Daily Cup of Geek

Downtown LA as seen from The Grove:

My iPod at the gate for my flight to NYC (delayed 1 hour):

Thanks to Shrink Pictures for, well, shrinking the pictures.

The Big Apple… And No, I Don’t Mean Makers of the iPod
I’m in NYC on business this week. It’s my third trip this year, and my third trip to NY ever. And what can I say about the city? I love it. It’s awesome. And it’s so very different from Los Angeles.
I have a five [...]

This morning I was served up this ad on my Facebook news feed page:

Really, Facebook? I mean, come on. That just makes you look like some cheap scammer site.
But I guess with the controversy over their new advertising program, Beacon (Facebook Users Light Beacon of Protest), you have bigger things to worry about…

Just got back from Thanksgiving at a friend’s house, and even though it’s midnight, only a few hours from now shoppers will be flooding stores for the post Thanksgiving sales. Ah, Black Friday. Even better… Black Friday with a 4am start for many stores. (Two words… Completely. Insane.)
Which brings up an interesting point. With everyone [...]

Gattaca is one of my favorite movies. The premise is simple, but chilling — in the future, your genes determine who you are and your status in society. Genetically inferior? Genetic discrimination is illegal, but no one can take the risk of hiring you for anything more than a janitor level position… So parents have [...]

Ah, technology. So much for that. Upgrades are never pretty, so let’s start over and call this 2.0 of the Daily Cup of Geek. I have larger complaints about upgrading Parallels and OSX, anyway. It could have been worse.
It’s been over six months since the last post (The Black Fox blog, sadly, is now dead), [...]