Hello.  I am Technonick.  I make posts about stuff with food and computers and barbequeing and working and school.  But I want to know who actually reads what I write.  If you are interested,  please friend me.  Some of my posts are open to the public,  some are friends only.  So if you want to read the friends only stuff, friend me.

"TAMPA - About a year ago, a little brown bunny moved into a green bungalow on W Lambright Street in Old Seminole Heights, down by the Hillsborough River. She stayed inside at first, safe from growling dogs and taunting raccoons and the 8-foot gators the river deposits on its banks ( Read more... )

Egypt Egypt Egypt.... I'm really tired of hearing about Egypt. I understand what is going on, but do I have to hear about it every 5 minutes? Even on PBS ( Read more... )

I wanted to become an early adopter of Diasporia, the alternate secure private social networking tool. I wanted to be smug that I was using something that was better than Facebook. Something that kept my privacy private instead of whispering that it was secure but ultimately running away with my information, selling it the highest bidder or rolling ( Read more... )

Yes, Facebook is evil. Here are few reasons why:

Great video (and site) from 2006

May 2010 Business Insider article 10 Reasons to Delete your FB Profile

Wikipedia page of Criticism of Facebook

I think this link best describes the problem with Facebook ( Read more... )

EasyBloom Tells You What Plants Will Grow or Why Your Plants Are Dying-Indoors and Out [Stuff

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/cAS54LIne-Y/easybloom-tells-you-what-plants-will-grow-or-why-your-plants-are-dyingindoors-and-out


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I admire my wife because she has her causes that she is very passionate about. She cares about Postpartum Depression, the death penalty and tiny Eastern places where people are repressed (Burma/Tibet). And yeah I care about those things, because she talks about them, but those are not my causes. Those aren't things that I think about on a regular ( Read more... )

The election results have me down. Sure Jerry Brown won, but Prop 19 didn't pass. Fiorina didn't make it the Senate, but the GOP has control of the House. Meh ( Read more... )

While I want to rant wildly about the stupidity that is Linux Planet: Arch Linux Backup Server article. I won't. I won't tell you how dumb it is that it takes two separate pages to get to the point of network access. So let me try to help out ( Read more... )

I play Urban Terror. It is an "old school" FPS based on the Quake 3 engine. It's selling points are ( Read more... )