Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category
Non-Fiction: The Four-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss Ferriss left me thinking a lot about hacking in 2011. Not just one’s body, but everything. I didn’t put much of this into practice in 2011, but for 2012, I’ll be trying more of it. Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk Left me saying “fuck yeah!” and inspired me [...]
So the first of the WordPress themes is coming along nicely. I didn’t do a mock-up in Photoshop or anything like that, but I know roughly what I want it to look like. Using the Blueprint framework, Cufón for some of the typography (headers and the blockquote), the Google Fonts API (body copy), and there’ll [...]
So part of the reason I haven’t continued to commit heaps of electrons to my blathering on this blog is that I’m having an identity crisis about what it should be or become. I know that one big step in the development is going to be the visual layer. I’m working on that. Whole new [...]
I am hereby coining the term “the Yorke Conjecture” which postulates that no public discussion of music will go more than 5 minutes without someone bringing up Radiohead. (Not because Radiohead is awesome, mind you. No, it’s because Radiohead fans are worse than Apple fanboys when it comes to vocal smugness.)
I started playing Empires & Allies over on Facebook, but man. I’m thinking about quitting because of this: WHAT IRRESPONSIBLE DOUCHEWAGON LET PETER GRIFFIN PLAY WITH A SABOT ROUND?
Sure, it’s making the Intarweebs rounds already, but I wanted to memorialize it here. Because it’s so true.
Facts: global warming is a man-made situation. Situation: insurance companies are paying out the nose on claims where weather-related damage is concerned — more so in 2011 thus far, than in any other year. Solution: given that — at some point — the amount paid out in climate-shift related coverage will exceed the profits made [...]
I’ve had a few days to let it digest now, and I have some thoughts on Apple’s WWDC keynote address. I’ll cover the two main topics. First, iOS 5. This is some amazing stuff right here. And yeah, a bunch of it is cribbed from Android, but ultimately, it looks like Apple did a better [...]
Man, I love what Elon Musk is doing for spaceflight. If they were looking for an e-marketing manager over at SpaceX, I’d throw my hat in the ring faster than you could blink. Obviously, a relocation is something I’d have to discuss with the wife, but man. Could you imagine being involved with a company [...]
