First off, a disclaimer. I have been, and remain a massive Penny Arcade fan. I read the comic, I watch the series, and I thoroughly enjoyed what they did with Strip Search. This article is about why PAX, the Penny Arcade Expo, isn’t for me. Like many folks, I was excited when PAX Australia was […]
Category Archives: Misc
Why I Tread-Desk
Dr James Levine is widely considered to be one the world’s leading experts on obesity – he was recently named co-director of an initiative sponsored by the Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University, investigating new ways to tackle obesity. For well over 10 years, he’s been researching a concept called NEAT – Non-exercise activity thermogenesis, […]
Modifying a Treadmill for Tread Desking
To follow up my previous post about my new Tread Desk Setup, here’s how you modify a treadmill to be used as a Tread Desk. This post was originally written by John Ford on an internal Automattic blog, he’s kindly given permission for me to reproduce it here. (PS: Check out John’s awesome current project, […]
Tread Desking: The Next Generation
Some time ago, I was inspired by friend of the blog John Ford to try out tread desking. I’d long enjoyed switching between sitting and standing as the mood took me, so I figured it’d be interesting to throw walking into the mix. As it turned out, I was an immediate fan! Strolling at a […]
Proof of Global Warming
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you irrefutable evidence of global warming. See this map of the world, created prior to global warming, Greenland and Antarctica are huge! Now I present this more modern map, both Greenland and Antarctica have melted away to remnants of their former glory. For the future of Greenland and Antarctica, […]