Category: Geek

Metroblogging Portland: Green Dragon – a beer geeks heaven New pub right down the street, woot. (tags: pdx beer)

I need to buy one. It needs to: Be powered. Have a reasonably long USB cord (to plug into). Not suck. Thank you!

mental_floss magazine – Racist Commercials Cringe/funny. I am going to go out on a limb here, but I actually think the Volkswagen one has its merits. Please don’t get mad at me. (tags: funny culture tv video) Coulter draws fire over remarks about Jews – CNBC TV – MSNBC.com I really have trouble with Ann [...]

5 Of The Biggest Gangs | A List of Lists Interesting read. Learned stuff and wasn’t bored. (tags: interesting) Chinese Culture Versus German Culture » Adino Online Culture-shock pictogram send-up of the east/west divide, as designed by a Chinese guy who was educated in Germany. (tags: fun china germany culture graphic design)

LibraryThing: Common Knowledge: Social cataloging arrives LibraryThing has unleashed some new features this week. It’ll be interesting to see if their wiki-esque “Common Knowledge” takes off. (tags: books blogshare fun) Neatorama » Blog Archive » Toyota’s World of Warcraft Ad Giggle. Anything that makes fun of the dorks who play hardcore Warcraft makes me amused. [...]

The Portland Mercury | Blogtown, PDX | Denim Night at Olio United This is near Kavi! Yay! (tags: blogshare fashion local pdx) Rad Geek’s Projects » FeedWordPress I’ll be using this–just you wait. (tags: blog tech geek wordpress lyza.com) Video of very small German man laughing at a camel – Boing Boing Continuing proof that [...]

Everything I tell you is Hearsay: I heart Ira I missed Ira Glass speaking at the PDX Convention Center last night. Had one of my headaches. Bleh. (tags: blogshare blog autumn) Main Page – LOLCat Bible Translation Project This was bound to happen. (tags: humor internets wiki lolcat) For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together [...]

Yup, had to move lyza.com again. This time I hope permanently. I was tempted to wait until I’d modified WordPress to my heart’s content, making it awesome and all that, but I really need to get my ass in gear, so you’ll likely see stuff blinking and changing and breaking occasionally. That’s what makes it [...]

For the past several months, there’s been various adulations around the Interweb about Inbox Zero, the somewhat ninja-like discipline of maintaining complete mastery over one’s email life, with the emphasis on the “zero.” That is: Get everything out of your inbox with speed like cheetah. The gist of some of this is simple: get mail [...]

I like books, as you know. I don’t have a collector’s personality, but I collect books like old women collect Hummel figurines and Kinkaide paintings. It’s a somewhat shameful, obsessive thing. I get away with it fiscally because I never buy any clothes. That’s sort of the trade-off. Some people like going into their greenhouses [...]