February 2011
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“Prank call to WI Gov Scott Walker: http://is.gd/mg4K4R Thinks billionaire David...”
– via @jaydedman
“Woot! Our Alexa (@LadyLexy) made @FastCompany’s list of 25 Women-Run...”
– via @sorayadarabi
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Bloggers I Follow
Our UI intern Anthony asked me about what I read that is related to what we do here (innovation, tech, startups, etc). Here is the list I just emailed him.
http://www.brepettis.com/blog/ - Bre Pettis, created makerbot, innovator, designer, teacher
http://mhudack.com - Mike Hudack, web video, innovation, space, government, media
http://innonate.com/ - Nate Westheimer, investment, startups,...
Meteoric Rise
The old man that paces back and forth outside our office stopped me again today and asked if I had any nets. Evidently, according to “the government”, according to him, there exists a successful intergalactic race of beings that ride from system to system on the backs of meteors, which are in fact not naturally occurring space debris, but rather hyper-speed vehicles designed...
“We don’t do shout-outs, we do shout-ats.”
– via @valdez
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Bacteria?
No one has ever said to me up close, under their breath, passing me on a crowded street, “You don’t exist.”
But I’ve felt it sometimes.
There were suspicions. There have always been suspicions.
Sideways glances out the corner of a middle-aged woman’s eye as she pretends to talk on her phone. The little girl with the plastic tea cup in the restaurant who tries to...
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Five Things To Do To Be Awesome
1. Learn to code better. I want to be able to quickly build a working prototype for a web application. This will involve learning Rails.
2. Make more music. Take singing lessons. Play more guitar.
3. Become financially independent. Money doesn’t really exist, so I’d like to avoid thinking about it. To do that, you need a lot of it.
4. Apprentice at a distillery. I want to learn...
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What I Wore: Four Seasons, One Closet, Endless... →
Made this site over the weekend. Got to brush up on all the new CSS 3 and HTML 5 goodness.