At long last, we have correctly completed our Japanese Brocade Level 1 Menger Sponge! It ended up being a bit larger than the first two and took us a little over one month to complete.
Now that we have finished our prototypes, the time has come to begin the final product, the Level [...]
The travel industry has had a long love affair with the iPhone and its gadgetry goodness, and Lucas and I have found dozens of incredibly helpful ways to use it when we travel. There have been myriad travel-focused iPhone apps, so I’ve been eagerly awaiting the ways in which the iPad will revolutionize our travel [...]
I’ve been playing with my new iPad in the US for two weeks now, and I find that I’m really enjoying it. I’ve been drawn to tablet PCs for a while, and I’ve been on the fence about getting a netbook and an e-reader, so when it was announced, the iPad made sense to me. [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update on our scrum team’s origami project, and we’ve come quite a long way!
First, our pile of cranes was getting unruly, so I finally brought in some thread and started stringing them up. They’re hanging in groups of 40, so there are still some odd cranes lying [...]
Lucas and Morten sent me this photo from their office today, and I thought it was too funny not to share:
(If you’re not a software engineer, that’s a pun on “pair programming,” an agile development technique involving two programmers working together at one machine.)
This Etsy shop is so filled with geeky awesomeness that I decided I couldn’t just share it with a friend or two and needed instead to dedicate an entire post.
The Pink Toque
The shop is mainly focused on creative handmade soap designs, but there are a few other fun products tossed into the mix. A [...]
This is a cute time-lapse video of what it might look like if baking cookies was like using PhotoShop. I’m neither a great baker nor a great PhotoShop artist, but I think my baking might turn out better if I had an Undo button! On the other hand, I’m glad I don’t have to pay [...]
In case you haven’t heard, Mattel unveiled Barbie’s latest career choices at the American International Toy Fair, a few weeks ago. They put it to a vote on the internet, so not surprisingly the popular choice (swayed by the computer-addicted masses) was “computer engineer.” The company also created a “news anchor” doll, which was the [...]
I really want to keep up my two posts per week resolution, but I don’t have any time this week. We got back from Paris on Monday (I was hoping to post about that), and today we have to leave early to go on a very Norwegian weekend cabin trip, so I’m just trying to [...]
At the moment we have only folded 451 Scrum Post-It paper cranes, but our pile is getting a bit unruly. I really need to go through and string them, but I haven’t found the time. However, in true Scrum fashion, the crane-folding task has been parked for the foreseeable future.
Last week, our product owner came [...]