17 PM PST | Latest comment by cmiller5400
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The five best Star Trek: Voyager episodes of all time!
Even Voyager haters have to concede the show flirted with greatness at times, as these five episodes ably demonstrate.
Posted by Jay Garmon | June 14, 2012, 11:23 AM PDT | Latest comment by Nytrydr
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The five best Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes of all time
Jay Garmon ranks the top five episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. See if your favorite TNG episode is on his list.
Posted by Jay Garmon | March 15, 2012, 9:05 AM PDT | Latest comment by swjslj@...
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The five best Deep Space Nine episodes of all time!
The five Deep Space Nine episodes that defied typical Star Trek boundaries and defined the franchise's most daring and unorthodox spinoff series.
Posted by Jay Garmon | May 17, 2012, 7:40 AM PDT | Latest comment by sniperlt@...
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The five worst Star Trek episodes of all time
More than a few of Kirk and Spock's original voyages were (ahem) less than stellar. We round out the bottom five for your reading...pleasure?
Posted by Jay Garmon | August 26, 2011, 5:00 AM PDT | Latest comment by P.F. Bruns
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The five worst Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes EVER!
Star Trek: The Next Generation is perhaps the pinnacle of the Trek franchise, which makes these five bottom-feeder episodes even more embarrassing.
Posted by Jay Garmon | September 23, 2011, 3:54 AM PDT | Latest comment by Slayer_
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75 words every sci-fi fan should know
Textbook barons Houghton Mifflin have of late proclaimed 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know. But if you're going to learn obscure words and concepts, it may as well be terms you're...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 14, 2008, 6:24 AM PST | Latest comment by ankits3a
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The five best Star Trek episodes EVER!
Behold the five greatest Star Trek episodes ranked fifth to first.
Posted by Jay Garmon | February 17, 2012, 7:03 AM PST | Latest comment by NickNielsen
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The five worst Star Trek: Voyager episodes EVER!
Voyager is rarely held up as the high point of the Trek franchise, but these five Delta Quadrant dumpster-fires are indisputably the lowest episodes of the low.
Posted by Jay Garmon | November 18, 2011, 6:23 AM PST | Latest comment by Rbrehm5912
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20 things that make Dr. Sheldon Cooper TV's biggest geek
What makes The Big Bang Theory's Dr. Sheldon Cooper so geeky? TechRepublic contributor Edmond Woychowsky shares his list of top 20 reasons.
Posted by Edmond Woychowsky | July 6, 2010, 4:05 PM PDT | Latest comment by wildcat375
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The five best Star Trek: Enterprise episodes of all time!
Say what you will about Enterprise, but these five episodes are worthy of the name "Star Trek."
Posted by Jay Garmon | July 12, 2012, 3:53 PM PDT | Latest comment by ffulton
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20 gift ideas for Star Wars fans
The LEGO Star Wars Death Star, the Jedi training manual, and a Yoda nutcracker are just three of the items featured in our Star Wars themed gift guide.
Posted by Wally Bahny | November 28, 2011, 12:42 PM PST | Latest comment by zizzleshizzle
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The top 25 best-selling video games...EVER!
Some folks are hyping Halo 3 as potentially the most successful video game ever, but a quick look at sales figures past shows that to be extremely unlikely--especially considering how low Halo 2...
Posted by Jay Garmon | September 25, 2007, 12:28 PM PDT | Latest comment by Paul.Witting@...
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The five worst Deep Space Nine episodes EVER!
The five most wormhole-sucking episodes in the history of Deep Space Nine, complete with unforgiving breakdowns.
Posted by Jay Garmon | October 21, 2011, 7:25 AM PDT | Latest comment by revelated
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The five worst Star Trek: Enterprise episodes EVER!
Enterprise is indisputably the least popular of the Star Trek TV series, but there's bad, and then there are these five continuity-confounding franchise-killers.
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 16, 2011, 8:12 AM PST | Latest comment by ydontugivemelotsofkiss
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Kurzweil: Your brain will connect directly to the cloud within 30 years
By the 2030s or 2040s, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil envisions micro-computers embedded non-invasively in the brain that will act as an interface to a "cloud" of storage and processing power.
Posted by Ken Hardin | November 27, 2012, 8:50 AM PST | Latest comment by Kostaghus
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Pic: The true story behind Pac-Man
Back before the days of cinematic cut scenes, tie-in novels and movie adaptations, video gamers had to presume much of the backstory for their beloved pixelated pastimes. Pac-Man, however, seemed...
Posted by Jay Garmon | May 22, 2008, 12:01 AM PDT
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Sci-fi rant: Why giant mecha robots are stupid
The next person who says "I can't wait until the Army develops real mecha" gets a boot to the head, because in real life, giant robots are actually really stupid. Here's why.
Posted by Jay Garmon | February 6, 2008, 8:42 AM PST | Latest comment by CharlieSpencer_Palmetto
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20+ gift ideas for Star Trek fans
Geekend contributor Wally Bahny selected Star Trek-themed items for men, women, and babies for this gift guide.
Posted by Wally Bahny | November 30, 2011, 7:59 AM PST
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The humorous side of IT
Some geek humor is only appreciated by IT pros. Alan Norton discusses clueless user stories, silly names, and more, as well as when humor and IT don't mix.
Posted by Alan Norton | July 8, 2011, 6:08 AM PDT | Latest comment by dskyner1111@...
