Dear Gameloft support, My good friend Jessamy Green-Husted recently emailed Gameloft about an accidental purchase her pre-school aged son made in the game Oregon Settler. The in app purchase price was $50, which is no small amount of money. She did not approve this purchase and did not want this purchase to be made. I [...]
I’ve ranted and raved on this blog previously about how having ADD can make it hard to actually accomplish anything that’s not strictly necessary. It’s also no secret that I have entrepreneurial aspirations, but I’ve had a really hard time successfully executing on them. I have also been known to avoid doing other things that I [...]
I’m currently enrolled in Standup 101 at DSI Comedy Theater in Carrboro. As a part of a class project we need to essentially report the news in a funny manner. I decided to troll around the web for some amusing articles and write summaries in limerick form since limericks are inherently funny. A couple of [...]
I announced last week that I’m starting what I’m calling ProjectSpark! As a quick summary, ProjectSpark! is my attempt to publicly describe business ideas I’ve come up with that I think have merit. My intent is to collect feedback on the idea and, if I’m lucky, to try to build a team of partners with complementary [...]
I think I’ve finally made an important mental leap, as far as business and startups are concerned. It’s not just the idea I need, it’s the execution of the idea. So far, with the exception of Alagad, my execution on my various ideas has been less than stellar. What brought this realization on was a [...]
A bird of some sort has nested in a column on my front porch. There’s a male and female and presumably eventually some eggs. I’m not sure what breed they are, to me they’re of the Red and Brown family. They’re quite skittish so they’re hard to get a good look at. It’s funny because [...]
Note: I have updated this entry to make it a bit easier to read and to fix and add some facts I’ve learned. I would really appreciate some help finding someone named Alex who also went by the name of Jeff. He lived in or around East Lansing or Mason, Michigan about 10-15 years ago. [...]
So, my lovely wife Liz Hughes has started selling these health shake drinks by a company called Visalus. She would like me to say that she also sell vitamins and supplements, etc. Visalus an MLM gig like Pampered Chef (love it) or Tupperware (I’m ambivalent). She’s actually gotten me drinking the shakes and, against all [...]
Pardon the stream of though nature that I expect this blog post to embody. I’m pretty much failing to do useful work today. I did get some time in for one of my clients to finish up some unit tests I was writing and I worked on some details for a new project proposal. But [...]
A couple of weeks back, while trying to inspire myself, I made a rather bold goal. My goal was to publish one KickStarter project a month until one was actually funded. I’m supposed to have published my first project by Febuary 17th. Well, that’s not going to happen. Not because of inaction, but because I [...]
