I found this funny and quite true post over at Once Upon a Geek. I especially like these excerpts from ‘Job Description: Married Geek With Children’ ;
“Applicant is expected to give up most available geekery time. Applicant must be willing to sacrifice geek-related activities in exchange for: chasing after children; helping with the dishes; bathing children; tucking children in bed; and […]
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This is almost too good to be true! Windows computers play “Fur Elise” or “It’s a Small, Small World” at seemingly random intervals! Can you imagine how many people that this “feature” has driven mad? How would the average home computer user ever make the leap from “hmmm..my computer keeps playing Fur Elise..maybe this is […]
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Check out these amazing Flight Patterns from outerspace! Designer Aaron Koblin took data from FAA and made awesome animations with all of the flight patterns. Every time I see something like this it amazes me the things that smart people will find to do with raw data!
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Alright, on the weird side of stuff I find on the ‘net, this may not be the top, but it is still weird. First of all, who cam up with this idea? Second; who has this much time to ‘photoshop’ all of these faces? Some of them are kind of creepy!
Partial Face Transplants Pictures Gallery […]
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Holy cow Batman! This has to be the coolest thing I have seen in a long time! How awesome would it to be to have this hidden away in the forest as your own person retreat! It would of course be the ultimate ‘treehouse’ for some kids whose parents have way too much money!
Eryn
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I do a lot used to a lot of retouching my photographs that i take. These days I simply don’t have the time, so when I do I want to it ‘quick and dirty’ as they say. I snap a lot of pictures, so manually retouching each one would take too long. I have a […]
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Check out these amazing pencil carvings I stumbled across this morning while enjoying some non-work related surfing and the peace and quiet of 5:30 am.
A lot of patience and skill to be sure!
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Seeing how my wife is a teacher and we both know that public shools just do not get the funding that they need, I found this effort worthwhile and decided to participate in the Blog Catalog challenge.
DonorsChoose is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. If […]
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I’ve only made one call, and the results were ok, not great. I asked Google Local Voice Search for the location of Giant Eagle, and I was presented with 3 locations, 2 of which are not really close to me, but did fall within the search paramaters. This service along with my mobile Google Maps […]
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Check out this great “poster” that show where our tax dollars go. http://www.thebudgetgraph.com/poster/
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