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QR Codes: great, but then what?
I keep a long and ever-growing outline of blog topics I may someday write about. Most aren’t fully formed, but each at least once struck me as interesting at some point or another, so I figured they’re...
View ArticleIT work for no fun and no profit
Hey non-heartless geeks, how do you avoid becoming some random person’s computer guy1? I was just blindsided by my friend’s aunt and before I knew it, I was showing her how to use her laptop’s...
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goatse mobile
I had a strange moment of serendipity earlier this evening. I was reading some RSS feeds and I saw there was a new post to the Flickr tag “firstgoatse.” (If the term goatse is new to you, I’m not sure...
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Google+, the best Multiply.com clone ever
First, a word of disclosure: I worked for Multiply for nearly four years. This means I know what I’m talking about. I also no longer have any financial interest in their success. This means I’m...
View ArticleSteve Jobs on unintended uses of tools
A choice quote from an all-around interesting interview: The point is that tools are always going to be used for certain things we don’t find personally pleasing. And it’s ultimately the wisdom of...
View ArticleOn wishing for boredom
This is not a post about Steve Jobs. I read enough of them in the days and weeks after his death. I read in these a lot of what I already knew and learned some new stuff for sure, but one Steve quote...
View ArticleToolbogged
Oh, hey guys — I just invented a new word. toolbogged /ˈtulˌbɒgged/ (v. intr; past participle of toolbog) To become so consumed by the process of researching and selecting gear (often software) for a...
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Yes, that’s a new laptop. Yes, I know what year it is.
I know it’s 2013 and as far as “mobile computing” goes, I’m supposed to be pinch-zooming and app-buying and poorly-typing on a tablet like the cool kids. And I do — my O.G. Nexus 7 (the 2012 model)...
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Winamp — “feel the love”
I probably haven’t used Winamp in a decade, but learning that it’s finally going away for good brought it back to the top of my mind this week. Winamp wasn’t just my primary...
View ArticleDerechos, am I right(s)?
Spanish is a language I’ve studied on and off throughout my life, but never hard enough, it seems. Seeing a pamphlet recently, titled Declaración de los derechos, made me feel that way. The actual...
View ArticleMOOCing for fun (and profit?)
Last year I read an interesting blog post that taught me the name for something I’d been hearing more and more about for a while: MOOCs (“Massive Open Online Courses”). You know, they’re those online...
View ArticleHer was silly. (Not a typo.)
Spike Jonze’s Her was an interesting movie tainted with just a sprinkling of ridiculousness… and I’m not talking about the high-waisted pants. I’m about to spoil it hard, so avert your eyes if you...
View ArticleU and I have a problem
Hi AutoCorrect! How’s it going today? Got a sec? Can you do me a favor? If you ever catch me typing the letter “u” on its own it was definitely a typo, 100%, and could you just go ahead and make it a...
View ArticleI want you back in my life, colawars.83p
Do you know how things you treasure from your past probably wouldn’t hold up if you tried to enjoy them again years later? That doesn’t apply here, buddy. Because there aren’t more important things to...
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I’ve got you back in my life now… wait, drinkwar.92p?
As you no doubt remember, back in 2020 I was looking for this graphing calculator game where you play the role of a shady soft drink dealer. Yes, a weird twist on the venerable Drug Wars. Well, it...
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