A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.
It’s unlikely that this project is a nerd’s day job because his opinion regarding his job is, “Been there, done that”. We’ll explore the consequences of this seemingly short attention span in a bit, but for now this project is the other big thing your nerd is building and I’ve no idea what is, but you should.
At some point, you, the nerd’s companion, were the project. You were showered with the fire hose of attention because you were the bright and shiny new development in your nerd’s life. There is also a chance that you’re lucky and you are currently your nerd’s project. Congrats. Don’t get too comfortable because he’ll move on, and, when that happens, you’ll be wondering what happened to all the attention. This handbook might help.
Attention: significant others of nerds. This is for you. (Sorry, Shannon.)
The Fast, Fabulous, Allegedly Fraudulent Life of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom
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With insider trading charges pending over LetsBuyIt, Schmitz decided it was time to lay low (by his standards); “in fear for his life,” he fled to Thailand in January of 2002. On his website, he hinted at possible suicide, saying he would be crossing “to a new world,” Hale-Bopp cult style. But instead of offing himself, he declared that he wanted to be known as “King Kimble the First, Ruler of the Kimpire” — a label he would apply to his future projects. (It’s listed as his title on LinkedIn.)
This guy is basically Richie Rich, if he didn't start with his family's money, built his fortune around multiple unethical business strategies and was hard into psychedelics.
I haven’t been drunk in 3 years… and I’ve been partying way more than you.
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I challenge you to fully realize how awesome life is. To: Party hard. Go on adventures. Make good love. Be bold. Scare yourself. Laugh it up. Be awesome. You already are, and when you can party without alcohol, the rest of your life will become a party too.
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If you want to develop apps, take your time and make something awesome. Make it fast. Make it beautiful. Make something you’re proud of. Don’t make 60 crappy apps: Make one really good one.
As someone who's about to start an iOS development business, this is exactly the model I intend on adopting. If you make something you want to use (and especially something you're proud of), other people will want to use it too.
If I’m adding a movie to my Netflix queue, I’ve already decided not to buy the DVD. I’m adding it because it looks mildly interesting and I’d like to watch it sometime. If I can’t add it to Netflix, I’ll just forget about it and probably never see it.
I think that's probably the biggest reason I stopped buying physical copies of movies. Even though there have been some decent flicks that have come out in the past few years, I find myself going back and watching those movies again less and less. If I'm watching any media, it's streaming TV on Netflix.
I owe my livelihood to technology and I love the raw capability it offers us as a tool, but I fear it a bit more than most people do. It's a tool, but it's not quite a hammer, because a hammer doesn't seduce you into sitting around lonely in your underwear for 6 hours at a stretch clicking on youtube videos and refreshing Twitter. I fear technology because I fear that bad feeling I get after a three day XBox binge I go through every year around the holidays.
Very astute observations by Brian Lam on the dangers of tech (and, more importantly, the importance of taking back your time).
In January of 1977, a life as a world-class runner was probably the last thing she or her parents could envision.
Instead, she became one of the first residents of her small town of Dawson (population 1,600) to ride in an air ambulance, a pulmonary aneurysm necessitating an airlift to the University of Minnesota hospital in the Twin Cities. "They never thought I’d be an athlete," she says now, laughing with the perspective of 30 years of proving that assessment about as wrong as it could be.
When I tell people I film C Tolle Run, the immediate follow-up question is: "Who is Carrie Tollefson?" This article is for those people. I've been working with Carrie for more than a year now and I have to admit that I'm pretty embarrassed that I didn't read this article about her sooner. She really is a phenomenal athlete and, in a culture where everybody seems to overcome adversity, she really has triumphed over a lot in her career. I'm very proud to tell people I work on her show.
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Not necessarily new, but still, considering I've never actually selected these by myself means I really do surrender a lot of personal information to Google.
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Another one of my personal favorite C Tolle Run episodes. I think I might need to invest in a gym membership and hit the pool while I try to figure out my whole knee situation. In terms of producing this video, I must say that the GoPro is a really nice, inexpensive way to get those shots you wouldn't dare try to capture with your main camera. The quality of the shots you get from that camera are insane.