Author Archives: Cianna

Being a person of, shall we say, “diverse” interests, I am obsessed with obsessives. I joyfully fill my world with: films, dancing, words, tech, trees, food, caffeine, and asking people about their stories.

Film: Microcosmos

I finally watched “Microcosmos” the other night in its entirety and was transfixed. You all may have seen it in the 12 years since it first blew people away at Cannes, but I thought I’d mention it in case some of you don’t know about this film. Even if you have seen it, it’s [...]

Geekness & Entrepreneurship

I just returned from the Inc500/5000 conference, a celebration of the fastest growing companies in America. There’s a definite mindset overlap with the TC50 crowd, but it wasn’t clear at first. Most obviously, both are conferences of entrepreneurs. And the startup ventures at TC50 would love to have the insane growth rates which gets companies [...]

DEFCON 16 Report

Last weekend I stepped into a swirling vortex of geek. I went to my first DEFCON (Cyan’s 12th), which happened to be across the street from the Star Trek Convention.
I had no idea, really, what to expect at DEFCON 16. It is one of the largest conventions of hackers in the world, self-described as “underground.” [...]

Translator a.k.a. Internet Meme Timeline

Quick post: Dipity has created a fantastic timeline of Internet Memes. I include it here because, much likeĀ  Urban Dictionary, it can be a useful tool for understanding geekspeak.

Also, it’s dang fun to take a trip down the memory lane tube of the internets!
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Nerdcore for Life

You know those movies that you hear about long before they’re actually released, those movies that you start talking up to your friends even before you’ve seen them, those movies that you rally a group to see without reading a single review? Well Nerdcore For Life was one of those movies for me. And let [...]

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