Super Mario Laser-etched Laptop
Chris Maguire (@revolvingdork) who was a co-founder of ETSY and now is working on a new start up called Waffl has etched his laptop with the level maps of the original Super Mario Brothers. Thanks to @Make. Would be a masterpiece if not for the “Eee” logo in the upper left hand corner. via REPLICATOR [...]
New York Public Library opens elegant room for Wi-Fi users | Technology | Los Angeles Times
New York Public Library opens elegant room for Wi-Fi users | Technology | Los Angeles Times. If I was in NYC, this would be my vagabond office
A Geek’s Guide to Colleges
Cool article from Popular Science about the best school to go to for various nerdy pursuits: search for aliens, study Antarctic ice, clone animals, build robots, and design video games (among others). “A Geek’s Guide to Colleges”
Stalling
There’s another word for perfectionist: staller. There’s a phrase that explains this concept: “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” There’s a reason why I’m starting this post with statements like these: I’ve been using perfectionism as an excuse to stall because of fear. I’ve known from the start that the cards are stacked [...]
Shift to Infrequent Updates
One of the original goals I had while developing GeekStack would be that I would make my actions public as I made progress. This worked when I was doing basic things like setting up the website, planning, researching, etc. I’ve transitioned to a different mode now that’s not as suitable to blogging. Over the last [...]
Design Issue: Judging the Relative Value of CompSci Figures
One of the big pieces of work ahead of me is obviously to make the cards: write the test, design the border, do the graphics for each card, etc. But once that’s all done, there’s another question: how many of each do I make? I don’t mean how many cards to print; I’ll obviously print [...]
Feed Fixed
I just realized that my FeedBurner feed settings were messed up so anyone who tried to subscribe probably got a feed error. I’ve fixed it now and successfully subscribed to it, so you can too. If you already subscribed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeekStack, you should (might?) be able to access posts now. If anyone can verify this, [...]
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