New Crowdfunding Project: Goal-Fish
Apr. 21st, 2013 07:18 pmGoal-Fish is a new site offering a customizable to-do list by ![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shoaling_souls. It has categories, such as chores and fun, with constraints (day/night, indoor/outdoor, current pain level, cost of supplies, etc.) for available tasks. Once you ask it for a task, it presents a simple description, and you can open detailed instructions if you wish. Learn more here.
The site is optimized for people with assorted physical or mental limitations, so it has a high accessibility rating, but anyone can use it. If you have trouble with choice-paralysis or time management, Goal-Fish looks like a more effective solution than some of the simple to-do prompters already extant. So if you have friends with those kinds of challenges, pass the word.
This is a crowdfunded project. Your donations keep the site going. It's a distraction-free zone with no ads, so donations are the only income. Anyone can use the site free, and access the generic features without an account. Registering is free and lets you add some of your own categories and tasks. Donations allow you to add even more categories and tasks.
shoaling_souls. It has categories, such as chores and fun, with constraints (day/night, indoor/outdoor, current pain level, cost of supplies, etc.) for available tasks. Once you ask it for a task, it presents a simple description, and you can open detailed instructions if you wish. Learn more here. The site is optimized for people with assorted physical or mental limitations, so it has a high accessibility rating, but anyone can use it. If you have trouble with choice-paralysis or time management, Goal-Fish looks like a more effective solution than some of the simple to-do prompters already extant. So if you have friends with those kinds of challenges, pass the word.
This is a crowdfunded project. Your donations keep the site going. It's a distraction-free zone with no ads, so donations are the only income. Anyone can use the site free, and access the generic features without an account. Registering is free and lets you add some of your own categories and tasks. Donations allow you to add even more categories and tasks.
Future Employers
Apr. 19th, 2013 09:08 pmSo there's this cartoon about how what you write online could be seen by future employers.
Let me put it this way: I am me. I am not going to change who I am for the sake of pleasing people I neither like, respect, nor admire. Many people have tried and failed in this endeavor. It will be infinitely less painful for all concerned if everyone who has a problem with who I am is made aware of this in time to avoid me. If you think I'm awesome and want to hire me, great. If you're thinking about hiring me and something I've said freaks you out, please go the fuck away before you hurt yourself on my pointy bits. Giving me money grants access to my professional mode and bumps you up my priority queue; it doesn't make me a different person. Proceed accordingly.
Let me put it this way: I am me. I am not going to change who I am for the sake of pleasing people I neither like, respect, nor admire. Many people have tried and failed in this endeavor. It will be infinitely less painful for all concerned if everyone who has a problem with who I am is made aware of this in time to avoid me. If you think I'm awesome and want to hire me, great. If you're thinking about hiring me and something I've said freaks you out, please go the fuck away before you hurt yourself on my pointy bits. Giving me money grants access to my professional mode and bumps you up my priority queue; it doesn't make me a different person. Proceed accordingly.
App Proposal
Apr. 11th, 2013 12:11 pmIf you're on Dandy, check out this app proposal. It's meant as a time-saver. You designate certain apps as distractions, and then it asks you a trivia question before letting you access them, so you have to think twice.
Search Engine
Apr. 7th, 2013 02:31 amjewelfox tipped me to the search engine DuckDuckGo. I am intrigued by its pyramid structure. That is: it tends to put a definition and some likely hits at the top of the page, then other things underneath. The visual interface is more legible than average too.New Crowdfunding Project: "PoetTown"
Apr. 4th, 2013 12:55 pmPoetTown will be a website hosting poetry supported by such features as tagging, sharing, translation, and many others. It's on IndieGoGo so they'll get however much money is raised. Donors will get membership perks once the site launches.
The one thing it doesn't specify that I really want is a crowdfunding feature so people can buy poems on the site once it opens. If that appeals to you too, feel free to mention it to the builders.
The one thing it doesn't specify that I really want is a crowdfunding feature so people can buy poems on the site once it opens. If that appeals to you too, feel free to mention it to the builders.
