azurelunatic | Notes for the Geek Housekeeping thing (shower time inspirations)

theferrett already wrote the book on LAN parties.
What's your cleaning style, background or batch job?
What to have redundancies on and where you can skimp.
Cable ties, proper use of. The Xmas ornament hanger & push-pin way to a trip-free floor. How much cable to get and why.
Snack foods at the computer: crumby, drippy, bite sized, and big. Which is neatest! (Quizzie: rate your snack?)
Liquids near the computer: safeguarding, spillproofing, emergency recovery.
Adapting common household tips for the geek attention span.
Get your ass out the door in the morning for work! Timing your morning routine, alarm clocks, on-task triggers, preparation, shortcuts, redundancies
Stay-At-Home Geek? Beating boredom, honing house-fu.
Targeted Cleanup Tips: co-workers, dates, buddies, parents, and kids.
How to kid-proof your geek digs, with sections especially for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers, barely-rational, elementary, and teen.
Emergency de-geekification: what makes your pad look geeky, and how to conceal it if you really want to (but why would you?)
Intensive Subject Geeking (product and process reviews): get experts to do this! People who totally care!
Preserving your comic collection (ack, help)
Cord strain & other commonly prevented mechanical failures
Before & after photos for some common household tasks, with time estimates for various levels of de-crudifying.
Identifying most-crucial household tasks.
Getting the lingering stench of burned electronics out of your home.
When to in-source and when to out-source: cleaning, cooking, repairs
Care & feeding of Roomba? & other maintaining-stuff tricks
Must-have gadgets: linkification to shops with same, product reviews of the things we've tried, links to other product reviews, price comparisons?
Decoration! Cozy up the place with artwork, plants, lighting, furniture, and all the comforts of home!
Simulation: measure twice, cut once; measure beforehand, move once. How tacky will that really look? Plan your dream home/garden/holiday light display from the comfort of your computer!
The inaccessible garbage can and other ergonomic mistakes.
Disaster preparedness! Link to

makinglight as appropriate! Shamelessly snarf links from all over! Locate your area's hazards with links to niftykeen websites like the Alaska Volcano Observatory, that one California wildfires website, etc.
Obligatory Link to the Geek Social Fallacies thinger. Just on general principle.
Dating & Mating. OKCupid & showers. With soap. Is there such thing as the geek kama sutra? Where the hell did the Star Wars walker kama sutra get to? Stinkitude Quiz. (stinkitude???) Links to Grooming 101 sites for males, females, general, interview, and courtship. Pr0n. (Kittenhate link?) Balance family-friendly with Genuine Geek Interest. Nerd Porn Auteur a must. Sex 101 link a must. Savage Love? Why that poster with the scantily-clad anime chick might be tacky and that completely-nude (but for some well-placed weaponry) photo of Claudia Christian, the one in the nice frame, is actually of some artistic merit. (Speaking of which, does anyone know where I can find that one? Shawn had it a million years ago and it was really tasty.)
Non-Technical Family & Friends. The "No, Dad, I will not do tech support on your god damn computer" shirt.
Furry- and 'kin-friendly/focused topics. (??? no clue here. Other staff will have to fill in.)

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Ooooooh! I want to read it!

It is plotted to be a website. I am thinking website first and then book second.

Agreed.

Nutrition 101 (link?)
basic recipes & staples to have on hand.
Reviews of cookbooks.
Crockpots.
Computer-chair snacking & how to improve it.
Kitchen science links.

Crockpots and their many uses.

Computer-chair snacking & how to improve it.
Disaster recovery here as well. Spray air is your friend.

*nods*

And in the recipe thing, I know there are a few recipe disaster recovery sites, things on how to salvage too salty/burned/etc.; linkage.

Forums.
Search.
Feedback, contact, about-the-contributors.
Link soup. (subdivision of blog)
Site map.
Blog.
General sections.
Featured sections.
Advertisers (webcomics, Google related stuff, geek shops).
Put the Google Related Stuff on the forums and the blog, because those will be dynamic. Put webcomics in the Entertainment sections. J-list?
hot & shiny geek living section with Geek Pads featured? who the hell do we know who has a damn cool Geek Pad?

Damn cool Geek Pad?

c4andsillyputty probably wins that, but I haven't talked to him in ages.

Am thinking that after we get the basics up (hi, this is housekeeping and seriously it won't bite you) we can branch out into "attraction" articles, but I want for the basics to stock up first.

Like, dunno, a few weeks of preparation/construction and then a steady addition of new things.

I agree. Start with the basics, branch out later.

Though at least for me, many of "the basics" are going to be "whatever the fuck I think of", and may not be dreadfully basic to anyone else.

Isn't that they way we both work, though?

Well, yeah, but between the two of us, Brendan (

onyxrising), and the things Darkside's mother complains about, it should be fairly comprehensive...

I should say so.

And Brendan is a chef by training and preference.

Entertainment equipment.
Entertainment media -- movies, shows, music (TMBG a must, and who are the other up and coming geek bands? MC Chris, who else?)
Too ambitious. Link to a good ten/twenty geek entertainment/review sites because they can stay fresh and it's a full-time job to look after that. Make notes about why each site is included. Poke them biweekly to make sure they're still fresh. If one loses freshitude, move them to the bottom of the list (make a "previously featured sites" page?) and scout out a new one to take the place.
Include an "entertainment" tag on the blog; link to said tag from the entertainment page (include as sidebar? y/n, technical spifferonificationiod stuff. (yes, we're getting exhausted here.))

Overloading your wardrobe
--startup, gradual upgrade path, maintaining, obsolescence

OH hells yes! When do we start?

I think rather than write it all, we need to take article submissions. Seriously

Welllllll...

wibbble and

elance are starting up web hosting likeattheendofthemonth...

<azzgrin>

... and who do we go to for article submissions?

Other geeks of course. Get the main site up and pimp it out. Mention that we can take submissions and then look them over thoroughly before acting on anything. Hmm...

I dunno. I'm just pulling things out of my ass. I have infectious brain weasels today.

A standard format for submissions on the site, standard terms (eep, we're publication!), contact format, and general guidelines for things likelier to get accepted.

a) Must be the work of the submitting author(s) (don't plagiarize) and they must have the legal ability to publish it on a website
b) Spelling right == good. Spelling bad == bad. Commonly understood Geek English is acceptable, though over1337ifying the language can get bounced.
c) We reserve the right to edit it before posting.
d) We will post it with credit to you at whatever reasonable contact information you ask for us to give. (Skanky McBritneyzaho is not an acceptable pen name. Even if the editors agree.)
e) We're not handing out cash at this point, but fame and noteriety are awesome things, and should we ever turn a profit off the website the authors are the first ones who are going to feel the love, in whatever format we decide "the love" should take.
f) Should we consider your article for inclusion in an actual published book, we will totally negotiate that separately.

(One of the sources that initially suggests itself to me for articles on topic of "things normal people wish that your standard-issue geekboy would learn", at least topics and rants ... mothers of geekboys still living at home.

And gosh, I might just know one of those. ;)

I know at least five.

What does that say about us?

That it's a niche that really needs filling?

Oh. Um. Yeah, that says that geeks tend to have a longer childhood-cycle than mainstream adults, huh.

And that could be a whole *series* of articles -- two, actually. Life in the Basement and Moving Out of Mom's.

Also, for the culinary section, a friend sent this my way:

http://www.vitamaker.com/javafit-complete.html

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