TED Talk: Dan Pink and The Puzzle of Motivation (Drive)
Posted October 16th, 2012 @ 06:57pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Posted October 16th, 2012 @ 06:57pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Posted October 15th, 2012 @ 09:34pm by Erik J. Barzeski
From CNN.
Posted October 14th, 2012 @ 05:19pm by Erik J. Barzeski
The GoPro3 was announced recently.
I might like to get one. They're tiny and shoot great video. The Black Edition looks sweet and includes the WiFi remote.
And get this: the specs say it can shoot 240 FPS video in 848 x 480? That's a much higher resolution than the 448 x 336 resolution we get out of our Casio cameras.
Hmmmm…
Posted October 13th, 2012 @ 04:02pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Found somewhere on the Internet:
Pinterest is porn for women. They (male scientists) finally figured out how to get women to use the Internet for something other than shopping, and it is Pinterest. It's shopping without buying. Pretty brilliant.
Posted October 12th, 2012 @ 10:27am by Erik J. Barzeski
Disc Golf from joe canali on Vimeo.
2012 GHdgO with David Feldberg, Cale Leiviska, Cameron Colglazier, Will Schusterick, Jeremy Koling, and Paige Pierce.
The problem with disc golf is that there are stereotypes that, like most stereotypes, are grounded in reality.
Posted October 11th, 2012 @ 08:07pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Posted October 10th, 2012 @ 06:57pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Posted October 9th, 2012 @ 12:19pm by Erik J. Barzeski
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Dear Kindle Customer,
We have good news. You are entitled to a credit for some of your past e-book purchases as a result of legal settlements between several major e-book publishers and the Attorneys General of most U.S. states and territories, including yours. You do not need to do anything to receive this credit. We will contact you when the credit is applied to your Amazon.com account if the Court approves the settlements in February 2013.
Posted October 8th, 2012 @ 08:20pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Woohoo! I have extended storage space through September 30, 2013!
Not that I use any of the space on iCloud. I download my mail and I don't store documents or files on iCloud. iTunes Match doesn't really count (it has its own limits IIRC) and I'm not close to meeting them. I don't even back up my iPhone to iCloud - I like having the backup on my computer, synced via iTunes ((Though I'm open to hearing arguments why this is stupid, of course.))
With the cost of storage dropping it wouldn't surprise me if before September 30, 2013 all iCloud users are simply given the "increased storage space" option.
Posted October 7th, 2012 @ 10:18am by Erik J. Barzeski
I love this stuff from a physics, aerodynamics, and simple science perspective.
Here's a reasonable approximation of the discs I currently carry in their "base" or "average" shape:
Posted October 6th, 2012 @ 10:02am by Erik J. Barzeski
That's just a disc he cut up and made for himself, but he could probably sell them for $29 if he wanted to. You know, and make $7.64 at a time. 🙂
Posted October 5th, 2012 @ 11:38am by Erik J. Barzeski
Quite literally days before I was going to buy a set of BuckyBalls from Amazon, there was some kerfuffle and they were taken off the market.
You can still buy them at GetBuckyBalls.com and I may do just that.
Posted October 4th, 2012 @ 11:47am by Erik J. Barzeski
Here's an awesome article on the design of airline luggage tags - their evolution, the challenges faced, and the ways in which they've been overcome.
My one tip? Don't fly through Detroit. It would not surprise me if 25% of lost luggage was flown through Detroit. 😛
Posted October 3rd, 2012 @ 08:10am by Erik J. Barzeski
When the public bets one team in an NFL football game 70% or higher, they win only 42.8% of the time. And the higher the bets, the worse their losing percentage is.
Bookies gamble too.
You can consistently win money betting football games if you apply this knowledge.
Posted October 2nd, 2012 @ 08:06am by Erik J. Barzeski
I've had a Kindle since the second generation. I've decided to either sell it or give it as a gift to someone because the Paperwhite looks to offer a great upgrade at a good price (I'm paying the $20 not to have to look at advertising, too). I've bolded the features that mean the most to me:
Not included are the smaller size (which will be nice - when you get into a book and don't move for half an hour the Kindle 2 and a cover can become tiring). I'm not opting for the 3G version because… I don't really see much use for it. I can load up on books when I'm at home, sync pages when I read, and when I'm out, I can just read.
I read a lot. Not as much as I'd like, but perhaps with the frontlight I can read in bed at night as a way of trying to fall asleep. And a smaller Kindle is a more portable Kindle, so that should help as well.
P.S. Adam Jacob Muller - great comment.
P.P.S. I picked up an orange - or "persimmon" - cover this time around.
P.P.P.S. Gruber's review.