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We love the internet! YouTube, social media, and more.
We love the internet! YouTube, social media, and more.
Because I was able to successfully complete my May Geek Goal, I thought I would step it up a notch for June. Crazy, I know.
Continue Reading “Geek Goal for June: Vlogging”
This week in geek brought us a couple of geek themed videos. Just in case you missed them, or simply wanted to watch them again, I’ve added them to this post for your enjoyment. Oh, and a few other things happened this week too.
Continue Reading “This Week in Geek: Geeky Viral Videos”
For some reason I decided that I need to carry out a random, geek related, goal each month. I wanted to start off with something I thought might be fun, and easy. As long as my attention span is up to it.
Continue Reading “31 Geeky Things Around the House”
As I was creating a StumbleUpon account for ‘Awkward Geeks’ use I saw this, which is basically a standard question on most sites, and one I never give much thought to:
Since there were only those two options (some sites have a ‘rather not say’ option), and because I happen to be female, that’s what I clicked. I hesitated when I read the words, “This helps us find the best content for you”. I briefly wondered if I should chose ‘Male’ instead, even though I wanted to believe that they would not have a system that makes suggestions about what my interests are based on knowing nothing more than my gender. Because that would be silly.
Continue Reading “StumbleUpon and Gender Stereotyping”
One of the things we find rude on twitter are the people who follow just to get get more followers. You know, the ones who stop following once you follow them back. We like to keep an eye on that stuff (there’s plenty of sites out there to help with that, like FriendOrFollow). These people…
We hope everyone is having a great Holiday season! We’ll be spending some time downtown, checking out the lights, playing some ingress, and hoping the huge, scary nutcrackers they have around downtown come to life and try to kill people. Because, you know, The Doctor will come and save us all!
Continue Reading “Season’s Greetings!”
