JoDee: I'm not a geek.
Me: Uh huh. Which would you rather do: take a cruise in the Bahamas, or
make an important discovery regarding variable star clusters.
JoDee: Shut up.
The new startup paradigm.
Maybe I should start up the post-startup, to get us back to a simpler time of wealth redistribution for good ideas. We could call it the Holistic Organic Leveraging Distribution, or HOLD-UP, where interested parties can go to angel investers and say, quite pointedly "gimme your money, this is a …
read moreCancel vs. Inactive
Apparently there's a certain pre-paid phone company that doesn't quite understand the difference between an inactive phone vs. canceling an account:
How do I cancel my account? It is not one of the options on your phone menu. It is not apparent how to get to a live human being …
Online content and advertising: cut out the middle man
Had a thought that either marks the moment that my soul has finally been eaten away, or is a stroke of genius. Maybe it's a little of both.
Currently services like Hulu (and to a certain extent most other "free" content providers) trade you the content you want to watch …
read moreSpiders and centipedes: the dichotomy
Interesting to see the dichotomy between how we deal with insects in this house:
This morning, a spider was crawling up the wall. I dutifully got out our special trap for such occasions (a glass candle jar that smells like a melon blew up in it) and carefully moved it …
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