‘Tis the season for the Google Santa Tracker. I’ll be enjoying this site with the kids this year. They’re finally old enough to appreciate it.
Month: December 2013
Business card mockup
I started working on a simple business card for myself the other day. It’s more of a calling card since I don’t have a business to go with it. And it’s not really a calling card either, since there’s no phone number on it. It just has an email address, URL, and Twitter handle1.
It’s a design inspired by this minimalist business card that I posted to my blog a few years ago.
I don’t need a business card at all. I’ve rarely had a reason to give one out, and I’m a terrible correspondent. But it was fun to design.
- It’s not my hand in the picture. The image comes from Vistaprint. ↩
Polyphasic sleep mask
Intelclinic launched a Kickstarter project to fund the creation of a polyphasic sleep mask.
NeuroOn is the world’s first brainwave – monitoring SLEEP MASK that allows you to switch from monophasic to polyphasic sleep. That means you can sleep less and more efficiently.
Adopting a polyphasic sleep schedule isn’t practical for me now, but it would be an awesome experiment to try and a cool way—if it works—to add more hours to the day.
Why I bike to work
One of the reasons I bike to work is so I don’t have to use as much gas as the rest of the country.
Sitting in traffic is an expensive activity.
The Pixar Theory Timeline
Jon Negroni’s Pixar Theory has some holes, to be sure, but this timeline, gives a good summary of what the unified Pixar universe is all about.
Asana · Apps & Integrations
Asana is an incredibly useful task manager. It’s my main to-list app on both my phone and computer. They have recently added a number of integrations to make the app even more useful.
I have not done much with this beyond the Google Calendar integration, but I’ll be keeping an eye on this page to see what developers end up doing with this API. I hope IFTTT adds an Asana channel. Connecting my to-do list to the rest of the web could introduce some interesting possibilities.
School project
One of the fun things about having a school aged kid is getting to help him with special projects. This is my favorite so far. I’m not saying I’ve never been prouder of anything else I’ve made. I’m not saying that at all. But this comes close.
The Rise of Twitter Bots
The New Yorker has an interesting look at the robotic side of Twitter and the challenges the service will face as it becomes a bigger business.
As a service, Twitter’s greatest strength is that its users have total control over whom they follow and what they see. As a business, Twitter’s greatest opportunity is in violating that control with advertisements.