Blog &Tech Eugene Fischer | 05 Jan 2011
That last picture I posted was a little graphic. I wouldn’t want anyone to get the idea that my new computer is strictly an opportunistic predator. I assure you, it can be socialized. Here we see it enjoying a glass of gewürztraminer and the composition of some new fiction. You see? That one little evisceration [...]
Tech Eugene Fischer | 24 Dec 2010
I woke up to discover a brutal scene in my dining room. Only two days after I acquired my 11″ MacBook Air, it has eliminated all possible threats to its power by savaging the only other ultraportable laptop in the apartment. The smaller, plastic-bodied Asus Eee 1000HE — already weakened by a year of battering [...]
Tech &Video Eugene Fischer | 02 Oct 2010
It’s only a matter of time before we have something like this.
Blog &Tech Eugene Fischer | 25 Jul 2010
Driving down the highway yesterday I passed a man riding a sufficiently unusual device that I pulled my car off the road and walked back along the shoulder to investigate. The man turned out to be John MacTaggart, the CEO of Pterosail Trike Systems, and he is in the process of riding one of his company’s [...]
Tech Eugene Fischer | 18 Sep 2009
The tiny computer in the trio was a Dell Mini 9, which I got for free from a friend who also got it for free. (He was the head of IT for a local construction company, and for a while was a high volume Dell customer. They were apparently handing out base system (4gig SSD, [...]
Tech Eugene Fischer | 17 Sep 2009
In that picture of two computers ganging up on another, smaller computer, the one in the middle is a Samsung N310, marketed in the US as the Samsung Go. It’s an Intel Atom based netbook with 1 gig of RAM, a 160 gig hard drive, and some very nice industrial design. A long time Apple [...]
Blog &Tech Eugene Fischer | 15 Sep 2009
I will probably write more about it in the future. But for now, a picture of what it looks like in progress. From left to right: DVD writer, Dell mini 9, Samsung N310, 13″ MacBook. This is going to be fun.
Health &Tech Eugene Fischer | 19 Mar 2009
Check out the “signs and symptoms ” section of the Wikipedia article on Cushing’s syndrome. I am experiencing most of these; not because I actually have Cushing’s, but because I have Crohn’s disease, which is currently being treated with prednisone, which ups my cortisol levels–functionally giving me an artificial case of Cushing’s. One of the [...]
Tech Eugene Fischer | 08 Mar 2009
What would happen if a forum of techies decided to crowdsource the ultimate handheld gaming/computing system, running open source software and powerful enough to play nearly any game anyone cares about in emulation? Then you would get the Pandora handheld. The specs: ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux 430-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core PowerVR SGX OpenGL [...]
