When she’s not busy  spelling her name out in pictures, she enjoys sitting down in front of the computer and scouring the world wide web for the latest innovative gadgets and tech news while a whole lot of Taylor Swift (her musical flavor of the month) plays in the background.

Hazel’s first brush with the internet was in a dingy internet cafe at the basement of a mall around a decade ago, where she patiently waited for web pages to load at a snail’s pace on the 28.8 Kbps connection. Sad to say none of them loaded on Netscape (yes, it was still quite popular then) after her paid hour was up.

Hazel has a Chemical Engineering degree under her belt which is a career (and course) that’s as serious as its name suggests. However, for all things fun and crazy, she turns to writing and other exploits to bring a bit more sparkle and pizazz into her life.

Let us end this post with a moment of silence while we remember Princess, Hazel’s virtual Old English Sheepdog that has recently passed away after several years of neglect while she was working for her said degree. May it rest in peace.

You might have noticed from the above picture that he has an unusual taste in fashion. He assures us that this isn’t his everyday attire (though it was suggested that this may be due to a lack of similar clothing). Rather, when he’s not trying to go for a Steampunk look or some other form of cosplaying at a convention, he’s pretty much a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy.

He currently writes for Apartment Therapy/Unplggd, and is pursuing a graduate degree in Mathematics in Taipei, Taiwan. He’s been a DJ, radio host, and journalist in the past. He likes photography, notebooks and abstract math. He enjoys reading and writing hard science-fiction.

He’s married to a redhead and has got a beautiful little French bulldog named Spike. He’s currently living in Taiwan, but planning to move back to the US in a year or two.

If you’ve got a second to spare, leave a comment below, and say howdy to Range.

Clearly he loves his high-tech gadgets as much as we do.

Recently Pedro has packed his bags and moved from his home city of NYC to a small town in Tennessee in hopes of finding a better life. So Pedro will be writing for us while he hunts for a “real”  job.

Student journalist. Avid video game player. Contributor extraordinaire. Aviator aficionado. Chris fancies himself an enigma wrapped in mystery, a creature of diversity who despises perpetuating nerdy stereotypes.

Currently, Chris is a student of journalism and English at Rutgers University. And while Chris’s experience may lie primarily with video games (he currently reports news at Kombo, writes a biweekly column at The Wiire, contributes to Geekadelphia, and runs his own gaming blog new game +) he is a multi-faceted geek. Not many people have the audacity to print out a photo of Chris Pine as James T. Kirk, take it to their hair stylist, and request that they make him pretty enough to command the Enterprise.

But Chris did.

Besides video games, Chris adores science fiction, robots, katanas, and almost anything set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

If you guys have a second to spare out of your busy lives, please drop a comment below and welcome Chris to our evil little empire.

Alisha comes to Technabob after a long history of blogging, and she will be working her poor fingers to the bone to bring you lots of weird and wacky geek content.

She currently writes for Wii Fanboy, DS Fanboy, and Tiny Cartridge, and she is also pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her most important job, however, is helping her husband chase after their ten month old son, Jack. He’s not a gamer (yet), but he does like to make zombie noises. Alisha is very proud.

In the four minutes of spare time she has in the middle of the night, Alisha also writes fiction, but never, ever poetry. The world is a better place without her poetry, which once killed a kitten at fifteen paces.

If you’ve got a second to spare, leave a comment below, and say howdy to Alisha.

Lambert is a Creative Writing major at the University of the Philippines, where he has been an undergraduate for as long as the current Philippine president has been president. Physically ugly but lyrically handsome, Lambert is willing to sell his future children if Dave Eggers, Dave Barry, David Sedaris and Dav… Conan O’ Brien would get together and make a book, a movie, a sandwich, anything, as long as they collaborate.

He’s glad to be part of technabob and hopes to make more things for you to read and comment on.

Also, Cash for laptops says that his iBook is worth $5. Which is why he thinks it’s amazing what $5 gets you these days, considering the brokers with their hands on their faces type of economy we face today.

She joins the Technabob ranks as a contributing author, and will be helping to bring you lots of offbeat and entertaining geek craft, design, and other fun stuff.

Karen is the founder and owner of MailboxTees, a t-shirt subscription service, and writes about tech, design, art, and shopping for the MailboxTees blog.

A former pastry chef, she also writes about food and cooking on off the (meat)hook. People are surprised to learn that this seemingly normal lass is actually a closeted sci-fi geek who has a full-size Galaga arcade game in her guest room, and who spends many a day and night trolling the deepest, darkest corners of the internet for obscure Stargate fan fiction.

Here are just a few of her initial Technabob posts, (with many more to come):

• Humanoid Robot Learns to Make an Omelet
• Legend of Zelda Shoes for all you Link Wannabees
• Control your TV with your Watch; Look Like a Dork

Anyone with a real live Galaga machine in their guest bedroom is cool in my book.

[Be sure to check out Karen's other websites: MailboxTees, MailboxTees blog, and off the (meat)hook.]

Up until now, I’ve written 99.9% of Technabob’s 2000+ stories myself. While I really want to be a total control freak, I’ve realized that my readers crave more content than I can handle all by my little old self. That said, I’m certain that at least one of you out there is up to the challenge of finding wondrous new geekery and weird science.

If you’re convinced that you know your stuff in video games, gadgets, electronics, hack & mods, or generally offbeat techie stuff, you could be the chosen one. You’ll need to be able to source (at least some of) your own stories, have a witty, irreverant or otherwise sharp-as-a-tack writing style, and it won’t hurt if you’ve got a little experience cropping and scaling images using Photoshop, Picnik or the like.

I’ll tell you in advance that blogging for Technabob won’t make you wealthy, but it’s a great opportunity to expose your writing talents to tons of people, and if you happen to write your own blog, it’s a nice way to get a bit of extra traffic.

Ready to throw your hat into the ring? Just e-mail an appropriate writing sample or two to tips@technabob.com, along with your contact information, and a brief explanation of why you think you’d be the ideal addition to the Technabob editorial crew.