3,000 year old advice on honoring your mother, from The Instruction of Any, written in the Egyptian Eighteenth Dynasty: Double the food your mother gave you, Support her as she supported you; She had a heavy load in you, But she did not abandon you. When you were born after your months, She was yet yoked to …
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“What if Michael Bay did our developer recruiting video?!”
The action-packed, explosive-laden trailer faded from the screen, and the developer next to me joked “That’s what our developer recruiting video should look like!” It seemed like a great idea, so we brought it up with the filmmaking-types in the design department. “We need something awesome! Explosions! Police cars, ambulances!” I guess they didn’t have …
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I want a camera built into my car
I want a camera built into my car. I want it right in front of the rear-view mirror, capturing the same wide view I’m seeing through the windshield. I want it to record on a continuous loop. If I press the steering-wheel mounted trigger, I want it to store 10 seconds before and after that …
You had me at free parking
My company sponsored a scholarship at Western Washington University. (For not-at-all altruistic reasons: you apply for it by showing up at a meeting where we get to introduce our company and internship opportunities. We want first pick of the best students!) I got a thank you letter from the university, which didn’t surprise me. What …
We could have had an F-8
My grandfather worked for the Campbell Soup Company from 1946-1978. There were always lots of Campbell’s products around, and I drank a lot of V8. Alas, I never got to try F-8, V-8’s fruity friend, and one of the projects my grandfather worked on. “This deliciously distinctive fruit drink is a blend of: water, sugar, …
Player piano roll scanners
Long ago I bought a box of old player piano rolls with the idea of building some harness to digitize them. (I dreamed of returning to my youth, when I knew what to do with a soldering iron.) I had a lot of fun imagining different solutions to the problem, and did a bit of …
The Computing Cheese Cutter
Some time ago I visited Everybody’s Store, in tiny Van Zandt, Washington. Everybody’s is an exotic grocery store and temple to the hand-made sandwich, located outside Bellingham in a town so small it has no Wikipedia article (!). I ordered some Havarti Dill cheese, which is a bear to slice. But it was no problem …
I’m starting to see the problem…
Data center as underground lair
What could be cooler than an underground bunker in the city, complete with fog, waterfalls, and dramatic lighting? I want one! (via Slashdot)
The ultimate unboxing experience
Here at Logos we’ve been talking about packing recently, as we prepare to release the Mac version of our software. We’ve been shipping DVD’s in simple boxes, and sometimes even paper sleeves, but we understand that Mac users are accustomed to a little more elegant presentation. That’s why I’m glad I found this idea for …