been keeping my eye out for a new pair of shoes and I may have just found an answer. A little more than I hoped to pay, but how could you not spend the extra dough after taking a gander at these…
also, you may want to ask about the new toy I already received. the wife was clutch this week.
I’d seen this a while back but just came across it again. You aren’t human if this doesn’t get you a little…
Since it has been exactly one month and a day since I started my 5 things I decided I better finish them up. I have 6, but hey, it’s my list.
1. bought first house
2. didn’t kill lawn, yet
3. completed entire fiscal and calendar year of working for self
4. learned new technology/ideas/practices to help further my abilities
5. made several paid trips to the beach
6. flew in a Piper Cherokee to of all places, Branson
If you have any other suggestions to my list feel free to post them. Or, make your own.
Now on to this year’s list. I’ve never been much for new year’s resolutions, but I thought I would try this year to set a couple of things I’d like to accomplish. I guess it’s a resolve to do something, whatever. As I thought about it, I came up with several but am only sharing a couple. Gotta leave some element of surprise. So, this year I want to (in no particular order):
– learn Spanish (at least have a small ability to communicate in it)
– work more efficiently
– get in shape (wow, sad it’s come to that)
There are more, but 3 is plenty for now.
Thinking of changing up my theme soon. Just one of those things that gets shuffled into the ‘not enough time to do free stuff’ pile.
Came across a site today that brought the idea up of ‘5 things.’ Nothing special, just mentioned thinking back over the year and come up with 5 things you have done. I don’t have a list yet, and don’t think it necessarily has to be limited to 5, but am gonna try to think over the next few days of my ‘5 things.’
If you can name your 5, and care to share, feel free to post ’em.
Starting my list, more to come:
1. Mel and I purchased our first home
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I came across this today: http://www.adafruit.com/laser/
Pretty cool idea. People are always looking for ways to customize their stuff as their own. It’s like a tattoo for your gear. The company is giving away the business plan on how to do it for free. Kind of like the Firefox or Linux (open-source) of the business world. The only problem is the machine to do the etching is about $15-large. So, if anyone out there is in the mood to just hand out some cash, I think the cost of the machine could be re-couped relatively quickly. At $100 a laptop and $30 an ipod it wouldn’t be long before you could make it up.
150 laptops @ $100/each = $15,000
500 ipods @ $30/each = $15,000
280 ipods + 66 laptops = $15,000
You get the idea. You would just need it to catch on in the young tech industry to get it started. Like ipods and Blackberrys, it could spread pretty fast. The prices above don’t include design work/time. If someone is having you design it (think: tattoo for the artistically challenged, like myself) then you could charge more as well.
It goes way past normal engraving:
If you need me, I’ll be calling all my VC friends…