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Joppa

Since that This American Life video is gone, check out this show called joppa. More at whatisjoppa.com.

Scott and I went down around Main St letting people know we exist, and that they should totally give us money. The funny thing is, our service is actually better than other advertising services (numbers wise). We’re cheaper per inch and per impression than newspaper and television respectively. Its just a weird concept, and its a little difficult getting people to understand exactly what we do. No, we don’t just print t-shirts. We send them to people. Its advertising.

We’re also getting ready to have other people go out and start making sales in places we can’t get to. Hopefully, they’re better at selling than we are, and we’ll all come out better because of it.

This whole business idea has a lot of catch 22s. Its easier to get people to advertise on the shirts when we have a lot of subscribers, but there are only so many subscribers you can get without giving out anything. Many businesses will never advertise with us because they don’t know we exist, but if we had shirts in circulation, businesses see this opportunity, and actually consider it.

Obama’s Commencement Speech at Wesleyan

On Guard

On Guard, originally uploaded by somjuan.

I woke up this morning to see Mario sitting on my bed staring out the window. So I took this picture. He likes this perch because he can see the whole backyard.

Rugs

We cleaned a bunch of the rugs we got out of Weslyan’s dumpsters today. Turns out there is a lot of hair in rugs. But in any case, they should be ready for use in the bus, whenever we get around to that. I’ll be posting stuff about the floor plan soon. The bus will be able to sleep 8 people in beds (12 if we use the floor). The overflow folks (or really, whoever wants to) can sleep in a tent or on the roof.

Robert Krampf Rules

Robert Krampf is awesome. I’m certain I’ve had a video or two of his in my linkroll before. He does this Experiment of the Week, where he makes a video of a cool science experiment every week, and posts them online. It seems that it is primarily sent out through a mailing list, but I don’t really care for mailing lists, even if they are for interesting things (why I unsubscribed from B3TA‘s newsletter).

Today I was browsing around Blip.tv, and I noticed he uploads his videos to blip! This is great, because blip automatically generates an RSS, iTunes, and even Miro (Democracy) feed for their shows. So now I can get the Experiment of the Week in Google Reader. I’m very happy, because I love this show. If you liked Bill Nye, you’ll love Robert Krampf. He’s the science teacher you wish you had.

Hrmm

Well, I’m calling the 30 day thing. This is technically a month after my string of posts started (even if its not a month after I said I’d go for it). Life isn’t especially interesting at the moment. It hit an especially interesting spike this past weekend with all the Tour stuff going on, but now that’s going to peter down and I’ll have to take care of Landshark and where I’m going to be living next year, and other such stuff. I’ll still post pretty often, but I won’t post just for the sake of posting. I was sort of hoping it would make me post about things I usually wouldn’t, but for the most part I just half-assed it with pictures and videos and posts from the Tour blog. Whatever.

I got a 2GB microSD card for my phone. Its amazing how much of a change a $14 addition can make. Pictures will be higher resolution, videos will be longer (I can theoretically record 28 hours of video, but the battery wouldn’t last that long).
So life is good, and I’m going to bed.

1 – Beginning

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A walkthrough of the bus before we touched it, then we start to take out the seats.

Day 1 Recap

You can see the progress going from left to right. In the end, we managed to get all but five seats out. There are some other pictures up on Flickr, and we took some video of the whole process which will be up eventually.