Internet Rule #34 states that pornography or sexually related material exists for any conceivable subject. (Source)
This is also known as the Greater Internet Fetish Theory, and was made hilarious by an XKCD comic.
In simplest terms, if you can think of it, the internet has it. Not sure I buy that, but it got me [...]

Transcript of an IM Conversation between my friend Dave and me. It’s funny. Really.
(2:23:19 PM) Carl Reyes: saw ‘Wanted’… good flick
(2:23:28 PM) Carl Reyes: very loosely based on the comic (which I have yet to read)
(2:25:14 PM) Dave @ GTalk: yeah, apparently the only thing that they brought over was the name
(2:25:27 PM) [...]

Colin just bought a Sony Playstation 3.
He purchased it, ostensibly, as a way to acquire a supposedly ‘future-proofed’ Blu-Ray player at a reasonable price. I say he’s full of it.
Of course, he had incentive. Thanks to a promotion from everyone’s most-loathed big-box retailer, his final cost ended up being $299 (plus tax and [...]

Apparently, ancient Romans understood geekiness.
Roman Glass Gaming Die
Dated circa 2nd century A.D. I love this part:
Lot Notes: Several polyhedra in various materials with similar symbols are known from the Roman period. Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used.
Several polyhedra? A d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, [...]

 

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One would think we’d be better at posting these regularly. Obviously the answer to the question “How many brains does it take to keep a podcast going?” is greater than “three.”
Well, two-and-a-half, really. My brain is mostly non-functioning due to the alternating scenes of cute furry animals dancing and hot women… dancing… in [...]

I’m a sucker for new tech, I freely admit. But I also have a hard time letting go of something I once paid cold cash for. A little over two years ago, I purchased a 20-gig 4th-gen iPod for my (then) fiancee’s birthday. It lasted about a year before the battery died [...]

You know how many cans of diet soda I drink on a daily basis?
And now they say I am more likely to die.
Awesome.
Remy, care to weigh in?

This September marks a milestone for the subcontinent of India.
They are finally getting XBOX Live!
You know, XBOX Live!… part of the whole XBOX thing they fucking support in their super A-1, awesomely trained Tier 1 Support Center.
Gah. Just… gah. I mean… no, I must be nuts. Of course you don’t need access [...]

I bought my 360 at launch. Well, within a week of launch. I hooked it up and never had a problem with it. It’s never overheated, it’s never given me the dreaded ‘red ring of death’, nothing. I’ve considered myself pretty fortunate.
So, of course, I was due for a problem. [...]

Whenever I’m forced to exercise my authority as an IT manager, whenever I am provoked to yell at some idiot user for doing some fool thing, I am also forced to explain to them just how stupid they are.
I’ve tried using clean analogies. “You wouldn’t drive without seatbelts, would you?” or “You make sure [...]

This week anyway. Some claim technical difficulties. Episode 82 was great, too. I mean, really great.
Unfortunately, The actual IT person in the room (me) was asleep at the helm. And it didn’t occur to me what a horrific idea it was that the only backup recorder in the room to Colin’s [...]

With a name like Rocketfish, this company has a lot to live up to, just from its own hype. So, having recently come into posession of one of their mice, I’m going to take it for a spin (or is that a twist?) and find out. Here’s the package:

Look for it on my personal blog.

Well folks, carlreyes.com is now registered and contains my personal piece of webspace. It’s my journal, soapbax, anecdotes, etc.
Anything about me that doesn’t appear here will appear there, as well as rants, raves, and non sequitur. The blog itself will always be Safe For Work (except for the occasional written profanity), but it [...]

Occasionally, in the course of my work, I run across interesting problems, conundrums, insanities, vagaries, and things undescribeable. Though assigning blame is often a simple matter of figuring out who touched something last, ascribing motives to their actions is not. This disconnect is more infuriating when the party responsible is not readily available [...]

So, just because I thought of so many one-liners while enjoying this, I decided to write up a short review.
I have had several opportunities to enjoy the salsa recipe Karl usually goes by. It’s spicy, savory, and full of my favorite herbs and spices, like cilantro. Colin hates cilantro, by the way, so [...]

I don’t know why this is so late. Really, I don’t. Blame Colin. Blame Kornfeld. Hell, I was sauced, so don’t blame me.
This week we discuss chimps leg up in the evolutionary race, deflector shields for real-real, and Jacklash. Another fantacular episode of Greg Howley’s GameGeek Challenge. On [...]

I’ve been privileged enough to review several of Insignia’s devices over the past year. Insignia is Best Buy’s in-house brand, and they are rapidly building a name for themselves as a source of relatively inexpensive, excellently-featured consumer electronics.
So, the opportunity to review their latest portable DAP excited me. I excite easily. And [...]

As a special treat for our loyal listeners, we bring to you our very first BostonGeek Supplemental Geek Filmfest Extreme Spectacular 2.1 Alpha. That’s right, we did it just for you.
We discuss 9 geek movies we feel everyone should see on this episode. No, I won’t list them here. I don’t want [...]

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007
Requiescat in pace.