… in the great wide of North Branch, MI. If you (ha!) happen to be up there this weekend, come say hi. We won’t have internet (but we will have snax!)
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•March 10, 2009 • Enter your password to view comments.The joystick ring. Why is it not available?
•March 10, 2009 • 5 CommentsWhat the world needs is a tiny laptop-style erasertip joystick or mini analog joystick attached to a bluetooth chip and a small battery.
Something small enough that you could throw a little strap on it and wear it like an upside-down ring on your middle finger, using your thumb to direct and select.
Better yet, the same equipment set inside a metal ring, hopefully with some method to charge it. (microusb plug?) Even better if it could reliably get its power through kinetic energy – walking around or even typing at your normal keyboard throughout the day could charge it.
I do wish I had the know-how for that, because I think it’s entirely possible (maybe a larger formfactor than my photoshop-imaginings). Add that to a very small netbook or smartphone and throw in one of many awesome portable displays (cell projector or videophones), especially the transparent “augmented reality” style glasses, and you’ve got a frickin’ awesome prototype.
Are you listening, ThinkGeek? ’cause I’d buy the snot out of that.
A verdict straight from the land of no-sleep
•March 10, 2009 • 13 CommentsMonster’s Chai Tea? Delicious!
Do you use Verizon?
•March 9, 2009 • 7 Commentshttp://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/03/08/verizons-nasty-littl.html
“Verizon sent out a tiny-print leaflet to customers last week, informing them (under the vague title above) that they were going to share subscribers’ personal information unless we explicitly opt out. It does not provide instructions on how to do so without calling them, customers report that calling them is no help, and even when you log into your account, Verizon has made the online copies of this legalese document inaccessible to some of its own subscribers.”
Check out the above link for step-by-step instructions on how to Opt Out from the Verizon website.
Just noodling
•March 6, 2009 • 7 CommentsI’m definitely ready for the end of winter, this year.
The beautiful thing about spring and summer is that it is cheap – you can socialize without climate control (more or less); I’ve held a special place for them my entire life – some years, all I remember are the summers, when my cousins and I would spend a few short months swimming, shouting and setting fire to things at grandma’s house. (I find it kind of gratifying that they grew up just as goofy as I did.)
With many of our friends unemployed and all of us worrying about whether our next paycheck will come, it might be tempting to hole up until the world moves on. We must take it upon ourselves to watch over each other, pick each other up (without needing to be asked), and laugh away the darkness.
The summer, for me, was a time for using the buddy system, for getting into trouble together, for building impossible things, and for enjoying the momentary pleasures of living. I don’t see why that’s any different now; grab my hand, and (as long as we have snax) we’ll make it through together .
She doesn’t see the coming fall
She doesn’t feel no fear at all
Bring on autumn moon or driving rain
I only hope I see her face again
She doesn’t feel no fear at all
Bring on autumn moon or driving rain
I only hope I see her face again
Everything is gonna be alright when summer comes
The darkest stars will burn so bright when summer comes
We’ll open up our bodies to the warming of the sun
When summer comes
In the interest of steamifying my world
•February 27, 2009 • 7 CommentsDoes anyone have an old leather briefcase (that I could have forever to travel with my lappy)?
Any amount of wear is fine, as long as it is a solid case.
Thanks!
My google-fu is completely failing me
•February 27, 2009 • 4 CommentsWe need a database, see.
We’re now using two external hard drives with essentially duplicate folder names but different files. We’ve got complex videos that need to be tagged with multiple subjects, and we’re just not keeping track of them in the way I want – there’s no metadata!
If anyone knows of any preexisting solution (besides editshare, the expensive package we’ll be moving to some time next year), let me know!