Heed the Download Warnings Offered by Web Master Tucker Hottes   Ever feel like somebody’s watching you? Well, that’s because they are.   Be careful out there on the Internet, boys and girls, because Big Brother is now watching you more closely than ever. News has been making the rounds that the “Copyright Alert System,” conceived as far back...

WEB MASTER TUCKER HOTTES has war games on the brain   Preparing for War… February is almost out of our way, and we’re rapidly approaching spring. But before the warm weather starts to creep in, we’re stuck with the March doldrums. Sure, we’ll have Parade Day to keep us warm, but that won’t fill the rest of the time. In a few weeks, though, those...

Nerdin’ out with WEB MASTER TUCKER HOTTES   Comics will never go out of style to fans With the Clarks Summit Festival of Ice and Comic-Con this weekend, it’s time to dust off my bags and boards and talk about one of my latent nerdy hobbies. I’ve collected comics on and off for the better part of two decades, which has led to a moderately sized but...

WEB MASTER TUCKER HOTTES on rocking that plastic guitar   Remember Rock Band? I can barely move my wrists. My fingers feel gnarled and nearly useless, and making a fist sends a shooting pain down my forearm. Goddamn Rock Band. You see, I took a fairly long hiatus from playing plastic instruments, mostly because I had a pretty busy 2012, and when I could...

WEB MASTER TUCKER HOTTES talks about the evil vampire lurking at your house   Power Vamps We’re all about vampires this week, and I’m here to talk about one lurking silently in your house, leeching from you every second, and bleeding you dry even right now as you read this. This is a vampire that hides in almost every room of your home or apartment,...

WEB MASTER TUCKER HOTTES says everything on the internet is fake   Is it real? Is it fake? Do you care? There’s been a lot of fakery in the news lately, and the Internet is abuzz with fake girlfriends, fake performances, and the usual flow of fake viral videos and outrageous claims. Let’s take a quick look at those three categories and try to figure...

Step Away from the Keyboard Did TUCKER HOTTES make it to the mountain yet?   This winter is not terrible — yet I spent the weekend on removal duty up at my mom’s place in the wilds of northern New Jersey. I had to remove the elaborate lighting display I had spent so much time crafting what seems like a mere few weeks ago. Along with the...

WEB MASTER TUCKER HOTTES looks into HIS wonderfully nerdy crystal ball   Techie predictions for 2013 Last week, we said goodbye to 2012 and I took a look back at how my musings in January for the year in tech stacked up to reality. This week, it’s time to peer into the fog of the future and talk about what we can expect in the world of gadgets and tech...

WEB MASTER TUCKER HOTTES Looks Back at 2012 Tech News This year offered a few pleasant surprises It would seem the apocalypse is a sliding target, and fortunately the Myans’ lack of space on a stone tablet spared us this time around. I figure by New Year’s Day we’d run out of adjustments and corrections to that whole Dec. 22 nonsense. I’m sure it...

WEB MASTER TUCKER HOTTES on the magic of Christmas, and wifi   Sometimes a ‘from me, to me’ gift is in order As Santa squeezed down the chimney in houses across The 570, my house was filled with the magic of WiFi bouncing from wall to wall, through floors, and saturating the neighbors with sweet, sweet electromagnetic waves. As an early Christmas gift...