Life is a mashup of toys and gadgets, hobbies and recipes, kids and odd socks, all held together with love and duct tape.
Sorry for the unnecessarily titillating title, but look at this machine! The new model iMac is now available, and it’s a beauty! You have to admit, it’s easy on the eyes I love my current iMac (now “old”), and I don’t really need a new computer, but I want this one anyway. It has the [...]
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I heard about this local company on the evening news last week, and I thought I’d mention it. It’s called ChaCha®, and the Carmel, Indiana-based online search service is winning awards and fans while it’s still in beta. How does it work? Unlike the big G, which uses computers to perform searches, ChaCha uses real [...]
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Sorry, honey (my husband is an attorney). I’ve taken a couple of those “Would you survive a zombie invasion” quizzes, and it doesn’t look good for me. I’m not a runner, don’t have any guns, and would have my kids slowing down my escape. Yep, I’m pretty much zombie food. One of the brains over [...]
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I love gadgets, and I was excited to have the opportunity to use a Motorola MOTO Q™ music 9m recently. Never heard of the MOTO Q? Neither had I, but now that I’ve had it in my hands for a week, I don’t want to let it go! In a nutshell, the MOTO Q (I [...]
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About a week ago, I got an e-mail from Amazon’s notification system that the Wii Fit is available for pre-order. So I bought it! I can hardly wait to try it out. If you aren’t familiar with the Wi Fit, you can see a video demo at the official Nintendo site. The games and activities [...]
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Hello, friends. First, I must thank you for your patience and support while I dealt with my hosting problem this weekend. As you can see, the problem has been solved, at least for now. I strive to keep my site clean, safe, and fast-loading, and am continually making improvements toward those goals (like the new [...]
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WELCOME! I can't teach you how to monetize your blog, but I can offer you some mostly intelligent conversation, moderately geeky tech talk, very funny mom stories, with the occasional rant thrown in for sanity. I'm so glad you're here!
GeekMom’s Memory Lane: Smells of Springtime in the Heartland
by GeekMom on April 18, 2008
I live in the midwestern United States, in a suburban area. Although I wouldn’t consider this a rural community, you don’t have to drive far to be “out in the country.” I consider myself a country girl at heart. I grew up on a wooded lot in rural Wisconsin, and loved playing outside without worrying [...]
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