If you’re geeky like me, you already know how to geekily say “I Love You”, but what if you’re not and you want to say “I Love You” in a geeky way to your geeky loved one? Don’t worry. I’m here to help.
1. Send an e-card
Send your loved one an electronic greeting card via Blue Mountain or Hallmark.
2. Buy them something extra geeky
Show your smushy-face huney-buns you know what they like by getting them something from Think Geek. If they’re truly geeky, they’ll love it.
3. Say it in Klingon
I’m not a Trekkie, so don’t ask me, but I’m sure there’s a way to say “I Love You” in Klingon.
5. Do it with Code Grab the code for your geek’s favorite programming language here and just replace “hello world” in the code with “I love my geek” or any other message. Don’t worry. These are usually only 1-3 lines of code, so you should have no problem.
My wife is not an avid gamer, but she likes her House of the Dead III zombie shoot ‘em up. I’m not either, really, but I have an XBox all the same, and when I play, I’d prefer to play on my 52 inch TV rather than the 27 inch. After all, what’s the point of spending the money on a big screen if I’m not going to get the most out of it that I can? When we found out that House of the Dead III was available for XBox, we sought out to buy the game (used on Amazon) and a light gun to shoot with. If my baby wants to shoot some zombies, I’m gonna line ‘em up and hand her the gun. Sometimes, though, the gremlins sneak in and ruin it for us.
The first purchase (boring details)
First, I purchased a used light gun on Amazon, through a third party seller. It never showed up. I wish I had seen the Re Sell It’s horrible feedback rating before I purchased. After waiting almost a month and contacting the seller with no response, I let Amazon know that I wished they didn’t let people with that kind of selling reputation sell there. Or maybe have a red flag pop up before I buy. In any case, I filed my claim and moved on.
The second purchase (boring details)
After wasting my time with that one, my wife suggested that we get TWO light guns. This makes sense. Sometimes I don’t know where my head is. Advice noted, I ordered two new Game Elements light guns. This time, I was careful to choose a reputable seller, Classic Game Source Inc.. I don’t know if they respond to customer queries, but that’s because I didn’t have the need to make one. Shipping wasn’t lightning quick, but I had them in a week, which is quick enough.
Remove the Head. Destroy the Brain
Writing this, I’m reminded of Zombie Girl’s song, GO ZOMBIE, which I am now listening to as I write. In the lyrics, she sings, “Remove the head. Destroy the brain.” That, my friends, is much easier said than done when you’re in the middle of a pack of zombies and your aim is all over the place, despite calibrating the light guns. My best guess is that my TV is simply not responsive to the light gun as it should be. We moved the whole shabang into the other room and played on the 27 inch, where zombies did, indeed, fall to the incredible aim and natural zombie-killing instincts my wife was throwing around.
I know it’s not tech (and I have a tech post coming later), but I am fuming. Watch the video:
I know there’s kids out there (and some adults) who just need a good beating. I know there’s good police officers out there that deserve all the respect we can give them. So many of the good ones have fallen in Phoenix lately. But then you have guys like this tool. His name is Officer Rivieri and if I had my way, three things would happen:
1. He would be fired immediately.
2. He would be charged with assaulting a minor.
3. He would be barred from ever owning a firearm again.
Here’s a guy who’s going on and on about respect, yet he can’t hold his temper long enough to just talk to the kid. If any cop laid a hand on my nephew like this guy did to this kid (not in physical defense), I’d settle it out of court in my own way. Where did this officer get his training? Why are there so many cops out there who feel the need to abuse their authority?
JoeTech.com will be getting a shiny new server this week.
In the past month, traffic to JoeTech.com has more than doubled. In the first 10 days of this month, the Entrecard Slots and Free Ad Slots widgets have already been displayed on other sites over 120,000 times. That’s a lot for this old creaky server to handle, so it’s time to move up. We’ll have a server that’s nearly twice as fast with four times the memory. I’m sorry about all the down time lately, but we should be in much better shape by the end of the week.
After gathering up all 2,045 January $100 Contest entries, picking our random number, and digging through all the entries for the winner, I am happy to announce that we’re giving a hundred bucks to Mark at 45n5.com. As soon as Mark replies to the email I sent him, we’ll send $100 his way via PayPal.
January was our first shot at this and while we’re still fine-tuning, I think it went rather well. I can’t wait to give away another $100 in this month’s contest. This month was sponsored by the following awesome blogs:
After gathering up all 2,045 
