We’re back with another math fact of the week! Last week, we talked about the surprising fact that .9999… = 1 — thanks again to the excellent Polymathematics blog for that particular fact — and this week’s fact examines a similar property of the Real Numbers.
There is no smallest real number greater than zero.
Unfortunately, while [...]

On this sleek episode, we stretch the legs on our new mixer, battling poorly designed manuals and strange interfaces to bring you a better sound experience.  On the Tech Top 3, we discuss how the Telcos just can’t shake the image that they enjoy raping their customers, how Diebold (a major manufacturer of ATMs) is [...]

Every week, I’m going to attempt to bring you, my faithful audience, a new tech tip churned up from the bowels of my daily experiences.
So, tech tip #1 concerns Virtual Private Networking (VPN) and wireless LAN connections.  It was frustrating figuring out what a certain problem was, and the solution irritated me enough to want [...]

Brewery: Wychwood, Witney, Oxford, England
Brewery Description: “Fiddler’s Elbow is Wychwood’s golden and refreshing beer and evokes the lazy, hazy days of summer in golden meadows & ripe corn fields. This wheat-brewed refreshing summer ale is 4.5% ABV in bottle. The addition of the choicest English wheat malt perfectly complements the use of Styrian Goldings hops. [...]

Planets, that is.
Pluto Stripped of Its Title
I remember the debate started in 2003 with Xena (which, if I recall correctly was also named ‘Planet X’).  For quite some time, there were those who said our solar system now had ten planets.
Being resistant to change as I occasionally am (and unwilling to talk about ‘Planet X’ [...]

Colin has accused me of becoming an Apple evangelist.
Since deciding to purchase my MacBook, I have convinced four others to go out and buy the little white notebooks, and another is thinking about it.
In less than a month, I have helped Apple sell several MacBooks, iPods, and various other items.
I’m no evangelist.  I am a [...]

I recently had the opportunity to test out one of the most recent offerings from Codemasters, Micro Machines V4. Codemasters is the development company responsibly for such titles as Operation Flashpoint, Colin McRae Rally 5, and the upcoming Jericho.
So it was with some optimism that I installed Micro Machines on my computer. My [...]

Let’s face it, when you want to walk into a store and pick-up some gadget goodness, Best Buy makes it easy. They have stores everywhere, and their inventories are usually vast. As such, they will be where many Moms and Dads turn to grab back-to-school supplies for their kids. Whether it is [...]

Hi again, internets — it’s me, Jason. For some crazy reason, I decided I wanted to write a regular column for BostonGeek, and the the best idea for a column I had was a weekly math fact. I really, really like math. :^)

I know that a lot of people, even some pretty geeky folks, get anixious when it comes to math. Maybe this column will show those people how much fun math can be; at least, I hope it will.

So, without further ado, here’s the very first Math Fact of the Week.

“And yea, know that I am your king, my hordes. Come to me, and serve unto undeath.”
Actually, Greg Howley, a longtime fan of our podcast, has teamed up with us to produce an as-yet unnamed segment for our Gaming Table portion of the ‘cast.
He’s a cool guy, one of the first to win one of [...]

Looks like no more Stargate: SG1.  But Atlantis is back.
SG1 Ends Run; Atlantis Back
Honestly, I never saw the allure.  I thought the Stargate movie was fun, but the series… meh.
 

So I was reading Order of the Stick by Giant in the Playground and I saw that they were making an appearence at Pandemonium Games in Boston on Saturday the 22nd. Thought I would share the info with those who may not have heard.

The cult sensation of the summer: Geeks on a Podcast! Listen as Carl and Colin discuss the scale of Amazon’s digital movie store, the hiss-tory of hacking the MacBook, and Tivo tries to constrict Echostar. In gaming news, Eagle’s inventory slithers its way into Funagain, and free poker strikes at the Xbox Live marketplace. [...]

Brewery: Guinness Brewery (St. James Brewery), Dublin, Ireland
Brewery Description: “Strong tasting with a distinctive roasted bitterness, GUINNESS® Extra Stout is our authentic carbonated classic. It’ll transport you back to an 18th Century world of stouts when the ancestor of this beer was known as GUINNESS® East and West India porter.”
Brew Style: Irish [...]

On this late, late episode, Colin gives his sorry excuse for why we recorded two days late. On the Tech Top 3, we discuss Steve Jobs’ Health, Some Swedish Darknet (Hint: it isn’t a type of pastry), and Dell’s take on the self-destruct sequence. On the Gaming Table we discuss Dead Rising more thoroughly, as [...]

Brewery: Hop Back, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Brewery Description: “Terrific straw-coloured beer with a fresh, hoppy aroma and a well rounded, malty flavour with an intense bitterness which leads to an excellent long, dry finish. Winner of numerous, prestigious awards, most notably Best Strong Bitter at The Great British Beer Festival in 1992/93. Ingredients: Optic pale [...]

Brewery: Kulmbacher Brauerei (Schorghuber), Kulmbach, Germany
Brewery Description: “Monchshof Black Beers appeals to beer lovers who appreciate real beer culture. The traditional specialty wins over beer lovers through its characteristic fine malt aroma and the appealing dark colour. Dark roasted malt and the finest hops give Monchshof Black Beer its highly digestable, malt aromatic and refreshing [...]

Today… today was a good day. Or rather, it ended up as such. 
Work was fine, nothing really special. My boss paid for lunch, which was awesome. Got a bunch of work done. Overall, it was a slightly better-than-average workday.
I got into my car at 5PM and started the engine. Cranked up the AC. Reached back [...]

“Hi, I’m a Mac.”
“And I’m a PC.”
So begins Apple’s latest round of clever television advertisements. Surely you’ve seen them, and if not, you can easily find them, and the parodies of them, on sites like YouTube. So I won’t bore you with an explanation.
But if you watch the ads, and have listened to [...]

Ever wonder what it would take to destroy the earth? Sure, we’ve seen movie upon movie of natural disasters, terrorist bombings, alien invaders, and other means to inflict destruction on this planet and it’s inhabitants. But have you ever wondered what would need to happen to actually destroy Earth? And how long [...]