Category: Culture
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Where’s The Caffeine?
The most popular post on my blog to date is 5 Reasons Tim Hortons Sucks. In the post, I mentioned how terrible Tim Hortons coffee tastes. I failed to consider the actual caffeine levels of Tim Hortons. I did some digging around and calculating, Tim Hortons coffee has an average of 0.36mg/ml of caffeine. On…
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User Feedback & Twitter
When we launched the new HipHopDX.com at the beginning of the month, I was quite surprised at the inital feedback I was seeing on twitter versus the email I was receiving from the contact form. Twitter was generating 90-95% positive feedback, whereas emails were 100% negative! The few negative tweets were all fairly constructive and…
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“Ohmygosh…I lead an overview of some of my favorite windows 7 features! It was totally informal.”
Yesterday I watched a 10 minute video of an HD camera tethered to a weather balloon as it climbed to 100,000ft then plummeted back to Earth. The video was a lot of spinning and whooshing. I got through all 10 minutes of that video. I could not even get through the first minute of this…
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Nerd Nostalgia: Computer Chronicles
Computer Chronicles was very influential in my early development as a nerd. I had almost entirely forgotten about the show until a recent series of posts on reddit. The show covered the rise of the personal computer revolution in typical PBS news magazine type format. According to Wikipedia, the series ran from 1981 – 2002.…
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Old Age
9:23:13 AM Ryan Neudorf: i feel old, my cousin-in-law mentioned “snow patrol” on her twitter and I immediatey thought “skiing in june?” 9:24:26 AMMichael: yikes. 9:24:58 AM Ryan Neudorf: then i goggled and my next reaction was “people like this crap?” 9:25:12 AM Ryan Neudorf: then i sat down in my rocking chair and whittled…