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Nov 06
VBS 2013 Development Diary: #14: Digital Content Creation & Management
As I have previously mentioned, the first skits we started doing were entirely written by me an hour before we performed them. There was a single Microsoft Word document with all of that week’s skits–that was it. As the years have progressed, we have strived to do better, and as a result we have created …
Nov 01
Bausünde
A German word describing an architectural eyesore (literally: “construction sin”). Or, in my opinion, all skyscrapers in any style other than Art Deco. via Better Than English, which has lots of other neat words from other languages.
Oct 30
Selfish
My wife is so selfish. She doesn’t take her phone with her when she gets out at 3am to go to the gym. Therefore I can’t text her to bring me donuts. I’m starving. My stomach is about to burst out of my middle like in that sci-fi movie with the aliens in it, the …
Oct 28
Humblebrag
n., “a statement in which you pretend to be modest but which you are really using as a way of telling people about your success or achievements.” The word was recently added to the dictionary. Tim Challies, where I first heard the word, has an excellent tutorial on how to humblebrag effectively.
Oct 25
Weird iPod / iTunes issue
A few weeks ago my wife brought me a secondhand iPod Nano to troubleshoot. She had already performed all of the basic troubleshooting steps herself, but it still would not sync with iTunes. When you plugged the iPod into the computer, the computer would see the device, but iTunes would not. It did not matter …
Oct 17
Restrict color printing on Ricoh SP C425
If you are trying to completely restrict any color printing to a Ricoh SP C425, try loading a driver from a Ricoh black and white printer–this removes any ability to send color information to the device.
