Merry Christmas in July
The one thing I miss about working at a summer camp is the Christmas in July celebration. I still try to observe it each year.…
Landing Pages and Incorporation
A couple progress points from the past week: 1. The sowedu landing page is live at http://www.sowedu.com/. It's very skeletal now, but connects to the MailChimp listserv I'm using to send development updates. Sign up if you want to see where sowedu goes.…
Another Week in Startup Fun
This past week had a couple interesting events I want to mention here. First, my Founder Institute class pitched to about ten mentors and angel investors on Monday. It was an interesting experience. Definitely learned that it's not time to raise funds for my company. I need to…
Fireworks
The Child has his first fireworks show last night (he fell asleep too early the last two 4ths). Here is the view he had from our backyard. Sorry about the poor quality. I took this while standing on a chair with The Child on my shoulders using my phone.…
Closing the Garage Office Early Tonight
Need to get some sleep to make sure I'm awake for the annual Chellinsky Family screening of 1776 in the morning!…
Some Background
Since I plan to rejoin the blogging world after a 6-year hiatus, I thought I should reintroduce myself with a background post. Currently, I am a consultant helping the military develop or purchase new software systems. Previously, I worked for the Air Force on new space program development as a…
Econ is Done! (Part 1)
After paring the Asian Financial Crisis, Outsourcing, World Liquidity, and African Development into 11 pages, here are my even more abbreviated thoughts about these subjects. Asian Financial Crisis: This financial crisis (the one of 1997) resulted from an inability of Asian nations to convince creditors that they would make good…
XM Radio has a Christmas Channel!
I just discovered that XM Radio [http://www.xmradio.com/] has a Christmas songs channel (82). My finals suddenly became much more festive--even if they play some odd Christmas music. It must be quite the chore to gather up enough of the stuff to fill up a 24/7 broadcast…