50 Shades of Gray owes its popularity to the Kindle, and dubstep would die without iTunes. Now, these don't need the technology. You could read 50 Shades in paperback, and you could listen to dubstep without headphones. But you won't. You don't want to be seen reading smut on the morning bus. You don't want your soft-rock top-40 … Continue reading On Enablers
Category: Asides
Instant Gratification Isn’t Fast Enough
Radio Shack showed me that "instant gratification" is a crappy business model. Radio Shack is collapsing, and that sucks. As a professional prototyper, it's really damn convenient to be able to walk a few blocks and pick up a 470Ω resistor. Sure, it costs 5,000 times more than ordering it from Mouser, but I don't … Continue reading Instant Gratification Isn’t Fast Enough
The Power of Wearables
The more I use them, the more I realize I can do with them. Humanity is beginning to modify itself, and I'd like to inspire you to consider what we could be. Wearables give us the power to call for help, and to keep the help honest. Wearables give us the power to eliminate idle … Continue reading The Power of Wearables
Care and Feeding of a Conspiracy
How do you abuse cards that don't even go in your deck? Let's get bah-roken. Think of conspiracies as build-around-me rares in a standard set. You get one conspiracy or draft-matters Construct per pack, making them as sparse as rares and unlikely to go late. Since the power level of the Hidden Agenda conspiracies depends … Continue reading Care and Feeding of a Conspiracy
MtG Conspiracy Archetypes
Bamboozled by Wizards' multiplayer draft set? Here are the best-supported strategies and key cards for each color combo. Conspiracy is a little ridiculous. Peep the spoiler and you'll see a ridiculous list of ridiculous cards. Even if you weren't trying to draft a multiplayer deck (!) it's a challenge just trying to get the lay … Continue reading MtG Conspiracy Archetypes
Post-social and Post-content
We once expected cars to become personal planes, microwave dinners to beget meal pills, acid trips to be replaced by cyberspace adventures, and video calls to give way to to robot patsies. Now, we expect Google Glass to create a hell of oversharing, stalking, and consumerism. The caveat is that we suck at predicting the … Continue reading Post-social and Post-content
Workstations are for Work
The Tech Sector® seems dead-set on replacing the PC workstation with tablets, phones, and similar mobile touchscreen gadgets. Office on the iPad is a big deal, since many people use the suite each workday. I can only hope they fail. It makes sense to move beyond the "station" part of the workstation. If the tools … Continue reading Workstations are for Work
Solidus
I got a MacBook Air a few weeks ago. When I replaced the hard drive, I named the new one Solidus. I picked the name because the previous owner named the computer Solid Snake. In the game, Solidus is the character's 'older brother' of sorts, which fit. Of course, it's a solid-state drive, so the … Continue reading Solidus
S**t Cyborgs Say
"I'd like the salmon... wait, my Apple stock just popped to 400. Make that the surf-n-turf." "Dude, I can't believe you tried negging her! It's trending!" "Let's stay for another drink. My car got stuck in traffic after it dropped off the kids." "Dammit, son! No live-streaming when I'm telling you off!" "You get Zuckerberg … Continue reading S**t Cyborgs Say
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