Backlog
Jen has posted her travel journal from Paris, you can find the goods here: http://robspages.net/jen. I’ll update the other links littered around the site later in the week to reflect the address change. Around the same time, I should have pictures of the City of Lights posted.
At some point, I’ll set Jen’s section up with her own color-scheme - for now it looks just like this.
On to other stuff:
I had 2 ideas for additional sites… I know, the ideas are the easy part. Finishing one gets harder the longer it drags out.
The first idea I wanted to call BreakfastSerials but that name is taken for a similar but non-competing purpose. The second runner-up in the name game is BoredShorts.com but that’s a search engine hijack/domain for sale exploit at the moment. The basic idea is to get a bunch of writers together to post fictional blogs and short stories at certain intervals, sell ads for the site to pay the bills and just let it do its thing. At least thats as far I got with it before becoming jaded about the name.
The 2nd idea is more difficult. It actually involves some leg-work, sales, and the shipping of some durable-good on a set schedule. The premise is that the site acts as a broker to purchase 1 item at wholesale quantities per month based on the audience’s requests and what they have pledged to purchase (with a deposit). So say, 50 people from across the country agree that on June 30th they will purchase a Tivo Series3 from this site. 50 TiVos cost $x so the cost per person for this is $x/50 + shipping, which depending on the size of the crowd will save them a little or a lot versus the Best Buys and maybe even Costco and BJ’s of the world. Site members then vote on what next month’s offering is, and based on the number of deposits, a price is shown. Only once you place a deposit on that month’s item are you obligated to make a purchase. If a bunch more people decide to buy, the price goes down. I need a name, a crew (coders, business people, logistics team and a purchasing agent) an a healthy dose of reality before anything else.
So all that aside… The Heroes season finale was worth flying home for. The Sylar/Peter fight could have been a bit more spectacular with all their abilities flying out - but Peter survives till the next season so he can’t have that level of mastery over his powers yet or there would be no show. I’ll await season 2 with baited breath and hope its as good as the first one. A long shot, I know.
Jen and I have to watch the Lost from last week before their season ends tomorrow night. I am looking forward to their being a void of compelling TV over the summer so we are more likely to go and get to know our neighbors. Maybe I’ll complete a project or 2 (for once) that wasn’t part of my daily job. We’ve all but abandoned our World of Warcraft characters. Maybe someone will buy the accounts off of us and we can make a clean break, or maybe we’ll get sucked back in once all of our House stuff calms down
