Life Update: New Baby and Everything In Between A collection of life moments and favorite things from the past month Photo by Terri Hawkins Phelan We had a new baby girl who has been fun to watch get bigger every day. So far, she is averaging a little over an ounce a day, if you can believe that. She is 89 percentile for height, so I already have big basketball plans for her, I can't...
Fixing Spotify Issues on Ubuntu I love Spotify. If you haven't tried it, you should definitely check it out. I had been having some problems with the newer preview releases of the application on my Ubuntu machine at home. If you run into issues yourself, you can try the following in terminal:
@Sacca: Hey Jeremy, Eddie Van Halen once came into my record store... Jeremy Person: Yeah big fan @Sacca: And when he went over to the Van Halen section, he saw the Sammy Hagar solo album @Sacca: And he grabbed it and whipped it across the store @Sacca: smashing the case in the process. :) Jeremy Person: Haha, no... @Sacca: true story. 2000 in park city, utah Jeremy Person: And then he just walked out? @Sacca:...
My notes from the video: Don't write books to make money 170,000 books published every year and less than 1,000 make money Books spread ideas with authority, and they are souvenirs of ideas. If you can open the door for somebody and help them think a different way, and cause a positive change in the world, that is a good day's work. Zappos.com is a service company that happens to sell shoes. Zig Ziglar story...
Some visionaries over at Microsoft Labs have put a lot of hard work and devotion to a video displaying our digital world in 2019. Heavily relying on touch and constant interconnectivity, our digital future looks quite promising — especially to geeks like us. In 2019 smart office and household devices cater for our needs in the most intuitive way possible. The video showcases seamless integration between devices, with information flowing naturally across surfaces and interfaces....
Solving a Rubik's Cube is challenging enough for humans, but engineer Mike Dobson took it a step further by creating a robot that can solve it in under 12 seconds—using only LEGO Mindstorms pieces. Dubbed “Cubestormer,” this remarkable creation connects to a PC that processes the cube's configuration and determines the solution. The robot features four mechanical “hands” that can rotate the cube in all directions with precision and speed. A camera focused on the...