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Over a decade ago, soon after I moved into my current home, I attended a homeowner’s association meeting where the new neighborhood swimming pool was a hotly-debated topic. A small, but vocal, minority actually suggested that the pool should be filled with concrete. The argument [...]
Category Archives: general
NIMBY? – Support Your Local Greenway
October 9, 2009 – 8:53 am
Project : Recycled Bottle Tiki Torches
September 14, 2009 – 12:55 pm
This weekend, I built a couple of tiki torches based on this article that I discovered via LifeHacker. I made mine from a couple of Bombay Sapphire bottles. I had trouble finding some of the hardware mentioned in the article, but the folks at my friendly Ace Hardware helped me experiment and find an excellent [...]
Presentation Tips: More from Lawrence Lessig
May 18, 2009 – 1:31 pm
I posted back in March about Lawrence Lessig’s “Keynote Ballet.” Lessig gives beautiful presentations. He uses simple slides in a way that illustrates his points without boring his audience. I occasionally find myself counseling clients to skip bullet-heavy PowerPoint decks in favor of an approach similar to Lessig. Please take a moment to watch this [...]
Stuff You Should Know
May 9, 2009 – 7:06 pm
I’ve recently added a new podcast to my roster. Stuff You Should Know is brought to you by Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant from How Stuff Works. The boys give you the lowdown on such subjects as the evils of high fructose corn syrup and how face transplants work. Clever and geeky, funny and well-read, [...]
Root Canals – Some Practical Advice
April 30, 2009 – 11:01 am
I recently needed to have a root canal. My first reaction, of course, was fear. “Root canal” has become the poster-child for All Things Painful and Bad. Turns out, it wasn’t really that bad. It’s about as invasive as getting a filling – it just takes longer. The Novocaine shot is really the only part [...]
Etsy <3’s John Golden
February 2, 2009 – 9:24 am
My friend John Golden is talented and an all-around nice guy. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.
YouTube – Post-it portrait of Biff Henderson
January 28, 2009 – 5:13 pm
Back in March of ‘06, my friend Charles was on Letterman, showing off his Post-it skillz (yeah, that’s right skillz). Charles is the brains behind the operation, not the guy that keeps hogging the limelight.
Memo to myself…
January 28, 2009 – 1:37 pm
Memo to self: Avoid horrifying compound words if I’m ever brainstorming on a product name.
So You Spilled Water on your Laptop…
January 16, 2009 – 11:46 am
Yesterday, I was cleaning some junk off my desk and knocked over a just-filled 20oz cup of water directly into my ThinkPad T43. I’m posting this from that same laptop thanks to info I found online and got from a good friend that is familiar with ThinkPads and works for Lenovo.
Here are some tips to [...]
Customer Service
December 18, 2008 – 2:42 pm
In this current financial climate, with holiday sales as slujggish as they are, it stands to reason that giving good customer service is a sound way to increase the possibility of higher sales. In the last couple of weeks leading up to Christmas, I’ve run into one example of horrible customer service and two examples [...]