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Your clicks, retweets, and Facebookings have spoken! Here are the top 10 articles of 2010 by traffic: 1. Needles of Knitting +5: Using The Craft Skill To Its Best Advantage 2. GenCon 2010 Update: Castle Ravenloft Board Game 3. Coping With Being Single: Ur Doin’ It Wrong 4. Brainless Act Leads to Smart Decision 5. LiveBlogging: Dungeons & Dragons Experience 2010 (DDXP) 6. Top 5 Anime Speech Patterns that Drive Us Nuts 7. 5 Gosh-Honest Reasons Why Your Dating Life … [Read more...]
Twitter is an odd animal. There are unspoken rules, exclusive cliques,weird customs. But most importantly, everyone wants to be followed. Everyone wants to see their follower number rise steadily, even if it never reaches a milliwheaton. The other fun part about Twitter is managing how much you tweet, especially because the Twitter stream looks vastly different if you follow 30 people than if you follow 300 or 3000. Someone who tweets "too much" according to someone who follows 30 people … [Read more...]
Big news! You've probably seen the #fit4gencon movement if you follow geeky folks on Twitter. We use it when we're talking about our healthstyle - eating better, working out, etc. But there were folks who felt left out. They said, "I don't/can't go to GenCon, but I want to be a part of this super cool idea!" Introducing... The +5 CHA Community! Check out our (very) new digs at plus5CHA, where we have our very own, 100% private members-only forum for geeks looking to get … [Read more...]
It's funny how predictably this happens. As part of my healthstyle, I've been cooking a lot of meals at home using ingredients fresh from the farmers market. And every time I tweet about something I'm cooking, I get responses like this: WHOA! How did you DO THAT? That looks AMAZING! I wish I could cook awesome things like that. I don't think I could ever learn how to cook stuff that looks that delicious. That must have taken forever to make! And every time I see these … [Read more...]
I am super excited because this year I'm going to spend most of GenCon WORKING! OMG, WORKING! Yeah, you'd think that I'd want to be all relaxed and have a nice gaming vacation, but nopers, I'm psyched because I'm running some pretty awesome events at GenCon this year and I'd love to have you come to at least one of them. GenCon 2010 Dating Events Geek Speed Dating Find love at Gen Con? Sure can! Go on several mini-dates with single geeks like yourself and maybe you'll leave Indy with a love … [Read more...]
I made a non-resolution that I was going to rock a new healthstyle in 2010, so here I am, being accountable and writing an update about how things are going. If you're totally lost, you may want to go back and read these posts first: What Will You Look Like at GenCon 2010? Get Fit By Becoming A Food Geek (guest post by Darya of SummerTomato) E’s Journey To Food Geek and Fit4GenCon: Part 1 Geeks Can Cook: Apple Pie Breakfast (#fit4gencon) E’s 2010 Goal Word (Not … [Read more...]
I thought I'd give you an update on how the Salad Club at ThinkGeek's World Domination HQ is going. (If you missed the beginning of Salad Club, check it out here.) Depending on the week, we have anywhere from 3-6 people in Salad Club. There are about 4 of us who are in every week, and the others pop in and out from week to week. We have abandoned the Google Docs idea. It may work for your office, but we have a bunch of people who wait until Monday to check the doc and then go shopping, … [Read more...]
Well, I made a non-resolution that I was going to rock a new healthstyle in 2010, so here I am, being accountable and writing an update about how things are going. If you're totally lost, you may want to go back and read these posts first: What Will You Look Like at GenCon 2010? Get Fit By Becoming A Food Geek (guest post by Darya of SummerTomato) E’s Journey To Food Geek and Fit4GenCon: Part 1 Geeks Can Cook: Apple Pie Breakfast (#fit4gencon) E’s 2010 Goal Word (Not … [Read more...]
I've gotten some requests for more information about Salad Club and getting one started at your office. If you missed the first post, pop back and read the overview of Salad Club first. I would make PDF downloads, but let's face it, most folks download something, look at it once, and then forget about it. I'm just going to write it all out here so you can copy/paste/modify/whatever you like. Promotional Emails Subject: The Rules of Salad Club 1st RULE: You do not talk about SALAD CLUB. … [Read more...]
On my quest to become Fit4GenCon, I've invented a club over at my day job at ThinkGeek. It's Salad Club, and the simplest way to describe it is a potluck salad bar. How Salad Club Works Members sign up on a Google Docs spreadsheet and commit to bring 1-2 salad ingredients for the week. For example, this week I'm on greens duty. On Monday, everyone brings in their item and places it in the crisper bins of our fridge. When lunchtime rolls around, Salad Club members pull out the … [Read more...]
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