A very quick note to all SGA readers: You may now use a Coultometer to measure how “Nerd-famous you are by comparing your Twitter following to the Twitter following of Jonathan Coulton, the musician, Internet superstar, and high-ranking geek.”
I, dear readers, am a mere 0.0201 Coultons famous. My Coultonic state is sub-coultonic.
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I was at a bbq largely populated by geeks. Specifically, engineering geeks who travel a lot and are into industrial design. And so I was not at all surprised when at one point the conversation turned to SkyMall. One guy mentioned that he was highly distrustful of the curved out shower curtain rods he saw [...]
It is time for now to start celebrating another class of geek: Those who work behind-the-scenes. We all know them. We are them. They are the geeks among geeks, the ones who make it all run.
I start this effort with someone who caught my ear with his laugh: Jason Howell.
Jason is a podcast producer at [...]
Back in 1998, I co-founded a startup company, Switchouse, which collected lists of what people had and what they wanted, found matches between lists, then suggested trades and sales between members. We focused on small, easily list-able items which could be sent through the mail, e.g., books, DVDs, games. Trading was addictive and fun, where [...]
This post was inspired by a new pair of chopsticks that I just found today: Papyrusticks! They’re chopsticks made from recycled paper.
For years I carried my own pair of chopsticks. I stored them in a little case which I tossed into in my purse/bag/coat pocket. After a while, I had a couple of sets - [...]
