I ran into Mindy Schlegel in Shipshewana last evening and it reminded me of this photo which I’ve been meaning to blog about. Mindy was my business partner in my first business, Everblue Media, LLC, which we started while I was a senior and Mindy had just graduated from Goshen College. Mindy and I had [...]
As a kid in elementary school, all I did was read, at recess, at home, on the bus — I spent a lot of time reading. Like A LOT of time. We didn’t have a TV until I was 12 anyways, so when I wasn’t playing outside in the woods or sandbox or wherever (I [...]
I received this in an email over the weekend from a prospective customer:
Hi,
I am interested in the 37″ display, and thanks for providing the prices. Most of the other annoying website do not clearly state what they are trying to sell!
From the start, I’ve wanted to be as transparent as possible about pricing. In the [...]
We heard back from the State of Indiana’s 21st Century Fund about our $2 million grant application and they declined to fund our proposal. The reasoning, as far as I could tell, was lack of detail in our technology plan, a confusing budget structure, and an industry with “intense competition.” Although 2 out of 3 [...]
I’m not sure that this is a good thing to admit or not, as it may be a sign of my focus on the things that matter to me, but holy crap! When did the Dow go below 7,000? I knew it was going down and down, but last I remember, the Dow was around [...]
I’m in Texas for a week with my mom, 2 aunts and uncle, cousins and grandparents to build houses with Proyecto Azteca (an organization similar to Habitat for Humanity). This is a family tradition — my grandparents, who are now 82 and 80, have for about 20 years gone to Immokalee, Florida, Southern Texas, or [...]
Yesterday, I attended the Goshen Redevelopment Commission’s monthly meeting where they opened for the first time bids for the River Race project, an area of about 22 acres, right behind my house, that is currently a brownfield and abandoned warehouse but that Redevelopment would like to see developed.
There was just one bid, from All American [...]
Row one (left to right): Burl Troyer, Jeremy Stutsman, David Schrock Shenk, Gina Leichty, Gretchen Morningstar, Grace Hunsberger, Earlene Nafziger, Eric Kanagy. Row two (left to right): David Daugherty, W. Earl Taylor, Jim Kroemer, Scott Woldruff, Virgil Snyder, Janette Yoder, Allan Kauffman, Tom Stark, David Swihart, Tim Near, J.C. Schrock, Brad Weirich, Jim McKee, Julia [...]
This is the part that stuck out to me in his speech:
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted — for those who [...]
I spent some time this weekend working on a client project that required spidering the USPTO website and parsing 51,882 patent numbers out of 1,038 pages of search query results. I used Perl, of course, to do all this, my favorite language to date, especially for large text processing jobs like this one.
As I get [...]