1. My dad used to make custom graph paper for my brother and I so we could detail maps of the dungeons on Bard’s Tale on the ole C64.

2. diyplanner.com: I am not sure this is being updated anymore, but it sure helped me get started with a little hipster PDA, now converted to just a 3×5, paper clip bound, task list. Good PDFs of different planner sizes though.

“Shortly before leaving for bootcamp, I wrote a script for my site to check traffic and how many documents were printing by different users.

The script would output all this information into written sentences, dynamically changing the grammer based on the results. “There were X printed documents yesterday but Y today” (if today is less). Then the script ouputed these paragraphs to a pdf document in the format of a letter, using a dynamic greeting depending on when the script ran (“Good Morning”, “Good Afternoon”…).

I made a custom font based on my handwriting which the letter used, too.

After I left, my mother ran the script, printed, and mailed me the letter each week. I think I was the one at bootcamp receiving letters from myself.”