Toby Overstreet
Technogeek. Blogger since 2004. I write about tech, AI, home decor, movies, TV, and whatever the internet throws at me. Deaf, proud of it. I also write for Organization of Unique Learners (OULDHH), creating educational content on neurodivergence.
Recent Geekouts
That is great news. Fable 5 comes back tomorrow and I am ready — well, sort of. I’ll be out of town most of the day, but I will absolutely get to it eventually.
Jaws started it all back in 1975 and Hollywood has been chasing that high ever since. Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the film, and I think that has something to do with why shark thrillers keep showing up lately. It's like the whole genre got a second wind.
What an evening.
My dad was having internet connection problems at his house lately. I run Starlink here in the tiny house, with child nodes over at his place — so when things go sideways, it's on us to figure it out.
The Starlink setup had been in the kitchen, wired from the window out to the dish. We decided to move the whole thing to the bathroom to get a better signal path toward his house. Dad drilled a hole through the wall so the Starlink cable could come in clean. We got everything set up, powered it on — and it just kept dropping. Over and over.
📚 Currently reading: The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton — 19% through (p. 55 of 290).I was curious what foppish means. Here it goes…
“Kirke was an ill-informed and rather floppish man who possessed, as if by accident, a superbly logical brain.”
TIL a new word: foppish
: foolish, silly
: characteristic of a fop
a foppish dressing gown
: behaving or dressing in the manner of a fop
I've been tinkering with the blog again. Honestly, I can't help it.
The biggest change is the header. As you scroll down, it collapses into a floating pill — clean, minimal, just "Toby Geeks Out!" sitting at the top of the screen. The inspiration came from glass.photo, which has one of the slickest pill header treatments I've seen. I loved it so much I had to bring that energy here. It's also very much iOS-inspired — that Liquid Glass feel Apple has been leaning into lately felt right for what I was going for.
I'm way behind on email. Thousands of them. I just skim until something catches my eye — and most of it doesn't. But one showed up recently that made me stop: Blu-ray turned 20 this year.
And my first thought wasn't "happy birthday." It was: when did I last actually use mine?
I had to think about it. A while. A long while. At some point streaming just became the default — pull up the app, find something, watch it — and the player quietly stopped being part of the routine. I didn't think I'd ever need discs again. Streaming had everything, and I'm not someone who rewatches movies over and over. Why keep a shelf full of plastic?
Indeed, it is true.
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