Neal's Comments

Red Ferret : Eco Drain - recycle your hot shower water to save money and the planet

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:36:04 +0000

Stop with the "save the planet" theme. God made the planet. We can screw ourselves, but the planet is fine.

Jeff McCord's Blog - Defining Moxie in the Digital Age : Getting Woopra Installed on Your Mac

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:21:04 +0000

Thanks so much for working so hard to get this figured out. The demand is high, so we'll be pointing people your way on Brief 355.

Jeff McCord's Blog - Defining Moxie in the Digital Age : Using iGoogle Widgets for Your Blog

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:05:47 +0000

I'm trying to understand the implications of Twitter down the road. I could make a really long list of people I've meet through Twitter who have added so much to my life. It really is amazing.

Jeff McCord's Blog - Defining Moxie in the Digital Age : Smoky Mountain Memories Blew Me Away!!!

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:39:44 +0000

I like this kid a lot. He seems to have depth way beyond his age.

GeekBrief.TV : GBTV #0296 | GeekBrief.TV

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:05:31 +0000

Sorry Ryenstein, if you want a podcast that doesn't gush about Apple, you'll have to look elsewhere, especially during Macworld week.

This is the time we celebrate the computer we love. We want you to love it too. It's okay that you don't yet...you will. You'll be drawn to the Mac slowly and eventually your resistance will break down and when you switch, you'll understand why we gush.

Apple inspires creativity. Linux inspires investigation. Windows inspires problem solving. The Apple inspiration is the one we're happy to evangelize.

GeekBrief.TV : Shame on Gizmodo

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:14 +0000

But Mike, isn't that like saying a girl wearing a short skirt is asking to be raped? When it's easy to take advantage of a vulnerability in tech, it's still the person who takes advantage that's wrong.

iCali | iPhone tips, news and accessory reviews : Operation Keynote

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:41:08 +0000

Affiliation with CBS probably wouldn't cut it. Even David Pogue waits in line to get into the keynote. Dvorak certainly isn't the key because he's not an Apple priest.

GeekBrief.TV : Not Early Adopting HD-DVD

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:01:52 +0000

For us, content matters more than the sharper picture. Most of the movies and TV shows we want to own are not available on either Blu-ray or HD-DVD.

GeekBrief.TV : GBTV #0260 | GeekBrief.TV

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:09:11 +0000

Kevin, If I remember correctly, she asked two things at the end: Are we recording? and Do you want me to face the speakers up toward the camera. Or something like that.

GeekBrief.TV : GBTV #0256 | GeekBrief.TV

Fri, 9 Nov 2007 05:58:54 +0000

Mike, I'm not positive, but I think you might be suggesting we, or at least Cali, didn't grow up as a geek. I've known her since she was 12, so I could write a book.

Cali wasn't one of the "cool" kids. She was a honors student who hung out with a few kids in the drama department (although, she was too shy to do drama herself). She built her first Web site in HTML (no WYSIWYG) when she was 14.

In our youth group at church, she would sit down beside the most socially, ill-equipped kids and talk to them. She wasn't being nice. She was just being who she is. I think that's when I fell in love with her.

You would be right to speculate that she didn't get made fun of by the jocks like you and I did. And, you're right that she didn't grow up playing DND. Youth pastors said it was "evil" and we trusted their opinions at the time.

We're all about enlarging the borders of Geekdom so more people, not fewer, boldly proclaim, "I'm a geek and I'm proud!" (preferably in a Scottish accent). :)

On the other hand, we believe there is a distinction between geeks and nerds. A geek can operate in the world with almost complete stealth. You might never know a geek is a geek unless you go home with him or her. A nerd, however, wears his or her nerdiness on his or her respective sleeve (or t-shirt).

Geekiness is about passion. You can be a music geek, a computer geek, a food geek, a gaming geek, a film geek, a math geek, a literary geek, and the list goes on. A geek's passions run deep, but nerdiness is MORE pervasive. It starts at one's core a permeates every ounce of a Nerd's being.

Geeks tend to look at Nerds with a since of appreciation and awe because we sense in them a lovable authenticity that brings to mind Roberto Benigni's Oscar acceptance speech. His response to his win came from his core rather than a since of social dignity.

The other school of thought is that geeks and nerds are the same, but the word geek is positive and the word nerd is derogatory. Either way, the good news is we get to make life up as we go and we can define ourselves however we like. That's pretty cool.