All right. Tonight, we’re talking about bad grammar. Now, I know what you’re thinking. We don’t need no lessons on grammar. And you’re probably right. But Dwight’s not here, anymore, and I think it’s up to the rest of us to pick up his journalistic slack as well as whatever else he left around the […]
All right! Happy New Year, everyone! We’re back with a full year of geeky goings on here in Houston. I’ll try to cover the first few tonight. If “Going to a Geek Gathering” was your New Year’s Resoltion, you’re in luck, as this Friday is the New Year’s Edition of the Technology Bytes Geek Gathering. […]
All right. Before the Dub Dub Dub, we had the B B S. As in Bulletin Board System. As in, not yet the ‘Net as we now know it’. As in dialing directly, modem to modem. As in eeeeeee-EEEEEEEE-static. Which I’m probably butchering as badly as I’m going to butcher this last name: Wachenschwanz. As […]
Allright. Summer is here, and with it may come the urge to stay indoors, out of the Houston heat and humidity. Given the disproportionate number of hot days we have here in Texas, we also have the opportunity to get more done. Whereas someone in our California listening area may only write some prose or […]
All right. Since Jay Lee is *Jay* Leaving us after next week, we’re going to be on our own when it comes to keeping this show running. We’ve jokingly referred to ourselves as a number of other shows, often following the “I was driving through Houston” lead-in. I’m thinking that maybe we go in a […]
All right. After the sheer amount of stout I’ve quaffed the last two weeks, I feel it only appropriate to lead off with something Guinness related. Is everyone ready? I didn’t mean for this to be some sort of Irish Inquisition, but we’re doing trivia. What was Alec Guinness’ salary for playing the part of […]
Allright. Today is March 14th or 3/14, meaning that it’s national Pi day. So, rather than ask how many digits *do* people know, let’s ask how many digits people *did* know. The Bible lists the value as three. In 480, Chung-Chih calulated the value to six digits. In 1610, Ludolph Van Cuelen worked out an […]
All right. Happy Leap Day, everyone. We’re 60 days into the Gregorian calendar in a year that is evenly divisible by four, which means that everyone gets an extra day. The situation arises because we have 365 days in our calendar, yet it takes the Earth 365 days and six hours to make a complete […]
Allright. We’re coming up on the fourth Satuday of February, which means that its time to flip over the framed photo of Bill Gates you keep on your night stand before heading over to HAL-PC for the Houston Linux Users Group Bi-Monthly Meeting. The group gets together from two to four in the afternoon this […]
All right. We survived yet another pledge drive without losing a single member to fund raiser flu. Which means we’re back with a little BarretTime trivia. What actor or actress do all of these television shows have in common: Howdy Doody, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, 77 Sunset Strip, Route 66, The Outer Limits, The […]
