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 [...]
A year ago our software team became a pilot project for the Scrum software development process. Among the changes that came along with this was a giant board in our work area where we write down all of our tasks on Post-It notes and move them around as we complete them. Every two weeks, we [...]
In honor of Halloween (my favorite-because-it’s-so-ridiculous holiday), I’ve been saving a few links for completely geeky jack-o-lanterns. Cool Gaming Themed Pumpkin Carvings for a Geeky Halloween Aside from the usual assortment of Pacman pumpkins and game console logos, these two rather stood out for me: A sackboy from Little Big Planet! How adorable! (Explanation for [...]
I have to admit that I love cool computer cases. In the same way I loved Swatch’s old-school transparent watches back in the day, I really appreciate the plexiglass cases that I can see inside. So it’s not a big surprise that I encouraged Lucas to drop quite a bit on a pricey Antec Lanboy [...]
In my effort to post something (anything) more regularly, I’ve started keeping a collection of random links that have amused me. Since it’s Friday, and I worked late last night, I thought I’d post one today. I hope it makes your Friday more amusing too. You know all of those cute photos of animals that [...]
A while ago Lucas picked up a copy of this book. He loves computer books and reads them the same way I read poorly-written vampire romance novels critically-acclaimed literature. It’s bad enough that he brings programming books along on vacation, but “Professional Multicore Programming?” I don’t know if you can get much nerdier than a [...]
Despite a horrible case of writer’s block, I feel obligated to post something today. For months I’ve been trying to decide what I should post today, and as the sun sets (which here in the north means it’s quite late) the answer has yet to come to me. Why the pressure? Because today is the [...]
I saw this today on the Craftzine blog, and since I can’t remember which of my friends and family have a Kindle, I thought I would just repost it here and let them happen upon it themselves! What large, friendly letters! Yes, it’s a homemade Kindle case designed to look like the Hitchhiker’s Guide to [...]