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Wacky, and sometimes useful, articles about life, the universe, and everything.
Adventurous Questions for Friends (That Are Literally About Adventuring)
You don't have to be in the woods to tap into your adventurous side. If you read these questions for friends out loud and try to guess who would answer what, you deepen the human connection. Feverishly friendly debates are a certainty. A long-lost relative I never met...
10 Fun Political Questions That Won’t Cause an Argument
With the holidays around the corner, politics are sure to be brought up. You can’t choose your family, but with these questions, you can at least choose what’s talked about. These ten questions with answers are sure to spark a debate, but in a good way. Read the...
Couples Game Questions That Will Turn Into Sex
These sexy couples game questions come with four answer choices for you and your sexual cohort to choose from and enjoy. Read the question and its answers out loud, guess what the other would answer, and vice versa. They might surprise you, and you them, but either...
Cheshire Cat Tricycle Redux
The Cheshire Cat bike is back to its former glory and bound for the playa this Burning Man 2014. We discovered on a Google image search of "Burning Man Costumes" that a burner snapped a pic of it on the playa in 2012: Thanks Curtis Mekemson! In this two part Augman...
9 Steps to Winning a Hackathon
Here's a sure-fire 9 step program to winning a hackathon. Or it's how we managed to squeeze out a surprising win at AngelHack Summer 2012. Perspective is everything. 1. Show up Showing up is the hardest thing to do. And don't just show up to be there, show up as your...
Motion Sensing LED Wall Fountain with Jackpot!
We saw a huge glass water wall fountain in a restaurant one night. Becca said we should get one for our apartment. Of course, I said why don't we build one! I had some left over wood from some other projects... so I settled on a design that would make good use of what...
God’s Bookcase
Dream Last year I went to a ten day silent meditation retreat called Vipassana. I've resisted writing about it until now because, well... much of my intention for the practice was to embrace the unknowable. It. Just. Was. Writing about it, saying what it was and...
Floating Porch Swing
Burns are a lot of things. They start with 10 principles. But when those principles are applied with particular time and space constraints by a self-selected group of humans, it’s difficult to say what burns ARE. One natural result of a couple principles (namely:...
The Life of Pipe
Pipe was going to change how people kept in touch. Instead of sloshing through the swamps of social networks, task lists, relationship managers, and emails to figure out who to contact and when, you’d simply open Pipe. And there’d be ONE person, THE person you want to...
Starting Towards Javascript Gurudom
So I want to become a front-end guru. I've been a .NET guy for the last 6 years or so. I used to be proud of that. Then I moved out to San Francisco. Telling people you're a .NET developer out here is like telling them you're a Flash, COBOL, or punch card developer....
Photo Gallery Mashup with Ember.js
This was my hello world example app for the Locker Project built with Ember.js. It was fun playing with Ember.js, getting to know states, templates, models, controllers and how those work in Ember. I felt overall that Ember wasn't that difficult to learn but, for...
Meditation and Bicycles
I hear people all the time say that they can’t meditate. If people saw meditation like riding a bike, I wonder how many would so easily submit that they couldn’t do it. Like riding a bike, meditation is really easy to learn. Sure you can always get better at riding a...