The Power Geeks #27

DarthMolen — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:21:34 +0000

Holiday Gift Ideas

Tech

Scotte Vest Tech Jackets with many pockets and electronics gadget holders, etc… (JP)
- Many models with various pricing from $70 – $340
- Pretty slick, I could dig one of these…
- Don’t forget the 10 pocket cargo pants
Garmin GPS and heartrate watch (Cole)
- 4 1/2 stars on peer reviews and best out there for GPS tracking and performance analysis
- Looks a bit bulky still but its still smaller than the older 301 model
- $156 w/out bicycle and cadence tracker
Stainless steel Video Watch (Steven)
- 8 GB memory
- Full color 1.8″ video screen
- Built-in speaker / ear jack / high frame rate
- $99
- Dick Tracey ain’t got nothing on this watch! It’s in color!
Holiday gifts for the extremely geeky!! DIY’er in your life… these gifts are not at the mall! (JP)
- The erector set is really cool…. I loved these when I was a kid…
- I built a giant about 10′ tall crane once with all working parts at my grandma’s by the stairs when I was a kid with one!
- Gifts for all ages, gifts for under $20.00
- great selection

Non-Tech

Fuzzy 20 sided car dice (Steven)
- In green only unfortunately (no red )
- For your Pen and Paper D&D friend
Jewelry (Hand made chainmail jewelery)
Books (If you don’t like these, think of some geeky replacements…)
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Princess Bride (steven)
- World War Z , Level 26 (cole)
- Zombie Survival Guide (steven)
- Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters – another Jane Austin novel made… better… (jp)

Goofy

Nothing says loving like a marshmallow shooter (Steven)
- In camo no less. Better than a nerfball gun because YOU CAN EAT THE PROJECTILES IF STARVING!
- Not guaranteed to ward off Zombies in case of apocalypse, you need a real gun for that.
G2 Night vision goggles (Jp)
- For those that didn’t buy the MW2 Collectors edition
- Binos
- Only $60, rig to attach to head not included
Phantom Key Stroker (Steven)
- Attach to victims comp and random caps, garbage, mouse moves will happen….

Outlandish
- Lunar Land (JP)
  - I also have some ocean front property in AZ for sale…. uhhh… you interested?
  - Very much bogus claims about legal rights for lunar land… but why not get an expensive piece of paper…
ThinkGeek Annoy-a-Tron 2.0 (Steven)
- For the practical joker in your life…
Absolute Must have….. (JP)
- TaunTaun Sleeping Bag
- This is very cool, started out as one of Thinkgeek’s April Fools Day jokes… demand for orders was so high… they actually had them made
- Love the details… Zipper pull is a lightsaber so it looks like you’re slicing it’s belly open!!!

Deal of the Week

Miser Brother Christmas special DVD for 14 bucks (JP)

Tech,Gaming, and Geek News

LED and CFL Bulbs Better than Incandescent
- Yes, there is finally a credible study that proves this theory
- (steven)wait, hold the presses, didn’t we already pretty much know this?
- The study included the so-called high manufacturing costs
- Total lifetime (from manufacturing to disposal) incandescents use 5x more energy
- Total for manufacturing of the “high-tech” bulbs? 2%

Apple owns most and least efficient computers (Steven)
- according to sustit.net
- Macbook air and Mini were the best in class
- Desktops and ultra compact, not so good.
- IMac was 6th in efficiency
- Apple Mac Pro desktop is the third least-efficient desktop, costing £107.45 (about US$178.76) per year to power it.

Ban Hammer Wielded in MW2 Already (JP)
- 2,500 ppl got the ban hammer on the PC due to a surge in questionable activity
- No dedicated server = better monitoring? I still think there are plenty of ways that ppl will cheat
- no Cheaters!! I’m onboard

L4D2 Sells 2 million in 2 weeks at retail (Steven)
- Sweet, but those are no MW2 numbers… hehehee
- right, 7 million in 24 hours of MW2
- This number does not include the Steam sales so who really knows…

Intarweb Goldmine

You may think you have a crazy Ex in your past… and while it may be true… (JP)
- 29 yr old detroit woman sets man’s porch on fire for breaking up with him
33 yrs old Photographer has Facebook page… growing number of fans (Steven)
- you may be thinking… but Jeremy… how does this rate to be in the Goldmine… well, I’ll tell you… She’s a Viennese orangutan
- That’s right, she has a camera that dispenses raisins when she takes pictures… so she snaps away all day long…
Jesus Christ dumped from jury Duty for being disruptive (Cole)
- a 59 yr old woman who legally changed her name to Jesus Christ was kicked out of jury duty for asking questions instead of answering them.
- best line in this story… ‘Efforts to reach Christ for comment were unsuccessful.’

Contact Info

On Twitter: Steven is @DarthMolen and I am @JPuent and @FueltheFighter

email us: darthmolen@thepowergeeks.com and jpuent@thepowergeeks.com prcole@fuelthefighter.com

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