Resident Astrologer Ryven Cedrylle with your geek horoscope for May 2010.
Bringing Fashion Back to the Future, One Shoe At a Time
24 Aug By 2 Comments
I’ve mentioned before that no small part of my vision of The Future is based on Back to the Future II and its depictions of life in 2015. Of course, part of the fun of watching any older movie, set in the future, is everything they get wrong: Texaco stations, endless Jaws sequels, and of [...]
Vintage Tech: Useless Nostalgia or Respect for Dreams Past?
14 May By 5 Comments
For all my love of The Future, I am a bit of an old-fashioned girl. I’ve already mentioned my love of college radio, and looking around my home I’ve noticed several pieces of vintage technology. I’m not quite sure why I like older technology. Maybe it’s that it seems to have more personality to me [...]
Grown-Up J’s Favorite Geek Things
31 Mar By 2 Comments
As I’ve been making the transition between College Student and Fully-Functioning Adult, I’ve noticed myself geeking out over some unexpected things. Never, when I lived in a dorm, did I ever consider shower hardware a “geek product.” I find that to be a weightier sign of adulthood than any birthday or degree. These are the [...]
10 Things I Expect in The Future
25 Feb By 3 Comments
Lately, between using Netflix on my X-Box and my guy’s new iPhone, I’ve begun to feel like I’m really in The Future. Since we’re clearly making groundbreaking advancements every day, I think it behooves me to throw my own requests out there. Granted, most of my expectations aren’t grounded in any sense of reality, and [...]
The Death Star
22 Feb By 3 Comments
For those geeks with cats, I can say that this item is probably the best $300 I have spent in my entire life: I call it the Death Star. You can watch it in action at www.litter-robot.com. The cats climb inside, do their business, and after 7 minutes, the Death Star rotates, sifts through the [...]
