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What kind of geek are you?

Geek, born and raised

Why do you consider yourself a geek?

My dad built a microprocessor programer in a hollowed out Snap-On tool box when I was a kid. Scarred me for life. I eventually ended up falling in with a crowd of geeks in high school. I even hung a hard drive platter off my bookbag one year.

How did you find out about our Geek community?

Cousin Greg

What are your "geeky equipment" specs?

HP Pavillion dv6700 1.9Ghz dual-core w/2gigs

T-Mobile Dash upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.1 "Kavana"

Bluetooth GPS

Canon Digital Rebel

Canon 28-135mm IS USM (my fav lens)

Wacom Graphire 3 tablet

Adobe Photoshop CS3

A hand-built PC, connected to 27" HDTV to serve up media and download all my torrents.

A bag full of dongles and cables and lots of little gadgets.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I'm 27, it's kinda late for that. Actually I kinda like what I am.

What makes you laugh?

Everything. I laugh at everything. Myself included.

What is the thing in life you treasure most?

My wife and my son, Bean. I love my gadgets alot, but I'd toss 'em all under a bus to take care of wife and child.

What do you do to entertain yourself?

Learn something new. I like to keep up on the latest mobile technology. I imagine myself a hot-shot web designer/blogger. I am neither.

Favorite music, movies, books, shows, artists, games, people, events, hobbies, etc.?

Music: Lot's of electronic stuff. Crystal Method, Squarepusher, Hybrid, Aphex Twin, Art of Noise, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim. You get the picture.

Movies: Sneakers, Blade Runner, Dark City

Books: The Dark Tower series, anything William Gibson, Still Life with Crows, House of Leaves

Shows: LOST, Fringe, Food Detectives, trying to get into Heroes.

What's your Web site / blog address?

http://www.twitter.com/thomashfoster

follow thomashfoster at http://twitter.com

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It's friday, and I was geeky today.

Wow, lots of geeky stuff today.

Let's start with this: I finally got around to running a Speakeasy speed test on my Comcast service today. Results below.

16.8Mb/s! No wonder the connection at work seems slow.

A tip for all my fellow Zune owners out there. A couple months ago I reformatted the hard drive on the computer I use for watching movies and music on the living room tv. After reinstalling Windows I decided… Continue

Posted on October 17, 2008 at 9:18pm —

My Own IMDB

My wife and I love to shop for deals on used DVDs. We hit Gamestop recently and snagged 12 movies for 30 bucks. They were having a "buy 2, get 4" deal going on. Apparently some of their stores will no longer be selling/trading used DVDs.

The only downside is we're never sure when we're going to stumble in a really good DVD sale. And when we do, we always have to try and remember whether we own a particular movie or not. There have been quite a few times that we've returned home only to discover… Continue

Posted on October 12, 2008 at 5:01pm — 2 Comments

Tiny URLs will kill the future of the internet

I recently started using TinyURL after creating my Twitter account. I was looking for an old driver today which made me start thinking about links and people using these shortened URLs. I know that TinyURL's site states that the links are permanent. But, what happens if TinyURL goes under, or takes their servers offline? Do we end up with hundreds of broken links? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Posted on October 11, 2008 at 10:05pm — 3 Comments

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At 6:08pm on December 7, 2008, Matt Harris said…: Hey just meeting some people

At 3:29pm on October 13, 2008, Zune80 said…: I see you found the twitter gadget...glad I could help.

At 2:12pm on October 13, 2008, Gone :] Miss Mehh said…: better* my bad heehee srry

At 2:11pm on October 13, 2008, Gone :] Miss Mehh said…: A NEW ONE!? Sheesh dude..how can it get batter? haha :D

At 8:44pm on October 12, 2008, Zune80 said…: Hi Thomas, thanks for the add request, and welcome to Geeks! You can find the twitter widget here:
http://twitter.com/badges/which_badge
you can choose from a few different types and customize it. Also here is a link to nearly everything twitter:
http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps

Yes, I love my Zune, and thanks for the compliment regarding my choice of screen name. I agree, Microsoft is really taking care of all their Zune customers with the software and firmware updates!