Category: Technology

Need A Baby Name? Try Nymbler!

Post author By Evan Stark
Post date February 19, 2009
17 Comments on Need A Baby Name? Try Nymbler!

It seems that all of my friends are having babies and they all need help picking out a name for the spawn of their love.

Cody and Amy are naming their son Caden despite my many attempts to get them to name him something cool like Hawk, Bear, or Falcon – which happen to be the names I plan to name my triplets when they are born. How do I know I am having triplets? Well, in vitro of course. It will be in the prenup. (We want prenup yeah!)

So while I was perusing the web for all things useful and cool to pass along to my kick butt baby making readers I found this website: http://www.nymbler.com

It starts by giving you some inspirational names and that totally threw me off. What you have to do is start by typing in names you like at the top and then click on “Find Names” and then it will find names similar to the ones you already like. Say for instance you are like the Cribbies and one of you likes the name Elly while the other one likes the name Bacon. Well, put both names in nymbler and it will find something you both can agree on.

I put in the names I liked and this was my result:

nymbler

Word on the street is that Nadya Suleman used this to name her Octuplets, okay, not really, but she might have.

Technology

Where have all my comments gone?

Post author By Evan Stark
Post date February 8, 2009
21 Comments on Where have all my comments gone?

No, this isn’t a cry for your words, it’s a legitimate technical snafu that I am involved in. My comments, or rather your ability to leave a comment, has gone by the way side and I don’t know why or how to get it back. Good thing I have time on my hands to dig through piles of PHP WordPress code.

So, hold your thoughts until I figure this out!

Demotivation

“Eddie, these slides are just fine the way they are, you are the only one that has had a problem with them.”

“I think that the people you have showed them to understand the concepts before they see the slides, but we are using these slides to teach people who aren’t familiar with the process and they don’t make much sense, they are all over the place.”

“Belinda has seen the slides and she is a new employee.”

“Well, Belinda understands machines and machine language, I understand people. My point is, I think these slides can be improved upon and I don’t want ‘good enough’ I want them to be ‘the best’.”

“Well, if you have time you can redo them, but we’ve spent so much time on them already I don’t think anyone else will have time to update theirs.”

At this point I went back to my desk and took the 18 slides that seemed to lack cohesion and made them brilliantly simple. I kept all the material and graphics and turned those 18 slides into 3 simple slides. I emailed them to my co-worker who is coordinating this large training project that we are putting together.

“I got your slides, I’m okay with this, they don’t look too different from the others and so you can use them.”

I was more than a little disappointed. I took something that stunk like a big turd and turned it into something that was clear, concise and smelled like a cinnamon bark candle from Bath and Body works. I worked a friggin’ miracle and she said “It’s okay to use them?”

I sent her an email back.

“Have you ever been given a ‘demotivation’ award?”

I’m so tired with everyone thinking things are “good enough” when just a little more creativity and hard work we can have “Awesome” or “Unbelievable”.

Technology

Google Chrome

Hi Gang, have you downloaded Google Chrome yet? It’s really cool! Some people say it looks like “Fluid” on a Mac, but I don’t have a Mac and so I am really enjoying the simplicity of this browser. Very nice Google, very nice.

Technology

Get a Free Nintendo Wii

Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com is giving away 5 Nintendo Wii Fits. All you have to do is leave a comment and her mother is going to pick 5 random numbers and whoever left that comment number wins. How easy is that? So stop reading Posted Note for now and get over there and try to win one!

1. To enter the “dooce.com Wii Fit Giveaway,” leave a comment on this post. Sweepstakes begins at 2:00 p.m. (Mountain Daylight Time) on 06/30/08. All comments must be received by 5 p.m. (Mountain Daylight Time) on 07/02/08.