Showing Articles tagged: Geeky

Wearable Focus Aids for the Easily Distractable

POSTED Mon Feb.06.2012 by Dave Seah UNDER Productivity TAGGED ,

I have been very distracted lately. There’s a lot going on with personal and client projects, and I’ve had to be very flexible with my scheduling. Because of this, I find myself task-switching more often than I like, which means reloading my brain with another context and skill set. Jumping between writing code, doing design [...]

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Voltron: Defender of Your Data

POSTED Fri Sep.10.2010 by Dave Seah UNDER Encounters, Things TAGGED

My buddy Alen, who has been the grandmaster of the venerable Japanese toy robot site ToyboxDX for nearly as long as I’ve known him, has been slowly building an army of original character toys. His latest: a licensed Voltron: Defender of the Universe, in a diminutive 2G USB Flash Drive package

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The Star Trek Online Experience

POSTED Tue Jun.08.2010 by Dave Seah UNDER Encounters TAGGED

This is NOT a review, but it IS a very long unabashed rundown of my two-week experience playing Star Trek Online, a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game from Cryptic Entertainment. And yes, I did actually gain some useful insights from it.

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Desktop Unbound!

POSTED Tue Oct.13.2009 by Dave Seah UNDER Personal TAGGED

Yeah, I should be saving money, but I came across a 2007 review of Ergotron LCD monitor arms on Coding Horror. Digging around on Amazon, I saw that Ergotron, the company that sells these arms, had a dual arm laptop + monitor kit for about $200. In that moment, I saw that this was the [...]

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A “Make Your Own Museum” Text Adventure

POSTED Mon May.05.2008 by Dave Seah UNDER Personal TAGGED ,

Charged up from our on-site experience at the San Jose Tech Innovation Museum, I had this funny idea about a museum that would house everything that I thought was cool. I realized that a lot of the things I like have some kind of transformative power, and that a lot of these artifacts were actually [...]

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Desktop Grilling

POSTED Tue Dec.04.2007 by Dave Seah UNDER Culture, Personal TAGGED

Last Christmas, a good friend of mine surprised me an indoor electric grill. I was surprised in that Why, I never considered getting one of these way, where you’re actually not sure what you’re going to do with the gift. I like grilling outside and burning stuff, and the idea of doing this in my [...]

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DIY Tech @ Barcamp Manchester (USA)

POSTED Thu Jul.26.2007 by Dave Seah UNDER Personal TAGGED ,

It’s that time of year again for all good builders, geeks, and DIYers in the Manchester, New Hampshire area to gather for BarCamp Manchester (USA). It’s coming up this very Saturday, July 28th, at the Amoskeag Business Incubator on S. Commercial St. It’s the second barcamp ever, and I’m looking forward to remeeting the friends [...]

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