What if we read lyrics before hearing the song? You have no idea what the music will sound like. Or even the genre. All you have are the lyrics in words. Some songs might sound more poetic than their audio/music version. Some other songs’ lyrics would certainly sound really lame when you just read it …
Arcade fun and simultaneous turn based strategy in the 2000s
Quidd’s new marketplace looks like it could be a place to make some money. So far what seems to really sell for high prices on Quidd are cards serialized as #1. Makes sense, the count #1 card is always the most sought-after. Three ways of getting a count #1 card in Quidd Random luck through …
For about six months I actively collected digital cards on the Quidd iOS app. I spent a couple dollars inside the app. I eventually gave it up, because the app was getting more and more geared leveraged for people who spent money to buy a ton of coins (which then in turn is used to …
Yeti Iceweaver (Crazy Defense Heroes) digital card Read More »
Leave a browser window open with an entry from thesaurus.com. After about 30 seconds, this giant ad will automatically appear. I’m working on two monitors, so one of my monitors all of the sudden made me feel like I was traveling through hyperspace. *In a trance* “Yesssss, I want to jooooin IBM Clouuuuuud” Ironic that …
We have a porch light that we used to keep on all the time. We would just forget to turn it off. Now that I have a smart bulb in there, it’s running a schedule (5pm to 5am), so I’m saving 12 hours of electricity. There’s a cool calculator that figures out how much money …
The problem of special characters appearing as horizontal lines or blank boxes Sometimes people will use cute unicode characters as their Twitter name or Linkedin name. But then the text appears as a bunch of horizontal lines. Here’s a Linkedin user’s name as it appears in Chrome: What are those horizontal lines? Whenever I scroll …
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Under five minutes:• Biz in 60 seconds• WSJ minute briefing• LensWork• Little Happier• 60-second science• 2-minute jazz Conversational style:• The BeanCast (marketing)• Circulating Ideas (librarians)• Happier with Gretchen Rubin (life hacks)• MBMBaM (comedy)• ReCode Media (tech/business)• Something You Should Know• Hidden Brain• Hidden Forces• 40 Minutes In The Old Testament• Christianity on Trial Prepared/organized/researched:• Bible Project (by far my #1 most …
The “.acb” file is actually an xml file. If you open the .acb file inside a text editor, you’ll see something like this: You’ll see the color values are stored in RGB format. We want them in hex. Steps to convert acb to hexvalues 1. Convert your acb file to a tab-delimited file 1a. Create …
How to pull hex-values from an autocad color book “acb” file Read More »
A new section on Spudart.org for ideas I’m building a place on spudart.org for my quick thoughts and beginning ideas. This will be public place on the site for anyone to see. I have so many unpublished ideas that never get out there. I feel like there should be some place for these things to …
