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...on pampers, programming & pitching manure: Book Review: The Coke Machine
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On pampers, programming and pitching manure. Tuesday, November 12, 2013. Book Review: The Coke Machine. Is an interesting history of one of America's most iconic brands and companies. Clearly written with an anti-Coke bias, but even if half of what it accuses is true, then it seriously gives pause. There's an awful lot of smoke for there NOT to be a fire. Interesting book, but a little depressing. I'll think twice before drinking their products. View my complete profile. Gaping Void (get on the Hughtrain!
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...on pampers, programming & pitching manure: Book Review: Sleights of Mind
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On pampers, programming and pitching manure. Sunday, July 7, 2013. Book Review: Sleights of Mind. I really enjoyed this book. A couple years back I read a couple books on performing magic as I thought there were some interesting bits that could apply to giving presentations, product demos and the like. I not only learned a lot, but it's given me a lot to think about in terms of the future of graphics, user interfaces, gaming and more. Fascinating stuff! View my complete profile. Kotaku (Game-U, Joke-U!
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...on pampers, programming & pitching manure: Book Review: Who Owns the Future
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On pampers, programming and pitching manure. Friday, September 27, 2013. Book Review: Who Owns the Future. This is strike two for me with Jaron Lanier's books. It's too bad, because I really admire his thinking, but I gave a weak review to You Are Not a Gadget. And have to do the same here. In Who Owns the Future? While initial idea of Siren Servers is one I agree with, and serveral of Lanier's observations are astute, that's where I start to part ways with his thinking. Who Owns the Future?
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...on pampers, programming & pitching manure: Book Review: How Will You Measure Your Life?
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On pampers, programming and pitching manure. Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Book Review: How Will You Measure Your Life? I'm a big fan of Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma and other books about innovation and creative disruption. I was surprised to learn that he'd written a slightly different book, How Will You Measure Your Life? How Will You Measure Your Life? Technology planner, futurist, blogger, husband, father, gamer, practioner of sleep deprivation. View my complete profile.
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...on pampers, programming & pitching manure: Book Review: Love With a Chance of Drowning
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On pampers, programming and pitching manure. Friday, August 16, 2013. Book Review: Love With a Chance of Drowning. Picked this one up after seeing it on the shelf at Powells, thinking it would be something me and Alisa would both enjoy. I was right. There's adventure, humor, romance. It's a fun read. Technology planner, futurist, blogger, husband, father, gamer, practioner of sleep deprivation. View my complete profile. Gaping Void (get on the Hughtrain! Kotaku (Game-U, Joke-U! Video Game Venture Capital.
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...on pampers, programming & pitching manure: Book Review: It's Complicated
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On pampers, programming and pitching manure. Monday, August 4, 2014. Book Review: It's Complicated. I've scaled back the book reviews on my blog. Combination of being busy and just being less interested than in the past in doing so. That said, I intend to make a point of adding reviews for books I deem important, and danah boyd's book, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. Is just such a book. From the closing passage of the book, boyd summarizes why I think the book is so important:.
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...on pampers, programming & pitching manure: Book Review: The Blind Giant
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On pampers, programming and pitching manure. Sunday, September 15, 2013. Book Review: The Blind Giant. A while back I read (and subsequently reviewed) Angelmaker. By Nick Harkaway. I loved it so much I looked into what else he'd written. I found out that he had a non-fiction work about the impact of technology on business and culture, and so gave it a read. Technology planner, futurist, blogger, husband, father, gamer, practioner of sleep deprivation. View my complete profile. Kotaku (Game-U, Joke-U!
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Life on the Frontier: How to Set an Object's Rotation in Maxscript
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Life on the Frontier. Friday, April 24, 2009. How to Set an Object's Rotation in Maxscript. Set the given object's rotation to the given values. Fn SetObjectRotation obj rx ry rz =. Reset the object's transformation matrix so that. It only includes position and scale information. Doing this clears out any previous object rotation. Local translateMat = transMatrix obj.transform.pos. Local scaleMat = scaleMatrix obj.transform.scale. Objtransform = scaleMat * translateMat. Rotate obj (angleaxis rx [1,0,0]).
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...on pampers, programming & pitching manure: Book Review: Good Strategy - Bad Strategy
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On pampers, programming and pitching manure. Friday, May 24, 2013. Book Review: Good Strategy - Bad Strategy. I rather enjoyed Good Strategy Bad Strategy. It's a very back-to-basics approach to business strategy that I found a nice reminder that strategy doesn't need to be that complicated. It's very much a one-idea business book but that's OK in this case. The author starts by outlining what he calls the kernel of any strategy:. A diagnosis of the situation/problem/opportunity. Stuff I didn't like:.
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...on pampers, programming & pitching manure: Book Review: Future Perfect
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On pampers, programming and pitching manure. Sunday, December 22, 2013. Book Review: Future Perfect. I'm behind on reviews so keeping these short. The book's main premise is that peer networks, and 'peer progressives' (his term for sort of folk with a neo-progressive mindset and a belief in peer networks as the tool to get us there) will improve many facets of our future. Some interesting ideas, but not high on my 'recommended' list. Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age.
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