• Here's a belated "Mother's Day" shout out – a list of "10 of the Most Powerful Female Characters in Literature" – http://t.co/ykj7MsQY #
• Springfield is transformed into Westeros with King Burns overseeing his nuclear domain & eying the Iron Couch. Awesome! http://t.co/O0yA3Aqe #

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• This is what I look like when I realize I’m wrong about the grammar rule I’m arguing about: http://t.co/6CP82Q0Q via @andre_io #
• For PC wallpaper I use a sick Nat Geo pic of the Statue of Liberty being hit by lightening. Here's the story behind it: http://t.co/QBQY4pep #
• The Death Star would cost about 1.3 million time world GDP – a surprisingly cost-effective weapons system: http://t.co/rVEvz76v #deathstar #
• "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet" ~Stephen Hawking #qotd #

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• People who work 40 hours a week get more done than those who regularly work 60 or more hours. Crazy but true: http://t.co/TVSpmLSF #
• Domaster & Tetrawing are Game Boy related Transformers made out of LEGOs. Julius von Brunk – you sir are a genius: http://t.co/CdA89FXx #
• Fun fact: The distress signal "mayday" came from venez m'aider (come help me) because in 1923 most air travel was between the UK and Paris #
• Silos, once used to store livestock feed, have become unlikely nurseries for trees. Pretty neat. http://t.co/S0oAaxaR – http://t.co/tM5uhZSk #
• Shocker! LGA is the worst US airport for check-in & security, baggage handling, Wi-Fi, staff comm, design & cleanliness:http://t.co/W8dSKzDM #
• "Let's try to play the music and not the background" ~ Ornette Coleman, saxophonist, innovator, iconoclast #qotd #

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• If Kutsher’s Tribeca were a musical it would be "Springtime for Hitler" – the surefire flop /upscale gefilte/ is a hit: http://t.co/dntWzc4m #

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I have been working in the Interactive space since I graduated from college, which is longer ago than I’d like to admit, and my job title has always been either producer or project manager, which means that most people in my life do not understand how I actually earn an income. Usually, when trying to explain my role to friends and family, I use a general contractor or a movie producer as examples.

For the general contractor example, I say, “If you are redoing a kitchen, you don’t care about the types of pipes being used, or the type of wires that are going into the wall. All you care about is what exactly is being done, how long is it going to take and how much is going to cost.” That resonates, especially with homeowners.

For the movie producer example, I say, “Think of the Oscars. Who gets the award for best picture, the most prestigious award of the evening? The producers. What did they do? Direct? No, that went to best director. Make the sets? No, that went to Best Set Design. So what did they do? Everything else, from securing and managing the budget and timeline to making the director and actor get along, when they really dislike each other.” That really resonates, because how doesn’t like movies?

Still, that doesn’t necessarily nail it and now, I can also refer these fine folks to the image below:

Via Kay

A few months back, Gawker posted about how one uber-geek named Roger Craig (no, not the retired San Francisco 49er) was able to develop a web app that modeled America’s favorite question and answer show’s question sequences so that he could win an insane amount of money and break their all time record.

Craig delivered this news to the New York “Quantified Self Show & Tell” where he explains how he developed a web tool and various supporting programs to analyze and effectively train himself on a database of past questions. Its a 14 minute talk and its worth watching if you plan to ever be on the show, like I do.

If you did not know, every year I take the entrance exam hoping / praying that this is the year I end up on the show. When I throw out of my many inane pieces of trivia and/or little known facts, I usually follow it up with the statement, “One day I’m going to be on Jeopardy!” to try to reduce my geek factor. That being said, my secret fear is that I’ll get on the show and get destroyed by my lack of opera and classical music knowledge. Having Mr. Craig’s app to help me identify my weak spots would be ideal.

As an aside, one of the best articles I ever read about “Jeopardy!” was written for GQ magazine and it was titled “Why is Alex Trebek laughing at me?” It came out in the late 90’s and I cannot find it online – I was hoping to link to it in this post. If you find it, please let me know!

If you are using some sort of mobile device to communicate, you have probably experienced some sort of auto-correct failure. This is where you meant to say one thing but your phone/tablet/whatever automatically decided that you really meant to say something else, often to hilarious results.

Damn You Auto Correct is a very funny blog which features, you guess it, a collection of outrageous auto-corrected text messages submitted by readers. At the end of last year, it unveiled its top nine laugh-out-loud entries of the year, based on Facebook shares, tweets, comments and page views. For your reading pleasure, please see the list below. Enjoy!

1. Intended word: “Monday,” not “Man boobs.”
   
   
    
2. Intended word: “Clinic,” not “closet.”
   
   
    
3. Intended word: “Mortgage payment,” not “MOTTSAPPLESAUCE.”
   
   
    
4. Intended word: “Kissed,” not “killed.
   
   
    
5. Intended word: “China,” not “vagina.”
   
   
    
6. Intended word: “Dimples,” not “nipples.”
   
   
    
7. Intended word: “Shirt,” not “shit.”
   
   
    
8. Intended word: “Persian,” not “period.”
   
   
    
9. Intended word: “Mistletoe,” not “cameltoe.”
   
   
    

This news is a few months old but just as funny now as it was then. A few hours after television producers set up a replica of Occupy Wall Street for the filming of a new episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the real Occupy Wall Street announced plans to occupy the fake one.

As Mother Jones put it, “It’s straight out of a Don DeLillo novel.” I frankly just love the speed in which this happened – further proof the “art-life-art” cycle is moving faster than ever.

Let’s say you are bored and want to dial some fun. Why don’t you call 719-266-2837? I decided to press “3″ for a little pick-me-up. That didn’t make you smile? Then try 772-257-4501.

Still not smiling? Then, you should try 212-660-2245 because I’ve got nothing for you. Single men and women – you might want to write that last number down…

In honor of Valentine’s Day, when hundred’s of thousands of geeks feel lonely and unloved, I suggest that you cut and paste the following equation into a Google search box:

sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.

If that didn’t make you smile, then what about a guy dressed as Bender proposing in binary code? Not good enough? Then how about a custom made proposal Pokemon card that another Geek used to pop the question to his girlfriend? Still not good enough, then look around my new favorite site Geekologie.

UPDATE: I had already posted but an infographic propopsal is something not to be missed. Any graphic that says among other things, “Wait a minute, that equals 0.48 total women on earth as perfect as you” screams romance to me.