Life is a mashup of toys and gadgets, hobbies and recipes, kids and odd socks, all held together with love and duct tape.
A while back, I posted a prototype of my blog business card, and asked for comments and suggestions. You all came up with lots of great ideas, and I promised to post a picture of the finished product, so here it is! I decided to go with the vertical front design and horizontal back. Your [...]
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If you’re not familiar with the Mythbusters, they’re the talented team of people who combine science, robotics, engineering, ballistics gel, explosives, and many other ingredients, to test urban legends and popular myths. This program is one of my favorites. It’s great geek fare, and if you don’t get it, you should find it on DVD. [...]
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This is awesome! Twenty-year old Australian Kyle Downes built this retro-style Nintendo controller from scratch. He scanned his old controller, enlarged the image, printed it out on big paper, took measurements, made calculations, built it, wired it, and VOILA! It’s actually playable! He describes how he did it on his blog (ultra-awesome.blogspot.com), so you can [...]
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You might have seen my comments and complaints on Twitter a while back, when I was searching for a good ergonomic keyboard to use with my MacBook. I have fast fingers and tender wrists, and when I need to do lots of serious typing, I need a good keyboard. I love my MacBook, but the [...]
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Last weekend, there were two huge events occurring simultaneously downtown in Indianapolis. We went downtown on Saturday evening — no, not for either of the big events, but to return a tie to Nordstrom (exciting, eh) — and saw huge crowds of people. There were hundreds of little pods of fans moving along sidewalks, waiting [...]
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Today is the first day of The AdSpace Contest and I’m excited to announce that I am one of ten co-hosts. The idea is simple and easy: Get as many entries as you can (very easy to do) over the next 30 days. The more entries you get, the better chance you have of winning! [...]
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I love the eyes on my MacBook, so I decided to hot-glue some onto my plain, black laptop tote. And now it’s trying to sneak onto Twitter.
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WELCOME! I can't teach you how to monetize your blog, but I can offer you some mostly intelligent conversation, moderately geeky tech talk, very funny mom stories, with the occasional rant thrown in for sanity. I'm so glad you're here!