Archive for the ‘geek skills’ Category
ET, Please Phone Home
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under geek skills
If you’re a habitual This American Life radio listener like I am, you might have heard the story about a guy who has differences with his dad in the program entitled “Go Ask Your Father.”
Unlike most father-son conflicts, this one wasn’t about sports, report cards, or borrowing the car to make out with the girl [...]
The Do Not Call List
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The Do Not Call List Is Broken
The Do Not Call List is another new feature on our modern communications landscape, and it’s one I’m not particularly fond of. You see, the Do Not Call List does exactly what you don’t want it to do — it makes your phone number readily available to telemarketers.
To put [...]
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Serious String
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game writer, geek skills
A necessity in any game writer’s arsenal.
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YouTube Quality: The Hack
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YouTube Quality Puzzle Solved By A Blogger Who’s Not Me
YouTube video quality is a mysterious thing, especially since they run their own compression on (most? all?) video that’s been uploaded to the site.
Even more mysterious is how to get YouTube videos to default to high quality when you embed them on your own website.
Recently we [...]
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A moment of Amy Winehouse levity from Photoshop Disasters
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under geek skills
Photoshop Disasters is often good for a howl. And it fits nicely into my “geek skills” category on this blog.
With great power comes great responsibility, yadda yadda yadda. As if Amy Winehouse doesn’t have enough problems… she now has Thing growing out of her left shoulder.
(Click to visit Photoshop Disasters. They’ve got some doozies.)
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Can you geek it old-school?
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under geek skills
Quick note: are you retro?
Can you do the old-school geek thing?
Check out the Obsolete Skills List and see which ones ring a bell. What can you still do? Optimize modem connections with AT commands? Park a hard disk? (Okay, so it’s not that hard.) How about use a scythe or a sextant?
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