So, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably already know that this week the Walt Disney company purchased George Lucas. Okay, they didn’t buy George Lucas himself, but they bought the entirety of LucasFilm which includes the intellectual rights to Star Wars, Industrial Light and Magic, and Skywalker…
As many of you probably know (or maybe not), I am in a position at work where I get to interview potential candidates for my department. In the past 5 or so years, I’ve probably been a part of 30 or so interviews, and one thing that is shocking to me is…
No, Im not about to bust into my rendition of a Stain’d song… Life has been pretty busy these last few months. Let’s recap: I got married. I went to Vegas. I did a crapload of work on the house. …
I just got back from seeing the Avengers for the second time. For those of you living under a rock the last week and a half, the Avengers has broken literally every single box-office record thus far into its release cycle. It made over $207 million in its first weekend,…
Why do I love Heavy Metal? For one reason or another, this question has been rattling around inside my brain lately. Last week I went out to dinner with my good friend (and fellow-metal head) Josh and we talked about this for a while. I think that in life, some…
I want this car. Can someone please buy it for me? With a Pontiac 400 with a 4-speed Muncie transmission, black leather, T-tops, and a CB radio. There is a company professionally restoring them and selling them on ebay here: Ebay ad Whoever buys this car for me, will get the…
Microsoft publicly released the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on February 29th, which for my non-technical friends, is something that Microsoft did very successfully with Windows 7. A Consumer Preview allows the public a free glimpse of their upcoming new operating system, and the ability to offer feedback before its general…
March is here, and its been unseasonably warm for this early in the year. As I go outside I find myself getting more and more excited for baseball season. Ever since 2005, every season has been disappointing. The southsiders have only made the playoffs once since then, only to get…
Yes, you read that correctly. Now YOU can have your own custom @54.174.210.109 email address. You can be cool like me! Just tell me what you want your address to be, and I will set you up. With your fancy new email address, you will get a pretty nice webmail…
I made a couple of minor changes to the URLs of the site which access both the Subsonic Music Library and my Photo Galleries. These changes should make them easier to remember. Now, you can access my photos by going to any one of the following links: photo.mikeeckman.com, photos.mikeeckman.com, or…
Many people assume I hate Apple because I am technology minded person who does not own any Apple products. Let me be clear, I think Apple makes fine products, and I feel that Steve Jobs was a brilliant man with a vision who positively changed our lives. What I do…
A revolution has occurred. Whether you were aware of it or not, on Wednesday, January 18th, there was a 24 hour blackout of a number of big internet sites. Most significantly was Wikipedia who shut down their site for 24 hours to prove what the Internet could be like if…
