Category Archives: Geek

Space is big

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While looking for a domain name for this blog way back in 2005 (geez – has it been that long???) one of the domain names I considered was spaceisbig.com but it was not available at the time. I just so happened to stumble on a quotes site, and was (re-)reading some Douglas Adams quotes and ran across the quote from him:

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

so I checked and what do you know, spaceisbig.com was available! So I bought it today! I pout the quote up on the site and was thinking about putting the NASA astronomy picture of the day widget but couldn’t find a good widget to do it. Maybe later. or not.

Favorite Song Lyrics

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I’ve had this sitting in draft for ages so I figured I’d just publish it as-is – feel free to add your favorite song lyrics too in the comments.

  • “Doin’ you is like doin’ time” – The Connells, “Doin’ You”
  • “If I was a booger, would you blow your nose?” – The Lemonheads, “Bein’ Around”
  • “Crime don’t pay unless you don’t get caught” – Paul Warner, “Mexico”
  • “I’m so indie that my shirt don’t fit” – MC Frontalot, “Indier Than Thou”
  • “3D fresh not 2D-frutti” – MC Lars, “Hurricane”
  • “both revered and passe, like Madonna” – MC Frontalot, “Braggadocio”
  • “I lost you, but I found country music” – Ballboy, “I lost you, but I found country music”
  • “The glove compartment is inaccurately named and everyone knows it.” – Death Cab For Cutie, “Title and Registration”
  • “I could hide out under there. I just made you say ‘underwear’.” – Barenaked Ladies, “Pinch me”
  • “My anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns, hun. – Sir Mix-A-Lot, “Baby Got Back”
  • “Cookin’ MCs like a pound of bacon” – Vanilla Ice, “Ice, Ice, Baby”
  • “I’m the man they love to hate, the J.R. Ewing of Seattle” – Sir Mix-A-Lot, “My Posse’s on Broadway”
  • “thought I was a donut, you tried to glaze me” – Eric B and Rakim, “Make Em Clap To This”

Feel free to add your favorite song lyrics in the comments.

Audiobook Review: The “Share” Series by Nathan Lowell

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It’s not often I find a book that totally engrosses me, makes me smile, makes me tear up… and is free. I found all this and more with the series of four audiobooks from Nathan Lowell. All four books are available for free download from Podiobooks. The four books are Quarter Share, Half Share, Full Share, and Double Share.

I just finished listening to the whole series and they are some of the best audiobooks/stories I have ever heard. I’ll try not to give away too much, but they are about an average young man who loses his mother and has to enlist in “the fleet”. Despite the story occurring on ships in space, it’s really not about space – it’s much more about the characters and their interactions on-board ship. It’s so NOT about space, even my wife is listening to them and enjoying them – and she hates sci-fi.

I’m not sure why the series sucked me in so easily and so completely, but it did. Nathan Lowell’s reading of the stories could not be any better. I encourage you to give the first one, Quarter Share, a go and see if you enjoy it as much as I did. If not, you’ve lost nothing since it’s free to download and try.

Now I just have to figure out how much money to donate to the author/podiobooks.com.

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Audiobook Review Roundup

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Since I have listened to and reviewed quite a few audiobooks, I thought I’d just put them all in one post for easy reference. All of the audiobooks below are highly recommended by me.

Swurl is dead

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Looks like Swurl has closed shop. It was down for the past few days citing “performance issues” and now it says they have closed.

Hello Swurlers,

We built Swurl as two guys doing something we love in our spare time.
Unfortunately, due to the pressures of our day jobs and other
distractions, we can no longer support or maintain the service at the
level that we think our users deserve.

Building Swurl has been a great experience for us. We want to thank
all of the folks that used Swurl as a way to document their lives
online and share with their friends and families. Thanks a bunch to
those users that gave us lots of valuable feedback and encouragement.

Thanks,

Ryan & Jonathan

Such a shame. Would be nice to know what technology they use and where the problem was.

Anyone know of a site I can use as a replacement?