Lately, daveb has been ruminating on his geekiness. He’s quite violently defensive of it. He’s fucking proud to be an alien from another planet and as far as he’s concerned, the weirder he gets, the better.

His recent foray into Linux has sparked a number of ideas for future projects to further distance himself from society and it’s acceptable lifestyles. TO start things off, daveb needs a computer in every single room of his apartment of doom. He’s already running two, but why stop there. This plan includes the bathroom and daveb is currently trying to fathom how to realistically waterproof a keyboard, monitor and mouse for the shower of doom.

Next item on the geek list is a homemade degausser. For those of you not in the know, a degausser is basically just a really powerful electromagnet used to blast magnetic memory storage (hard drives, etc.) and permanently wipe it’s contents. It can be assembled for only a few dollars with items from Radio Shack and a hardware store. Hidden in or near the exit to his apartment of doom should protect the information on his drives from being compromised by theft or seizure. Somebody tries to remove the machine and ZAP, all the info is gone. not that daveb has anything particularly sensitive on his hard drives, unless you count game saves in which case you win an award for being a bigger loser than daveb. He just likes the idea of it. Degaussers are cool.

Third and last on his current list of geeky things to do (this last being the one item that honestly will likely never see fruition) is to assemble a pneumatic cannon. An air compressor, a big old metal tube to serve as cannon, tripod and plenty of ammo in the form of paint cans filled with cement. That way when they come for daveb, shit will get taken care of, evil dictator style. He’ll just point at the sound of the bullhorn and fire through the walls. Original geeky gangster style (O.G.G). Once again, not that daveb needs this in the literal sense, but he does crave it, for his own reasons. However, daveb’s not sure if that’s exactly legal in NYC (or if there’s even a law covering homemade cannons) and he’s not about to risk getting thrown in the slammer for building one, so whatever, whenever.