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GeekSugar Talks to Jamie and Adam From MythBusters
When I moved to San Francisco, I instantly became hooked on a popular show called MythBusters. Now in its seventh season, the show is filmed right here in the city (bigger stunts are filmed in the Bay Area) and is hosted by the original MythBusters themselves — Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage. By using scientific technique and incorporating carefully-planned stunts, props, special effects (which usually involves something being blown up) and other elements into the show, the entire team — which also includes Tory Belleci , Grant Imahara and Kari Byron — investigates myths or "urban legends" to see whether they are "busted," "plausible," or "confirmed."
Geek Tip: Freezing Your Hard Drive Is Mythbuster Approved!
After a bit of a panic with a seemingly dead hard drive recently, my brother-in-law suggested something I long thought was an urban legend — freezing my hard drive. Yes, he was suggesting I literally put my hard drive into the freezer, next to the frozen bananas and emergency vodka, in hopes that it would come back to life. I was just about to try this trick when my hard drive came back — no cryogenics necessary.
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The Week in Geek
October sure came in with a bang! I not only got to go and take Wii Fit Plus for a test drive, but I also went to the MythBusters set and interviewed Adam and Jamie! What other interesting things happened this week?
Daily Tech: Remember the Milk Adds Push Notifications
- Never miss an appointment or task thanks to Remember the Milk's iPhone app with push notifications. — Lifehacker
- MythBuster's Adam Savage gets reimbursed for the $11,000 bill AT&T sent him for web surfing in Canada. — TechCrunch
- Instead of standing in line, you can now just check Apple's site to see where there's iPhone 3GS availability.
Andrea Owens of Think Geek: Geeky Girl We Love
ThinkGeek has long been a go-to destination for geek shoppers online, so when I was introduced to one of their Merchandising Assistants and she immediately divulged she is a geeksugar fan, I realized we were a match made in heaven.
Andrea Owens, who describes herself as "laid back, high strung, random, a little bit crazy, fun, and a little bit of an organizing control freak," had always been a fan of Thinkgeek and had joked it would be so awesome to work there. After moving to Virginia, she checked the website to look at a gift for her husband noticed they were hiring.
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