The Geek Review

Saw this insane rig setup over on TUAW today. The pic is up on Flikr with all the rigs marked. They guy is using an application called Synergy to seamlessly move the mouse and keyboard from one computer to the next with out using a KVM. The set up uses Five Macs, Three Windows boxes, and a Linux box. All total he’s go 11,600 pixels in screen width.

Coming in August from Kotobukiya is everybody’s favorite Kendo girl Tama-chan from the anime, manga series Bamboo Blade. Tama-chan stands in at 17cm and 1/8 scale. She will retail for 5,775 yen. She is already up for pre-order at HLJ, Kidnemo, and J-list(though how J-list came up with their pricing is beyond me.)

I’ve watched maybe the first 3-4 episodes of Bamboo Blade, (I know I’m far behind) so far it’s kind of a mix of your typical sports anime and a harem comedy. Reminds me a bit of Eyeshield 21 with some of the charter designs. Tama-chan is an interesting charter a master swords-mistress but shy and not really interested in Kendo. Will be interesting to see how she changes.

More pics over at AmiAmi.

Well I am sure most of you have seen the ads that are up here on the site and wonder can you really make money off of such things. Well I am here to tell you, that yes you can. Ok, it’s only 21 bucks but its a start. Danny Choo has a good post on what he calls Blog Monetization. It’s a good read for someone trying to figure out how to make a bit of money off of what is basically a hobby. I have actually earned a bit more then the $21 from J-list, but other programs such as Google Adsense and Amazon Affiliates require you to earn a higher amount before they pay you off.

Now what to do with the cash. I’ve decide to use it a seed money for “The Geeks Trip To Japan Fund”™ It may take a while to earn the funds as I figure a two week trip with ample spending cash would set me back at least $5k or so. It’s all part of the Path to Glory.

Well it is time once again of the Monthly look at the Alexa numbers and Page Rank. Looking back at last months numbers the Page Rank has increased a little over 250,000 places. The number that is even more telling is the second highlighted number, average page views per user. This show how many pages each visitor looks at before leaving the site. The 3 month average is up 2.5 pages, a pretty big jump, and I have seen weekly average as high as 11 pages. I think this increase is do in part to other “posts of interest” that now show up at the end of every post, that was made possible by the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5. The current goal is to hopefully break the 100,000 mark by the end of the year.

Well the night time at Maker Faire 2008 not only brought fire but also Abney Park. If you’ve read my blog before your sure to know that I am a big Abney Park fan, and they are 50% to 70% of the reason I went to Maker Faire. Read the rest >>

At this years Maker Faire there was a strong Steampunk contingent. With Jake vonSlatt of the Steampunk Workshop, Abney Park, Libby Bulloff of Exoskeletoncabaret, Magpie Killjoy of Steampunk Magazine and others making an appearance. Read the rest >>

Well the second round of the Loli Battle (Vintage Edition) over at Lolitron is complete. There will be a day off then the third round will start. The big upset in the second round was Chi’s lost to Vanilla H from Galaxy Angel in the final minute of voting by a single vote. Round Three will go quickly so don’t forget to vote to see who will go to the final eight.