Now This is How You Teach TCP/IP Headers

Use legos.

Yes, this person figured out a way to use legos to represent header files and make them easier to understand.  If you don’t know what a header file is . . . well then you probably don’t care.  If you do care, this is a great instructional tool to explain IT issues to people . . .

Thanks to Boing Boing.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Site Update 4/30/2013

Hey gang, so what’s been up lately?

Well the Resume Guide is FINISHED!  I just have to get it into a publishable format, so I’m expecting it to be out around mid-month or so depending on how fast that goes.  Only issue so far seems to be converting tables . . . which I never expected to be a problem.  I use them once, so . . . we’ll see.

The guide came out pretty well.  In fact, I redid my own resume just to test it out – and it worked pretty well.  So hang in there, it’ll be out soon . . .

As noted, with the print books of the focused fandom titles out, I’m waiting to see how those do.  If you want a review copy, let me know!

Fan To Pro’s upcoming expansions, which I hinted at, seem to be all set.  It’s just a matter of putting in some new stuff and making changes, but that’ll be more near the end of May/start of June.  I think you’ll like what you see . . .

I’m gearing up for Anime North  and hope you’ll be there!  We’ve got an entire 3 hour career block, which includes Fan To Pro going back to its roots with a discussion panel, and a new guest I think you’ll enjoy!

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

A Game Of Chicken

Well, OK, Chick-Fil-A is having some medieval-themed “Date Knight” event. This event encourages sons to take their mothers out to Chick-Fil-A. It appears to be something to encourage family bonding via a kind of knights-and-damsels themed event.

OK, so look I’m not going to bring up Chick-Fil-A’s anti-gay issues, though I can criticize that. I could critique their food, but let’s face it they never claimed to be healthy. Date Knight isn’t a half-bad core idea, encouraging some fun family connections.

Except, as noted in this rant at i09 it’s incredibly creepy.

In fact one of the creepiest things about it is also a prime example of why you need Geeks On Staff to evaluate your cultural impact and choices. You need people who dig deep into culture-focused, technology-enabled culture.  You need people aware of far-flung memes and trends.

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