Yes, I’ll admit that the title of the lens is pretty unoriginal, but it’s just not as punny (my word)Â if it was called Slide Rules Rock! This lens is my shout-out to old-school geekdom: the slide rule.
In Slide Rules Rule!, you’ll find a basic intro to the history of the slipstick from Wikipedia and [...]
Well, I’ve been on Squidoo for almost 2 months, and it’s already become part of my daily ritual. I tend to work on lenses both in the morning AND in the evening! In the morning, sometimes I wake up early (since the sun comes right through my window because it’s summer and the days are [...]
I’ve mentioned this lens briefly before, but in terms of trying new things, 2008 US Puzzle Championship is the niche-est lens I’m in the process of making. While it’s still incomplete and in progress, I decided to publish it anyway. I guess I’m not too worried about people being discouraged because it is incomplete. I [...]
I’ve gotten to that point where some of my lenses are getting old. What I found interesting is that when I first made the lenses, I didn’t publish them until they were the best they could be. Or so I thought. Now, in looking at them again some month or so later, I feel like [...]
That’s right, even though the Give 1 Get 1 promotion is over, it’s still possible to get your own XO laptop. My friend and I each got an XO during the promotion because we believe in what it stands for, it’s very one of a kind and limited in the US, and it’s green. Well, [...]
It isn’t that I didn’t know about the module, it’s that I forgot about it. Last night, I suddenly remembered it and thought that it would be great for some of my California Missions pages. In trying to find and post photos of Mission San Francisco de Solano and Mission Santa Ines, I learned a [...]
I hinted in a previous post that I would be participating in the Google US Puzzle Championship again this year. Well, that was last Saturday and I didn’t do as well as I hoped. Ran into a printer malfunction, but even disregarding that, I wouldn’t have hit my goal of 8 puzzles solved. I’m nowhere [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, one of my good friends is a professional trick shot artist. Because of him, I couldn’t help it but become interested in trick shots myself. Some of the tricks are really physics-defyingly amazing. One of the many questions he gets asked on his website is “What’s a good beginner trick shot?”
On [...]
Firstly, an update on my eBay challenge. Well, the challenge ends this coming Tuesday, June 12th, and I currently have a grand total of…. 4 lenses! So, looks like I won’t be fulfilling the challenge after all. Sure, I have three more full days to work on it, and I could make two lenses [...]
On March 19, 2008, Starbucks announced it will be acquiring Coffee Equipment Company, the small company that produces and awesome single-cup, commercial, French-press style coffee machine that produces a cup in just minutes. I was so excited about this announcement that I wanted to make a lens about it. Well, actually, I joined Squidoo in [...]