Author: Robert Glen Fogarty
Tech for the Clumsy and Accident Prone
I’m so clumsy. “How clumsy are you?” I can almost hear the heckler planted in the studio audience answering me back. I’m so clumsy that I once broke a toe walking around this poorly lit apartment of mine in search of… my own shoes (I tripped over them). I’m so clumsy that I once knocked [...]
How Music Critics Adapt to the Social Media Landscape
Remember when music critics were a little bit like respected, but much-feared royalty? They wielded the power of life and death over the musicians they both loved and hated, and they were courted almost as lavishly by record labels as the spotlighted stage denizens, themselves. On a critic’s whim, praise or damnation doled out in [...]
Chris Pirillo’s Home Office Tour – 2012
Every year, Chris Pirillo takes us on a tour of his humble homestead, complete with the hidden geek bunker from whence he broadcasts new episodes of TLDR [The LockerGnome Daily Report, aka Too Long; Didn't Read] every weekday. If you’re curious about the gadgets, gizmos, toys, action figures, myriad LEGO assemblies, Darth Vader collections, Muppets, [...]
11/22/63: The Stephen King Novel for Science Fiction Fans
At the risk of coming off like some kind of snob, I never thought I’d go out of my way to read a Stephen King novel. But these things happen. I’ve been plodding along with James Joyce’s Ulysses for a few months now (talk about baby steps; I may be done by Bloomsday [June 16] [...]
Subservient Chris Shakes His Moneymaker for the New Year
Have you ever done anything embarrassing for money? Trading in time for working at a job you hate probably doesn’t count (we’ve all done that); I’m talking about something a little more… freelance. I knew this kid in seventh grade, for instance, who would eat disgusting concoctions (like ketchup and cricket milkshakes) if the price [...]
What’s So Ultra About the Ultrabook?
We’re pretty well on into the 21st century, and while we don’t live in domed cities on Mars or have personal jetpacks to propel us to work every day (yet!), we do have portable, personal computers galore. Like our favorite pair of shoes, it’s hard for many of us to imagine leaving home without some [...]
I Wish You a Merry Christmas
Since Thanksgiving, howling Arctic blasts had pummeled the cabin’s sturdy door all night, every night, as if to seek entrance. Was this simply a reminder from the great, white north that something was coming — something big — and that the time for preparation was at hand? The dawn of a new day would soon [...]
Deck the Hauls: Showing Off or Vicarious Window Shopping?
Now, as they say, ’tis the season, with holiday sales in full swing and frantic consumers, coats discolored with the salt and soot and smog from navigating endless shopping center parking garages, decking the halls of the world’s malls in pursuit of snatching up that very special something or other just in time to wrap [...]
How to Remove Vocals From a Song Using Audacity
Why would you ever want to remove vocals from a song? Well, let’s say you’re having a karaoke party and you absolutely need a version of Funky Cold Medina with a little more bass and a greatly toned-down Tone Loc. Or maybe you’d really love the music behind Sisqo’s Thong Song if it weren’t for [...]
Microsoft Metro on Xbox and PCs: Good or Bad?
Sometimes, companies like to make changes just for the sake of change without offering any real improvements. Sometimes, there are real improvements, but it takes a while for the masses (unwashed and nicely groomed, alike) to see these improvements because they get hung up on the aesthetics of the changes. Indignant outbursts like “What was [...]
