Today is the retirement party for the lady who handles all of our communications and marketing here at work. She’s been here ever since this place opened and during her tenure has served as librarian, computer administrator (a title that later became known as “IT” toward the late 90’s) webmaster, web designer (another title that […]

I’ve been trying to figure out an easy way to build a charging box. I lack access to power tools so it has to be easy-ish.
Basically, I’m talking about a box which houses a smart power strip  in a bottom section with the power cord sticking out the back and all of my gadgets that […]

Everything has an AC adapter these days. They generally stick out like a sore thumb looking like a brick sticking out of your wall or perhaps sitting on the floor. One fact that I’m ashamed to admit had eluded me until recently is that these items continue to draw power even when the item they’re […]

The continued funding of the space program is based, in my opinion, on the traditional question of “so what do you want to be when you grow up?” When I was 5 years old I definitely answered “astronaut” to that question as did many of my classmates as do many children these days.
Back in the […]

PC World published a list of the 10 best tech products of all time. I found their list to be funny because it demonstrates a complete lack of consideration for anything that happened before 1977. It’s almost as if the author was born in 1985 and didn’t go to college. Maybe they should have left […]