Get ready for the geek in chief. President-elect Barack Obama used to collect comic books, can't part with his BlackBerry and once flashed Leonard "Mr. Spock" Nimoy "Live Long and Prosper" sign. ...more

December 26, 2008

Tripti Patil took a trip to Nordstrom at the International Mall Tuesday and found some panties, bras, workout pants, workout tops, a waist shaper and other clothes she liked. A total of $1,271.99 worth of merchandise, police say. ...more

September 3, 2008

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum. ...more

July 27, 2008

Susan Bennett is a white Tampa lawyer and an early Hillary Clinton backer. She was among the 15,000-plus who attended last week's Barack Obama rally at the St. Pete Times Forum. ...more

May 28, 2008

Susan Bennett is a white Tampa lawyer and an early Hillary Clinton backer. She was among the 15,000-plus who attended last week's Barack Obama rally at the St. Pete Times Forum. "I supported Hillary, but I'm also a realist," said Bennett, 58. "When I saw him speak (at the Democratic Convention) in 2004, I remember turning to my husband and saying, 'This could be the next (2008) president.' We need to unite the party, and we need a new direction that starts with bringing troops home from Iraq and doing something about health care. It was an easy transition." Then there was Chris, a software engineer. He's a 36-year-old black man who didn't want to give his last name. That's because he was at the Obama rally – when he should have been at work. He called it an "extended lunch hour." He also called it an invaluable experience. ...more

May 23, 2008

Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds - that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times. ...more

May 17, 2008

JUMPS: PORK RINDS, Page Magazine calls them "genius snack food." ...more

January 30, 2008

It's a long way from New Port Richey to the Mojave Desert, but Gary Stein and a team from the University of Central Florida made it that far this month, as they put their unmanned Knight Rider car up against the best in the country. ...more

December 1, 2007

The kindergartners on the ground were beside themselves trying to spot the paratroopers plummeting downward from 9,000 feet above their school. ...more

November 21, 2007

Nine years ago, Adrienne Reed was a stay-at-home mom. Then, a friend invited her to take a yoga class. ...more

October 13, 2007