http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko technology, arts, humor...and the rest of the universe Wed, 09 May 2012 20:18:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/nu-propozl-foor-fonetik-speliq-new-proposal-for-phonetic-spelling/ http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/nu-propozl-foor-fonetik-speliq-new-proposal-for-phonetic-spelling/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 19:58:59 +0000 Antone Roundy http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=767 I’ve posted an idea for an English phonetic spelling system before. It’s an idea I’d still like to see implemented. But I’ve changed some of the details. As I recently commented on Facebook (reproduced here since the comment isn’t publicly visible): The transition to phonetic spelling would be painful for a little while. But the pain it [...] http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/nu-propozl-foor-fonetik-speliq-new-proposal-for-phonetic-spelling/feed/ 0 http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/how-i-finally-started-exercising-consistently/ http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/how-i-finally-started-exercising-consistently/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:15:28 +0000 Antone Roundy http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=758 If you’re anything like I used to be, getting regular exercise is a chore that you have a hard time sticking to for long. Hopefully my experience slaying that dragon will help. (Plus, you can download a free script I created to help near the end of this post.) I’d known for years that I needed [...] http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/how-i-finally-started-exercising-consistently/feed/ 2 http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/a-number-puzzle-for-you-geniuses/ http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/a-number-puzzle-for-you-geniuses/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:22:15 +0000 Antone Roundy http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=754 Here’s a little number puzzle that I dreamed up today for your geniuses out there. Explain this sequence of numbers: 2, 3, 5, 10, 17, 41, 100, 245, 765, 2502, 10453 I could have made it a little easier…but why spoil the fun! If anyone gets it, I’ll be very impressed. (If it stumps you, send a [...] http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/a-number-puzzle-for-you-geniuses/feed/ 0 http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/gingrich-didnt-want-to-see-romneys-tax-return/ http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/gingrich-didnt-want-to-see-romneys-tax-return/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:17:37 +0000 Antone Roundy http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=751 After Mitt Romney agreed to release his tax return sooner rather than later, as he’d originally planned, Newt Gingrich responded with this: I think it’s exactly the right thing to do. And as far as I’m concerned, that particular issue is now set aside and we can go on and talk about other, bigger, and more [...] http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/gingrich-didnt-want-to-see-romneys-tax-return/feed/ 0 http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/whitehouse-error-in-response-to-romneys-tax-rate/ http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/whitehouse-error-in-response-to-romneys-tax-rate/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:02:42 +0000 Antone Roundy http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=748 After Mitt Romney revealed that he pays about 15% in taxes, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said: Everybody who’s working hard ought to pay their fair share, and and that includes millionaires who might be paying an effective tax rate of 15% when folks making $50,000 or $75,000 or $100,000 a year are paying much [...] http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/whitehouse-error-in-response-to-romneys-tax-rate/feed/ 0 http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/what-im-working-on-machine-vision-software/ http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/what-im-working-on-machine-vision-software/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:07:53 +0000 Antone Roundy http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=746 A few months ago, I shifted gears to focus on a few major projects, some of which are outside of the webmaster and marketing tools space that I’d focused primarily on for quite a while. One of those projects is a new website to sell a machine vision software package that I’d done some contracting [...] http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/what-im-working-on-machine-vision-software/feed/ 0 http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/good-and-evil/ http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/good-and-evil/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:49:26 +0000 Antone Roundy http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=715 I like this quote: Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. Simone Weil The more you experience real good, the closer your imagination aligns with reality. http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/good-and-evil/feed/ 0 http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/the-role-of-rules-in-developing-self-discipline/ http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/the-role-of-rules-in-developing-self-discipline/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:11:09 +0000 Antone Roundy http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/the-role-of-rules-in-developing-self-discipline/ This morning, Seth Godin published something that reminded me of some ideas I’ve turned over in my head before: …the rationale … appears to be that at some point, obedience transforms into self-control. That at some point, people start obeying themselves and become leaders. Self-control is without a doubt one of the building blocks of success, [...] http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/the-role-of-rules-in-developing-self-discipline/feed/ 0 http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/the-problem-with-firefox-app-tabs/ http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/the-problem-with-firefox-app-tabs/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:28:24 +0000 Antone Roundy http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=712 What I like about Firefox’s App Tabs is how narrow they are — just the width of an icon, plus a little padding. What I don’t like about Firefox’s App Tabs is how narrow they are… I use an App Tab for Google+. I’d also be using them for GMail and SEO Content Factory if it [...] http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/the-problem-with-firefox-app-tabs/feed/ 0 http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/governments-role-in-times-of-transition/ http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/governments-role-in-times-of-transition/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:46:46 +0000 Antone Roundy http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=710 The times, they are a changin’. As they always do. Change causes pain. Because it requires change. It requires adaptation. It requires abandoning old comforts that no longer have a foundation to stand on, finding new foundations, and building on them. What is the role of government in times of major change? Daniel Levis wrote: When the economy [...] http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/governments-role-in-times-of-transition/feed/ 0