The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Crash kits

matt | December 23, 2009

So, about a year ago posted about crash kits. Being that it’s getting to the snowy time of year, I figured it was time that I review mine.
Now, I should probably mention that I don’t tend to go off main roads when going to work. State highways, populated, with traffic. So, it’s unlikely [...]

Gaming table badassery.

matt | December 18, 2009

So, we’re planning out the basement theater/den/rumpus room/cozy area, and we’ve got a lot of it figured out.

TV goes on this wall

That determines speaker and seating placement

We’d like to have the kegerator over there

Popcorn machine goes there.

That leaves this big empty space… what goes there?

Enter, GeekChic, and their Spartan gaming table. Bar height, perfect for [...]

Hard disks… of DOOM

matt | December 18, 2009

Well, I won’t be buying any Western Digital drives again anytime soon.
After many years of exclusively buying Seagate drives, I convinced myself that all current hard disk manufacturers are basically of the same quality. Therefore, I should be shopping on specs and price, not brand.
As such, I bought a 1TB Western Digital drive.
It didn’t last [...]