kirabug’s idea files

I wish I’d've known about SeatGuru the last few times I’ve flown… could’ve gotten a seat with power in Coach!

Click the photos to see each one fade from “on” to Earth Hour.

Booking your vacation? Please engage your brain before leaving — something these folks clearly forgot to do.

OK so drinking chocolate milk after a workout instead of Gatorade is something I think I can get behind. And I hate milk, so that’s saying something.

I linked to this geek chart years and years ago, but that link seems to have long passed.

What’s ironic is that we were just discussing this — “we” being a couple of guy friends at work and “this” being geek rankings — while eating sushi at the local hibachi for lunch the other day.

The problem, I’m told, is that I simply can’t exist. I hit too many of the categories — even if I don’t do so at full depth — to possibly exist.

So just to see if they’re right, I colored the blocks that apply to me:

…And really, I don’t think it’s that bad.

Well, except that this chart doesn’t mention my blog, nine email addresses, programming hobbies, photoshop contests on Fark, collection of original soundtracks for video games, three Twitter accounts, ability to gut and rebuild either a Mac or (in most cases) a PC without hesitation, or the fact that I’m knitting three different things with assistance from knitting apps on my iPhone.

Of course, it’s not those things that my geeky friends claim threw me over the edge.

It’s the fact that I’m also a rabid baseball fan, accomplished do-it-yourself-er, and and I regularly bake pies from scratch. That’s where they say I’ve maxed out my geek card.

I’m pretty sure I exist.

There’s design challenges, and then there’s design challenges. Designing a game about losing your virginity when the design is supposed to be autobiographical, well, ouch. But it definitely stretches the idea of a video game.

The winners? Two women, who had mere days to beat out the competition that had weeks to prepare.