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Grandma’s Fridge 2011

Christian — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:22:13 +0000

This page is Grandma Bauman’s Fridge for 2011. Just leave a comment below for all to see. Keep in mind your comment may not show up immediately as I have to approve comments to keep out the spam.

Business-Fett

Christian — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:36:18 +0000

Gotta love it.
Business-Fett

How the stimulus bill will help you

Christian — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:49:08 +0000

How the stimulus bill will help you, and how soon: What The Stimulus Bill Has For Everyday Americans

Anyone for a little jazz flute on the subway?

Christian — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:31:06 +0000

Projector and Music Modules from Bug Labs

Christian — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:46:03 +0000

On the long list of things I don’t have time for, but am thoroughly interested in, is the emerging homebrew open source hardware from Bug Labs and Arduino.

Bug Labs just announced new modules that have a projector, a music module with multiple audio inputs and outputs, as well as modules for Bluetooth, GSM and wifi. If you know a little java and want a kick ass hobby, it’s definitely worth checking out.

Now I just need to forgo sleep, or find a friend who does mess with these things so I can live vicariously through them.

Vote Today!

Christian — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:59:27 +0000

Find out where to vote
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Dear Scientists, Stories Matter

Christian — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:12:52 +0000

Anyone who works in science should listen to this fantastic speech from Robert Krulwich on why scientists should be more like Galileo and less like Isaac Newton. Hard-won data is a powerful thing, but that same data narrated and illustrated and, ultimately, understood in the minds of the world has an impact that is much deeper.

The Muppets Celebrate the 4th of July with a New Video

Christian — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:46:52 +0000

Want to Understand the “Credit Crises”? Listen to This.

Christian — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:28:48 +0000

This American Life did a great show called The Giant Pool of Money that gives a clear explanation of the series of events that led the economy to it’s current state. It’s a quick listen and will give you a grip on what’s going on.

Netflix Removing Separate Profiles, Trying to Destroy Marriages

Christian — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:24:21 +0000

Back in 2005, Netflix introduced a feature they themselves called the “marriage saver“. Well, evidently, Netflix has declared war on marriage since they have decided to remove the ability to have separate queues for each member of the household. This screenshot illustrates it well.

On September 1st, they will delete all of your additional profiles. If you haven’t moved any movies from your family profiles into the main profile, which you are expected to do manually one movie at a time, then you loose those lists forever. Too bad for you. To make this “improvement” even more absurd, they actually suggest you “print them out”. Yeah, because we all joined Netflix so we could have printed paper lists.

There is no reason for them to remove this feature other than they suspect multiple people are sharing accounts just to save money. So, since they suspect they’re losing revenue, they are going to make the entire experience less convenient for everyone by removing this obvious and necessary feature.

This change will help us continue to improve the Netflix website for all our customers.

Just ridiculous. There are plenty of alternatives these days, so one can easily see a lot of canceled accounts over this. (Starting with mine.)