As a small business, we are constantly looking for ways to make our employees feel valued and make Imaginary more attractive as a place to work.
Not too long ago and at the suggestion of Imaginary's Operating Partner, Ric Lee, we began researching a low cost, high value new benefit. Shortly thereafter, we implemented it.
Now, every Imaginary employee receives a free Netflix account.
So far, it's been a great success. It's relatively low cost and pretty much everyone participates. We prefer to have the company pay directly and avoid staff having to expense it. This leads ...
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Updated 05/25/11 @ 12:13PM CDT by brian
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February 02, 2010 10:33 a.m.
Recently I read that the current group of astronauts occupying the the International Space Station is direct Tweeting. Specifically Colonel T.J. Creamer is floating around up there and Tweeting when he can.
This morning as the Moloney family went through our get-ready-for-school/work routine, I was checking my Twitter feed. My 6 year old was over my shoulder and saw a Tweet from Colonel Creamer. Drawn by the NASA logo he asked, "What's that?"
I explained that Colonel Creamer was up in space inside the International Space Station. Because NOVA is an "allowed" television program at our house ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:31AM CDT by brian
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This Friday Star Trek opens. To honor its legacy we are making it a special day at Imaginary.
We are closing the office at 3pm and drinking Romulan Ale (aka beer, dyed blue...although someone might forget the dye). Then we are all transporting ourselves to the Metra and riding to Evanston, where we have tickets to the 4pm showing.
Sure, you can make fun of us - work that whole Trekkie (we prefer Trekker) stereotype, call us geeky. To those who would disrespect us in this way, I have but one question...
What will you be doing at 3pm on ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:51AM CDT by brian
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October 09, 2008 11:10 a.m.
Google Labs just released Mail Goggles, a special feature to give you pause before you drunkenly send a late night email you'll undoubtedly regret in the morning.
According to the Official Gmail Blog post:
When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?
The feature is only active during late nights and weekends.
Brilliant.
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:10AM CDT by brian
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Stephen Colbert is pretty funny and I enjoy his show for what it is - comedy. So imagine my surprise when I read that - among his overarching claims of self-importance - there is scientific truth to the phenomenon, "The Colbert Bump."
In fact, there is more than one scientific-ish study to indicate the reality of the Bump. Each one has pretty graphs to prove their scientific-ness.
One is from Mozilla. On his show, Steven Colbert made mention of the download frenzy of Firefox 3. Within two minutes of the mention, there it was - in all its graphical glory - the Bump ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:18AM CDT by brian
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I have Comcast at home for cable, connectivity and phone. For the most part, it works just fine. However, when it doesn't, I dread the call.
One time my toddler accidentally pressed a standby button on the front of the modem. Forty-five minutes of "off-shoring" later, they had to dispatch a truck. Luckily, I had a seasoned tech who took one look at the pattern of blinking lights and pressed the standby button again.
He took mercy on me by altering the paperwork so that I would not incur the hefty service charge related to "user error." I asked ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:21AM CDT by brian
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April 15, 2008 11:31 a.m.
Ever wonder what happens when an email gets lost or a Web site is unavailable?
Sure, there are the worldly explanations:
- Someone forgot to pay their hosting bill
- A truck ran into a power substation and blew the grid
- Someone fat-fingered the keyboard while logged in as root
If however, you eliminate all these reasons, one remains.
A black hole.
According to the University of Washington, there are a number of servers across the Internet - connected and accessible - that sometimes lose data for unexplainable reasons. These "black holes" are being mapped through a project called Hubble: Monitoring Internet Reachability in ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:31AM CDT by brian
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March 18, 2008 11:34 a.m.
No further commentary is needed.
http://havenworks.com/
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:34AM CDT by brian
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March 07, 2008 11:37 a.m.
Thanks to a co-worker, I stumbled upon a fabulously insightful and totally funny posting called 12 Breeds of Clients and How to Work With Them from the Freelance Switch blog.
We were able to instantly categorize each of our clients into one (or more) of the breeds - and had a good laugh along the way.
It's a funny Friday read.
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:37AM CDT by brian
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March 04, 2008 11:38 a.m.
I stumbled upon a blog posting about someone who purchased some goods from a Home Depot in Washington, D.C. On the way out of the store, he was asked for a copy of the receipt which, for some reason, he declined to produce.
One thing leads to another and the police are involved and the entire sordid story is broadcast to the world on the Consumerist blog.
Included in the blog posting is a rambling email to the CEO of Home Depot as well as a scan of a police complaint filed by the "victim." I stopped counting after ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:38AM CDT by brian
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