By Chris Gagne
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October 29, 2008
I met Ben Katz of Etchstar.com–home to engraved iPods, engraved MacBooks, and other awesome custom electronics–at a recent LA tech meetup. He handed me an awesome all-metal business card, and we struck up a quick conversation.
Ben offered me a nice deal on an etching for my MacBook Pro. I thought about for a few days and [...]
By Chris Gagne
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September 2, 2008
I can’t tell if they loath it or love it, but one thing is sure; they’re not indifferent.
By Chris Gagne
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July 23, 2008
select * from views
where referrer like ‘%phoenix%’
order by time desc
(Interpreting “*” as “all”, ignoring pronunciation of “%”, and pronouncing “desc” as one syllable.)
By Chris Gagne
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July 12, 2008
Oh instant message SPAM…
I’ve kinda got a bit of a crush on you XXXX.. If you wanna know who I am though you’re gonna have to Click Here and play along with my game!
Hey there! - You have been selected for a free vacation to the Bahamas! Click Here to confirm your prize before its too [...]
By Chris Gagne
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July 3, 2008
About a year ago, I left a job as a Director of Client Services and began interviewing at other firms. I had a great interview with a firm that I’ll call Company Y. After the interview, I wrote up a little essay describing my thoughts on the scalability, people, and operation of a client/customer service [...]
By Chris Gagne
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March 9, 2008
More specifically, I hate numbers or letter representations of priorities when it comes to product backlogs.
It’s a common strategy, even in Scrum. (Henrik Kniberg’s wonderful scrum book talks about a product backlog where higher priority items get higher priority numbers, preventing the “if this is critical and priority 0, what is ultra-critical? priority -1″ issue.)
So why the [...]
By Chris Gagne
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June 4, 2007
Warm up the machine, portafilter, and glassware.
Set, grind, and dose. 28 grams. Triple basket in a “naked” portafilter. Free trade, organic, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe from Supreme Bean. Tastes like blueberries!
“Tamp” the coffee down. 30-40 pounds of pressure. Polish. Use a bathroom scale for practice.
Lock and load, baby. PID set to 202.5 degrees.
WE HAVE IGNITION! (5mb QT [...]
By Chris Gagne
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June 4, 2007
“You Are NOT the Anything-Killer Until You Actually Kill Something” (link)
Ten years from now when we reminisce about the 00’s and laugh about Web 2.0 companies, one of the lamest company pitches we are going to remember is this:
Our Company is the <Insert Successful Company> - Killer
Netscape will launch the Digg-Killer
Socializr is the Evite-Killer
AnythingYouCanName.com is [...]
By Chris Gagne
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June 3, 2007
THE SOCIAL NORM OF LEAVING THE TOILET SEAT DOWN: A GAME THEORETIC ANALYSIS (link to the article)
. . . In this paper, we internalize the cost of yelling and model the conflict as a non-cooperative game between two species, males and females.We find that the social norm of leaving the toilet seat down is inefficient. [...]
By Chris Gagne
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May 22, 2007
I’m looking forward to seeing folks at tonight’s G33k Dinner in LA:
Date: May 22th, 8pm dinner, Chinatown, How about Plum Tree Inn
913 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012, (213) 613-1819
We’re back in the “party room”
Interested in learning more about the event? Check out the wiki.
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