New Crowdfunding Project: Building an RPG
Mar. 21st, 2013 04:21 pmThis 9-year-old girl's brothers told her she couldn't make a role-playing game. She's proving them wrong. And this is how we deal with boys telling girls they can't do technology. Notice that the project is already several times over goal. So there.
Mind to Technology
Feb. 20th, 2013 03:02 pm Here's an article about controlling technology with the mind. Manipulating objects, okay, that's fairly safe. Telepathy? I'm counting on the fact that new advances usually start at the slow and stupid end of the spectrum, because that's not something most people are equipped to handle.
Ebook Pricing
Feb. 19th, 2013 09:54 pmHere's a new idea in ebook pricing: pay as you go. (Link courtesy of my partner Doug.) I think it's an improvement over paying full-price up front.
However, I don't think it will be as effective as offering free samples. If you've written a whole book, posting the first chapter free makes sense: if you haven't hooked readers by then, face it, you were never going to get their money anyhow. Short first chapter? Make it the first three.
However, I don't think it will be as effective as offering free samples. If you've written a whole book, posting the first chapter free makes sense: if you haven't hooked readers by then, face it, you were never going to get their money anyhow. Short first chapter? Make it the first three.
Poem: "The Demon in the Clockwork"
Feb. 9th, 2013 07:53 pmThe February 5, 2013 Poetry Fishbowl met the $200 goal for a free epic. This one was selected in an audience poll.
This poem came out of the October 2, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from ![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
e_scapism101 and janetmiles. It also fills the "tyranny / rebellion" square on my Hurt/Comfort Bingo Card. This poem belongs to the series P.I.E. You can read more about Judas goat, scratch monkey Tabris and Westminster Quarters online. And yes, the tree ordination is real.
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Applebee's Fiasco
Feb. 2nd, 2013 01:25 amApplebee's demonstrates how to shoot your own balls off with epic mishandling of public relations. Oh, the FAIL.
Post PC Pioneer
Jan. 21st, 2013 08:32 pmHere's a blog about using a tablet as your primary computer, and doing without a desktop.
While this wouldn't work for me personally, it's gradually attracting more interest and appeals to some people depending on what they use a computer for. That last is crucial, because different devices excel at different things.
While this wouldn't work for me personally, it's gradually attracting more interest and appeals to some people depending on what they use a computer for. That last is crucial, because different devices excel at different things.
Explore the Galaxy
Dec. 2nd, 2012 03:58 amMy God, it's full of stars.
I remember this program, though in other lives I usually encounter it as a hologram. This is it, though, an early little version of the explore-the-galaxy program that humans will be playing with in space one day. It makes me so happy to see this. I've seen even earlier versions and I always stop to play with them. I love these things. Science made this. I love science with a deep and fiery passion, and things like this are why. Even when I can't fly between the stars in body ... I can still do this.
Happy, happy little soul.
I remember this program, though in other lives I usually encounter it as a hologram. This is it, though, an early little version of the explore-the-galaxy program that humans will be playing with in space one day. It makes me so happy to see this. I've seen even earlier versions and I always stop to play with them. I love these things. Science made this. I love science with a deep and fiery passion, and things like this are why. Even when I can't fly between the stars in body ... I can still do this.
Happy, happy little soul.
A Translation App
Nov. 17th, 2012 04:01 pmThere is now an app for cellphones that does realtime voice translation. Sort of. It's progress.
Link courtesy of my_partner_doug.
Poem: "The Cybernetic Sorcerers"
Oct. 7th, 2012 07:53 pmThis poem came out of the October 2-3, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from the_vulture. It has been sponsored by janetmiles and mdlbear.
The Cybernetic Sorcerers
Computers were born out of drudgery
and the desire to escape it,
innovation driven by laziness.
For a long time,
they retained the roots
of their humble origin,
requiring long hours of code
to accomplish things
that the programmers
imagined ought to be easy.
Then someone rediscovered
an old grimoire and found
summoning rituals.
They lifted servants
from the infernal plane
and bound them fast
with lines of light and metal,
Enochian and code.
They were discreet about it,
for the most part, but occasionally
a word would slip out --
IMP software and mailer-daemons.
People called the programmers
computer wizards, but in actuality
they were cybernetic sorcerers.
