Archive for July, 2011

You are likely to be eaten by a grue

July 30th, 2011

I loved playing Zork. And there’s always been a special place in my heart for grues. So naturally I made my 404 page into a text adventure toy with grues. Give it a try. Do I win the prize for geekiest 404 page ever? It’s Javascript. It understands a handful of verbs and nouns (and one [...]

Embossed steel business cards

July 28th, 2011

Had a goofy idea for a stainless steel, embossed business card. You’d only ever need one because you never give it away. Instead, you put a piece of paper on top of it and make a rubbing. Not as quick as trading paper cards but it’d probably be more memorable. Also solves the “problem” of [...]

Cassette what?

July 25th, 2011

Me: I had their first album on cassette. Daughter: On what? Me: Cassette tape. Music used to come on cassettes—little rectangular plastic things about this big—before CDs. Daughter: … Daughter: Oh my god you are so old. And then she laughed and laughed and laughed.