Eugene Glover

Pointless Food Tech

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I just love technology! And one facet of technology that fascinates me is food technology. I love the great lengths that mankind is willing to go to to try to balance convenience vs taste/quality. Let’s face it, the microwave oven has transformed our world more than we can probably quantify. It’s a modern miracle of … Read more

Facebook is Evil

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Mostly because it’s sucking away from my blogging. You know how easy many pages make posting their articles to your facebook page by just putting a little button at the bottom of the article? It’s so easy, I forget to post the articles here instead. Did you know there are killer rabbits in Australia that … Read more

Pitch Report

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They say most people consider Labor Day to be the “End of Summer”, but in fact, it’s not till September 21. Typically, though, summer has begun to let off by now. Not so this year, which I think will be remembered not-so-fondly as the “summer without end” It’s still topping 100 degrees every day (101 … Read more

Dangers of the iPhone

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Recently, I got the new iPhone 3GS and, owning my old iPhone outright, I hated for it to go to waste. So, with a little jailbreaking we were able to replace my wife’s failing phone on the T-Mobile network with my old iPhone. Now, see what happens. We go out to eat and she sits … Read more

Grilled at School

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I’m not even sure how to preface this story, so I’ll just plow in. My wife’s school had a BBQ last night. These sorts of open social events are not me scene (preferring, as I do, to sitting behind the computer and commenting on these sort of things instead) but I feel that as a … Read more

Tied the cat in a bag and tossed him in the washer.

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Yesterday was interesting. We were forced into accelerating our purchase of a new washer and dryer, and we went ahead and got front-loading units. They’re more economical and gentler on the clothes; however, I’ve never actually observed one in action. I spent hours watching the various programmed patterns: Normal, Heavily Soiled, Delicates, Towels, etc. Each … Read more

Math can be hard…

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… when you’re working with those tricky decimal places! OK, I’m just posting this because sometimes, somebody needs to publicly shamed – otherwise people will just continue to wallow in stupidity. Mind you, I think the caller wasn’t doing the best of jobs trying to make his point, either.