Posts Tagged ‘geek’

Have you ‘Extreme Stumbled’ yet?

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

I’d like to think I have an extreme lifestyle.  Sometimes I run up stairs really fast and get a little dizzy and I have been known to eat something that’s a day out of date.

Another one of my daredevil hobbies is ‘Extreme Stumbling’ [I think I may have coined a phrase there].

How to Extreme Stumble

Basically hold down cmd [ctrl on pc] + click like a madman on the ‘Stumble’ button on the StumbleUpon toolbar, opening loads of new pages in tabs.  I find this method of stumbling to be far superior than the regular boring method of one at a time.  Come on, that’s for sissies.

Extreme Stumbling is an inspiration overload!  It’s also a great way of seeing how much decent content you usually get in comparison to inspirational posters.

Rules

  • Keep hitting ‘Stumble’ until someone in the office looks to see what the noise is or until your finger falls off [My record is 113 open tabs]
  • Go through each tab one at a time.  Don’t be skipping ahead now!
  • Don’t close the browser until you have seen all tabs

Guaranteed to get:

  • An annoying sound/music playing from one tab that you cannot find
  • At least one naked lady
  • Inspired like hell

Rare

  • Finding your own site
  • Finding a duplicate

Anybody else do this or is it just me?

Fanboys - The Movie

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Aw, one of the guys is called Windows and he gets his ass kicked by Harry Knowles. Bless.

Love the ‘featuring’ bit at the end.

Post-it obsession

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

My long obsession with post-it notes + my new found love for origami.

I think this is a David Brent ‘merging of fingers’ scenario.

Post it notes are always fun, but now you can make beautiful little creations with these origami post its after you’re finished with your note, or before I suppose.  They come with various instructions on the actual post it, which is handy.   I’m interested to see how it works though.  Surely if you start folding then you might not be able to read the next step?  Could be a design flaw.  Think I’ll order some just in case :)

Surfed around on the site [when I should be working] and found some other geeky things I really want now!  Like the to do tattoo and the bacon wallet!

Seeing as this post is all things post-it, look what has appeared on the floor above me in Uni!

It’s a really simple and impressive idea.  It looks fantastic close up and from across the uni.  I’ve never put any of my creations on a large scale before and this student’s work has got me thinking.  There is definitely something oppressive about a large scale piece of work, and perhaps I could create something with a bit more strength if it didn’t fit inside a monitor?  Projection would interest me as a potential media.  Or a large scale post it creation?  Creatively speaking I should not limit myself at all.  I should be thinking not just about what could fit on a wall.  What if it covered a city?  What if the piece could cover the world?

A few ideas are floating around for my end of year show now.