Being Geek Chic is a blog about one woman navigating the male-dominated industries of production and tech. It's written by Elizabeth Giorgi, Founder, CEO and Director of Mighteor - one of the world's first internet video production companies. Learn more about Mighteor here.
“Men are more like Microsoft: They’ll just make a fake version of what that chick made, then try to intimidate everybody into using their product.”
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Louis C.K. on why the next Steve Jobs will be a woman.
Via Fast Company
Do you agree?
We’re not all carving Van Gogh’s - so how can we get a totally awesome pumpkin this Halloween without getting completely overwhelmed? Well, the answer is by sticking to iconic shapes.
As much as I would love to master anything that looked remotely close to these crazy detailed Star Wars pumpkins, I know my limits. Last year, I was fresh off a trip to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter when I made my “modern Potter” pumpkin for my front stoop. The idea was simple: stick to the two most common things associated with Harry - his lightning scar and his round spectacles.
This year, I hope to pull of a simple Mockingjay and will share my results with you, but this all got me thinking that it would be worth pointing out some simple, fun and nerdy pumpkin carvings that you could do in no time at all.
Bob-omb from Mario Brothers
This one is so incredibly simple and cute, it would be a shame to pass it up. Take a pumpkin and carve out two eyes. Paint it black and use a piece of cardboard to cut out the winder for the back. Then, use some materials from around the house or a little painted styrofoam to embellish the top and the feet.
This awesome little guy is courtesy of smosh.com
Pumpkin Pi
I love dual meanings. Pi Pumpkin. Pumpkin Pi. Take your pick. Either way, this baby is a winner. It’s simple, funny and incredibly easy to pull off in 15 minutes or less.
This pumpkin inspiration is courtesy of GirlGoneGeekBlog.com, but go ahead and google it. I’m warning you now that if you’re hungry this is not a great idea. There, you’ve been warned. No go carve.
In Memory: Steve Jobs
This one is pretty self-explanatory and a little more difficult to execute. You almost need to be a pumpkin carving pro in my opinion to navigate all those little spaces around his eyes, but you could focus on JUST the apple and still get an iconic and memorable effect for your pumpkin.
For the brave souls who want to give this one a try, there’s a template available for download from Pink Ray Gun here.
It really sucks that Steve Jobs died. It’s been said millions of times in hundreds of languages in the last 16 hours, but I’ll say it again: he was a visionary.
His vision shouldn’t be lost on us though and there are things that we can glean from Mr. Jobs’s life that can inform our futures, in small and big ways.
Follow your instincts.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Everything else is secondary.
Don’t live worrying about dying.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Do what you love.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
All of these incredible pieces of insight are part of one inspirational speech. If you haven’t watched his 2005 Stanford Commencement speech yet, do it now.
“5 Ways How To Improve iPhone 4 Antenna Reception:
1. Get the iPhone 4 bumper
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2. Hold the phone a different way
3. Isolate or Move the microSIM Card
4. The Budget Solution - Clear Scotch Tape and Live Strong Rubber Bands
5. 3M Vinyl Stickers for Death Grip Corner
~ via Unplggd
But there have been complaints an antenna in the lower left corner can become masked when held by a left-handed owner, causing a drop in signal strength.
The glitch emerged in the form of videos of users demonstrating the fault on technology blogs within hours of the new iPhone going on sale in the US.
Apple boss Steve Jobs defended the gadget and declared: “Just avoid holding it in that way.”
via Telegraph
