Christina Tynan-Wood

freelance writer, editor, and content strategist

Under Construction

Posted on 2016 by Christina Wood | 0 Comments

Welcome to my site. If you have been to my blog, GeekGirlFriends.com, this site might look familiar. That’s because I mirrored it. But I’m getting this site up and running, too. Stay tuned. I will tell tales from the trenches of modern magazine writing, share cool tech I see in my travels, offer advice on what to pitch me, or maybe…

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Groceries Without Going to the Store

Posted on 2016 by Christina Wood

I used to make lists. While making lists, I often fantasized – and sometimes tried to technically solve – a world where my lists could take action. My grocery list would communicate directly with the store and get the goods without so much effort at remembering, driving, and getting. I was frequently mocked – Nerd! Star Trek fan! Waster! —…

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Some Audio Books Worth Listening To

Posted on 2014 by Christina Wood

I love getting books as gifts. And I love to give them. I am blessed with children who enjoy this as much as I do. So Christmas, as always, included a pleasant exchange of literary discoveries. But what’s even better than books? Books and the time to read them! That’s what audio books are. And I didn’t get any of…

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Men, Explained. (Women too.)

Posted on 2014 by Christina Wood

Taschen (the publisher) sent me a great little book — Yang Liu. Man meets Woman— yesterday. With few words, and only simple, graphic images, it does a tidy job of explaining some of the differences — cultural and psychological — between the sexes. I won’t throw a lot of words at explaining a book that forgoes words almost entirely. (Missing the point, don’t…

You Can Learn Anything

Posted on 2014 by Christina Wood

I got a great email from Sal Khan this morning. I’m a big fan of the Khan Academy (of which he is the founder (that’s a link to how he got started; a story he tells well.) It has saved my kids in school — and made up for failures in their schools — Â more times than I count. I tap…

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Roofie drugs, Justin Bieber, and my search for a new car

Posted on 2014 by Christina Wood

I’ve had a bit of a wild, vehicular summer. First, I moved from North Carolina to California, driving all the way across country with my husband, two quarrelsome teenagers and one strange, OCD dog in a loaner Buick Enclave. And since I’ve been here, I’ve driven an assortment of new vehicles. So, after living for years in a town where…

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Don’t Get Ripped Off While Getting Ripped Off

Posted on 2014 by Christina Wood

Today should be called, National Tax Procrastinators Day. It should be a day off. There should be a huge barbecue party at midnight. We should acknowledge that denial is a healthy way to cope with having to do accounting â€“ instead of actual work for those of us who arenâ€™t accountants — under the threat of fiscal punishment from our…

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Am I a Dork in these Jabra Revo Wireless Headphones? I Don’t Care.

Posted on 2013 by Christina Wood

I once considered over-ear headphones dorky. I couldn’t understand people who wore them around the city as if they had just fled jobs as air-traffic controllers and forgotten to take them off. Then, despite my fashion-slave prejudices and because my son always looks so happy in his Beats by Dr. Dre, I tried a good pair. It was like dimming…

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Printing from a Smart Phone is Easy

Posted on 2013 by Christina Wood

Itâ€™s one of the rules of modern life that the printer will run out of ink only when the thing you are printing is urgent and you donâ€™t have time to get more ink. This just happened to me. As I was printing forms I needed to take to my daughterâ€™s doctorâ€™s appointment, my office printer coughed out its last…

Too many Tablets?

Posted on 2013 by Christina Wood

Maybe more people than I thought can relate to my gadget-reviewers existence, where there are always several tablets or smart phones in easy reach.

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