Things of Interest to Lisa & John

Quantified Self: Forgetting

John — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 04:35:31 +0000

Very interesting view of how to compensate for our limited ability to remember.

Forgetting from Ken Snyder on Vimeo.

Mailchimp and the casting for the new Star Wars film

John — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:24:09 +0000

I was working in one of my favorite online apps today, Mailchimp, and they had Freddie in this header:

This opens to this Youtube that made me laugh…

Describing Projects

John — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:18:02 +0000

This has been around for a long time and it still makes me laugh.

Bear Hug

John — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:18:41 +0000

This is a lot of fun…

John — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 05:29:56 +0000

Great article at Gizmodo about Cheap Booz and Hangovers. I’ve always wanted to put a sticker on Wreckless Blenders wine that says, “Headache Free.” Of course, that infers that someone doesn’t drink several bottles.

Windows 8… Disco Mullet

John — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 02:17:49 +0000

Windows 8 is pretty cool. It has some great features and a nice shiny touch interface. The Surface has some good design elements (the camera, the kickstand, the keyboard options). It is clearly a product designed with focus.

The issue with Windows 8 isn’t going to be with the Microsoft devices. They’ve followed the hardware-software model of Apple, so can control all aspects of the design.

The problem is going to come with all of the OEMs designers sitting around with other techie-geeks going, “Wouldn’t it be cool if it did this?!?”

This will result in some of the most inanely designed laptops, hybrid tables, and desktops that seemed like a great idea at the time.

In 18 months or so, we’ll wake up from the touchscreen party with a hanger and wonder, “What were we thinking?!?”

I am predicting we’ll call this time frame, “Disco Mullet” of the PC world because it won’t be just as bad as one, it is worse than both.

I will be reviewing various devices over the coming months and will share my findings as much as I am allowed.

History of the Earth, Clock Style

John — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:22:14 +0000

Here’s the history of the earth in a 24-hour clock format.

We’re just over a minute old? Yikes. Although, it looks like Marvin Gaye has been around awhile longer… since 6pm. Sorry, that was healing, not reproduction. My bad.

I think the name of my next band will be Abundant Banded Iron-Formations. It will be a heavy metal band.

This explains quite a bit…

John — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:01:48 +0000

About the adolescent brain and the associated behavior.

Dropbox in Space

John — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 05:30:42 +0000

Great story… I am a fairly loyal Dropbox user. Okay, I have Skydrive, Box, iCloud, Google Drive/Docs, and a Synology Cloud drive… Reconsidering… I am a promiscuous Dropbox user.

The Dropbox Hack Week had some very cool projects and this was one of them.

The Voice of Fonts

John — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:51:37 +0000