MyTechnobabble
Mark Schaffner
MyTechnobabble

I'm sure you've never gone even a mile over the speed limit in your car? Never driven even an inch without putting your seat belt on? Never crossed the street unless you were in a clearly marked crosswalk?

The link didn't work for me, either, through iTunes, but when I searched "VLC Player" on my iPhone it came up as 4th in the list.

I'm curious, with the standing desk mentality (since you obviously subscribe to it) does it work well in a home environment? I have the feeling that if I were to try to set my home desk up for standing while working there, since I don't actually work from home, but rather spend my time on the computer playing games

No, 12 am, in any standard clock-based system, especially for computers, 12 am takes place in the middle of the night, whereas 12 pm takes place in the middle of the day. It feels backwards since you are counting upward from 1 to 11 am, then 12 is suddenly "pm" but that's because technically, if you think about it,

Definitely bummed me out. I was going to go ahead and nab it just because, but since they don't have the color I need there's sadly not much point. :(

I had one of these at one point. Not my first, but it wasn't a bad phone.

That was my dad's first cell phone in his car as well. I remember it being so odd to me, and so amazing to most people who saw it.

Me, too, man. I remember when the first blue-lighted screen phones came out and I was SO ENVIOUS! Then I got one and realized it was the same as what I already had, but with a different colored light...

That's more along the lines of dye sublimation, the letters actually soak down into the plastic, like a tattoo would, but also like a tattoo you could (in theory, anyways) eventually get rid of it by taking off enough layers from the top. Doubleshots are more like... a nut and a bolt, let's say. The colored plastic

Well, keys are normally printed. Backlit keys are typically a translucent or transparent plastic, painted black or some other dark color except for where the key's labels are. The keys on Apple's Mac keyboards are white and the letters are painted on in gray, etc. The problem with this is that the printing can

Oh, definitely. Same works for the CherryMX style keys. They actually have keypullers available just for this process, to make it easier and so you don't pry the keys up from the side and risk damaging the center plastic. I popped mine all out with a credit card since a) I didn't have a keypuller yet and b) I was

I actually discovered this site more recently and am looking forward to their backlight line, since I recently bought a backlit mechanical keyboard and was worried about what to do when the keys inevitably wear down.

Oh, I'm not saying it's a bad keyboard, just that it's definitely not mechanical. ;) I actually liked the Dell keyboard that I've used, they're really not bad keyboards overall. I personally prefer my newer mechanical keyboard, but I do quite a bit of typing in general so that has a lot to do with it I'm sure.

If it's a slim keyboard it's not going to be mechanical. Anything mechanical has the taller keycaps to accomodate the switches. If it doesn't look pretty much JUST like the pictures in the story (you'll notice almost all mechanical keyboards look pretty similar) then it's definitely not mechanical. Another big

One thing you haven't mentioned in here (not that I saw anyways) is the durability of these keyboards as well. I'm not talking about typing, but rather spillage, dirt, etc. You can take one apart relatively easily, and if you happen to spill something onto the keyboard it can actually be cleaned and will likely

You mentioned the MaxKeyboard Nitehawk X9, but the X8 is the exact same keyboard except that it uses brown switches instead of red. I recently purchased it as my first mechanical keyboard and am very much enjoying the tactile feel of the browns. Is it louder? A bit, but it doesn't have a serious click-clack noise.

There are other forms of oil than cooking spray... You could use just about any of them to prevent the egg from sticking. I personally like sunflower, vegetable, or canola oil, depending on what I'm cooking. Cooking spray has issues with build-up at high heat, which tends to happen more often and readily in

THIS. I do this every time.

I'd avoid it even with stainless steel. I've still seen it build up over time unless you scrub them REAL good after every use. Like, with steel wool good.