Cafe – No Internet Weekends

Posted by on Feb 23, 2009 in Personal Explorations | View Comments

Cafe – No Internet Weekends

I was at one of the nearby cafes last Friday where I noticed this sign. “Internet-Free Zone on Weekends.” I wonder if this is to encourage people to read or socialize on the weekends. Or maybe something more practical, such as not having students hog a table for the whole day. Either way I thought it was interesting and I haven’t seen it anywhere...

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Decluttering My Childhood

Posted by on Feb 19, 2009 in Organization | View Comments

Decluttering My Childhood

Last week I was back home in Miami Beach. The original intent of the trip was to bring some big things down from my home in Tallahassee to store in Miami so I wouldn’t have to move it when I finally go off to bigger and better things. Because I was bringing stuff down, I needed somewhere to store it. So I had a new goal: declutter my room. This is what my room looked like when I got to...

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Porn for Post-It Junkies

Posted by on Feb 17, 2009 in Office Hacks | View Comments

EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo. Visualnary » Blog Archive » Best Post-It™ film ever. From the geniuses behind the Diet Coke / Mentos video, they’ve now tackled my favorite office supply, Post-Its. Please try this at...

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Outsourcing Part 2

Posted by on Feb 12, 2009 in Business, Technology | View Comments

A while back I had written about how I gave up on transcribing the documentary footage myself and turned to Elance to outsource the task. The terms were for $100 they would transcribe 15 hours of footage over 2 business days. Well let’s just say you get what you pay for. It ended up taking about a month for everything to be completed. Now normally that would be unacceptably long, but I was...

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