Our Newest Neatoramanaut: Say Hello to Baby Georgia!

Posted by Alex in Neatorama Only on August 21, 2009 at 12:40 am

Hello everybody – it’s my pleasure to introduce to you the newest Neatoramanaut in the family. Say hello to baby Georgia, who was born just a few days ago. No, no styling gel was involved in the ‘do above – Georgie was born with a Mohawk (Fauxhawk? Kids today!).

It certainly has been a very busy past couple of weeks – my postings on the blog have virtually stopped (and will probably remain so for the foreseeable future) – and this is the very adorable reason.

Though Georgia is our third child, and I now know some hard-learned lessons about diapers, spit ups, and 3 AM feedings, my wife and I welcome any parenting advice. In the meantime, I’d like to thank my parents who traveled a great distance to come and help us out, fellow Neatorama authors who picked up the slack in postings and everybody else who called or dropped in to say hello.

 
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What Is It? Game 100: Win a Road Mice Computer Mouse!

Posted by Alex in What Is It on June 11, 2009 at 7:51 am

Today’s collaboration with What is it? blog is very special for us. Since our very first What is it? game in November 2006, I’ve always wondered when we would reach this milestone: our 100th game. Well, here it is!

To celebrate this milestone, we have a nifty prize:

The first person who guessed right will win this awesome Black Camaro Road Mice Wireless Mouse from the Neatorama Online Shop. If no one gets it right, then the funniest guess will win it instead.

This sporty mouse is the perfect for car lovers. If you don’t win, you can still "cruise the web in style" with the Road Mice Wireless Computer Mouse by buying one from our online shop. As always, your purchase helps support the blog.

Contest rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section. Please post no URL or web links – doing so will forfeit your entry (be kind and let others play!) One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many guesses as you’d like.

More clues at the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Update 6/13/09 – The answer is: A Copenhagen snuff can opener, used for cutting the paper seal on the can. Congratulations to attorneyadrian who got it right first!

 
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Neatorama Post No. 20,000!

Posted by Alex in Neatorama Only on May 7, 2009 at 2:20 am

I’ve been waiting for this post since our last one numbered 12,345 back in January 2008. It took us a a little bit over a year to post the remaining 7,655 posts reach 20,000 (that’s an average of 17 posts a day!).

I’d like to thank all of Neatorama’s authors, Upcoming Queue submitters, shop customers, and of course, all of you readers who make it all worthwhile!

 
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Mystery Sale Update: Hurry, Get Yours Today Before It's Gone!

Posted by Alex in Neatorama Only on May 6, 2009 at 2:44 pm

A quick update about the Mystery Sale: Thank you to everyone who has participated! Your purchase helped a great deal to support the blog.

As many of you know, right after we announced the Mystery Sale yesterday, our servers crashed because of the traffic. While it was a painful experience, this elucidated a weakness in the way we set up the servers which I didn’t realize before. We’ve taken steps to solve the problem (which, of course, involves more and more hardware).

Looking back, we’ve had many of these growing pains – Neato started on a shared hosting platform in 2005 (which cost a few bucks a month). Since then, we’ve had to move to ever larger, more complicated and thus more expensive hosting platforms. Instead of fretting over outages and meltdowns, I choose to view them as milestones in the growth of the blog (and the shop too, now).

All this is because and for you, dear Neatoramanauts! So from all of us here on Neatorama, thank you! We couldn’t have made it this far without the blog’s loyal readers (and hopefully, loyal customers – or soon-to-be one – of the Neatorama Online Shop). I hope you will help spread words about the blog by telling your friends and family about it.

Because of the interruption, I’m extending the Mystery Sale a little while longer – if you haven’t gotten yours, there’s still time. Don’t miss out: Link [Update 5/6/09 - Time's Up! Thank you for all of you who participated in this Mystery Sale! For those who missed it, maybe next time!]

 
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Cool Optical Illusions

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on August 9, 2005 at 4:51 pm

Optical Illusion A very, very cool collections of optical illusions – wait, it may just be you going crazy…

Be sure to check out the rotating face mask, the Thatcher Illusion, and the Face in the Bean. Link
 
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