This is delightfully geeky, I think it’d go really well in our new little home office (currently home to erm, a disgusting number of Macs and 1 old PC).
Category Archives: Geekery
Ikea Expedit Desktop
Today I’m adoring this application created by Laboratory Ideas that basically allows you to organise your desktop into an ikea expedit bookcase, complete with file holders and box inserts.
I’m a massive expedit geek as it is, we have a couple of the bookcases and various accessories for them (including tiny cupboard door inserts which are the best things EVER for hiding a multitude of unorganised sin). I’m not entirely sure I’d go so far as installing and running this app, I’m not sure it’d complement my cat background…!
App Abuser
I’m an app abuser, there’s no two ways about it. I download at least a couple a day, most of them don’t hang around for long, but since getting my iPhone I’ve managed to collect over 7 pages worth of them.
Fair enough I do work for a web/mobile development company specialising in iPhone app development therefore researching apps is key, but still, my iPhone was become a dumping around for all manner of whimsical application. It was getting a little out of hand…
BUT! I found out you can GROUP apps together into neat little menus, how didn’t I know this? It’s fantastic! Yesterday I grouped together my apps and now have a slimline 2 pages of these app groups. SO much better! And less… ahem… embarrassing.
It’s dead easy, when you’re moving an app just put it on top of another, or on top of a group that you want to add it to. TADA!
Red Shirt Alert II
And we’re back!
Its taken me a while but I’ve made it through the second season of Star Trek: The Original Series and have continued my mission (started here) to track the death rates of the three uniform colours. I know some of you will have read the sporadic #TOSscore hashtagged tweets but here is a Series two round up.
Well this is when things got bad for red… real bad!
Series Two Breakdown:
- Safest Colour: Yellow – 1 death over 26 episodes
- Longest Safe Run: Yellow – 0 deaths over 18 episodes
- Most Dangerous Colour: RED!!! – 16 deaths over 28 episodes
- Highest death rate (single episode per colour): Red – 4
- Most Deadly episodes (three way tie) “The Changeling”, “The Apple” and “Obsession” Red – 4 deaths in each
A-Graph Time!:
The second series episode by episode plot of the TOSscore.
As a bonus here is the TOSscore for series one and two combined.
The difference is quit dramatic, I think you’ll agree. Red-shirts now make up 66.67% of all fallen members of the Enterprise crew! (Once series three has been included I might do some real statistics… g33k).
Favourite Tweets:
- Episode 15: “The Trouble with Tribbles”
#TOSscore red-shirts 19, blue-shirts 5, yellow-shirts 6+ “Storage compartments? Storage compartments??”…”What? What?” (Who wants a Tribble?) - Episode 14: “Wolf in the Fold”
#TOSscore red-shirts 19, blue-shirts 5, yellow-shirts 6+ Remember when Jack the Ripper took over the Enterprise (and was defeated by pi) - Episode 13: “Obsession”
#TOSscore red-shirts 19, blue-shirts 4, yellow-shirts 6+Kirk vs the Glittery Vampiric Gas Cloud (Entered through the no.2 impulse vent) - Episode 6: “The Doomsday Machine”
#TOSscore red-shirts 14, blue-shirts 3, yellow-shirts 5 + Blue space worm of DOOM! (Why, I’d love to go to a Damage Control Party, Scotty)
Concluding remarks:
This is a bad series for the red, series two is really when they started getting used as cannon fodder. Unlucky guys! It wasn’t great for the Tribbles either. Now, I haven’t seen series three since I was a kid so I can’t remember if things are going to go from bad to worse or not. So until the end of series three, keep your eye on #TOSscore and your red-shirt in the wardrobe.
I'm Kim, a 26 year old English designer type who lives with two mad kitties and one astrophysicist. I own 
