Dr. Mobey's Lab

Friday, January 02, 2009 by Brett Mobey

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I've moved

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 by Brett Mobey

Go here for the new Dr. Mobey's Lab:
www.drmobey.com

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Check out this piece of gadgetry. the Wingscapes BirdCam. I may have to get one of these. They look like the camera traps they use on my least favorite cryptozoology show, MonsterQuest. This would really come in handy at the house, snapping pictures of the none birds that frequent my yard. Not a single one. I'm the only Naturalist in the neighborhood and I have almost no wildlife in my yard. But maybe the Wingscapes will capture an image of whatever the hell is under my deck that the dog simply must bark at. My guess? Sasquatch...it's a big deck.

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Thursday, January 24, 2008 by Brett Mobey

Gizmodo gets free stuff.
Key sentence in the above link: Apple sent us a Macbook Air
It wasn't: Apple sent us a Macbook air and a bill for the Macbook air plus shipping. They sent them one.
I don't get free stuff. OK, I get it, I'm not a huge gadgetry tech site, I am not visited as much as that site. ( I have literally tens of visitors bi monthly) But if Apple sent ME a Macbook air, I wouldn't call it shit, like I did without even seeing or holding it. If I want to review this thing I will have to literally go to an Apple Store and review it there. If the store isn't crowded, I may even be able to post a review there. But I'd much rather post the review on my very own Macbook Air, in my underwear. Which I'm fairly certain isn't allowed in the Apple Store. Maybe I'll have to stop using the F-bomb in my posts, put up some banner ads and make the site look like an Airstream trailer, but just maybe I can get someone to give me something free. Unlike this which is the only free thing that I have received this year:

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A Letter from Andy Rooney's Producer

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 by Brett Mobey

I'm a Producer for the CBS television program 60 minutes. I've been a television producer for over ten years, six of those years have been at CBS. I've been recently moved to the position supporting Andy Rooney, the long serving editorial contributor to 60 Minutes. He was also in World War Two. In addition he is old as hell, crazy and I'm pretty sure that my boss hates me and that's why I'm producing for this old prick.
Last week was a fun one. I was surfing the internet looking for some poular interest stories for Andy to comment on when I heard him wheezing down the hall. When he appeared at my door ten minutes later he blurted out
"I need everything you've got on shoelaces!"
I've got nothing on shoelaces. Andy then slumped into the Herman Miller chair in my office and rolled himself back to his office which was carved out of a live tree one hunddred years ago.
The week before that I had to get three hours of b-roll on Dunk Tanks. He never even wrote a story, he instead did ten minutes of improvised riffs on olives.
I plan to kill andy Rooney if he isn't suffocated by his own eyebrows soon. All I will have to do is shoot him in the face when he comes to my office asking me if I can get some footage of Bigfoot for a dream he's planning on having that night.

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Where's my toolbar?

Sunday, January 20, 2008 by Brett Mobey

If you are over 40 and own a PC, you have lost your windows toolbar (it's actually called a Taskbar). Perhaps you are looking for it right now. Look to the right. Yep, right over there
Is that where you put it when you accidentally put the keys to your Volvo on your mouse? Well have no fear, I have a fix.
Get windows XP. Yep, Windows Millennium isn't cutting it anymore hippie. It is true that you can lose the taskbar in Windows XP, you can lose it, not me, I don't even know how to lose it, but it is a pretty safe place for your taskbar. Don't do Vista, Vista doesn't even have a taskbar, it has a Barista who makes you a Latte and then erases your hard disk looking for your monthly budget for Recumbent Bicycle magazines. If you decide to get a Mac, you're on your own, that taskbar is translucent and can read your mind.

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