Unthinkability

AGLOCO is company touting a web-based multi-level marketing scheme whereby you agree to install an Internet browser toolbar that displays some targeted ads on your computer, and they pay you for your time.  You can refer friends (affiliates) and get paid a percentage of their time.  The people at the top of the pyramid have a chance to make big bucks, and everybody wins. 

I smelled déjà vu from the git-go, but who am I to poop on new ideas?

I just got a short e-mail today from the folks at AGLOCO.

…And though there are increases in membership, the resulting revenue is not enough to support operating costs.  As a development team we are unable to continue to use our savings to fund the operations…

So, they are out of money and are looking for new investors.  That’s a shame, because some of my good friends had high hopes for some revenue from the whole AGLOGO thing.  One of my friends had over 20,000 people signed up underneath him.  That could have meant some serious cash.

Want to buy an Internet startup?  Want to buy my time machine and transport yourself back to 1999?

I hate to see talented people fail, but I enjoy seeing talented people start something new.  That’s the double-edged sword that successful people must repeatedly fall upon.  I suspect we’ll read/hear more about AGLOCO in one of their biographies after they’ve become rich and famous on a different project.  Best wishes to the AGLOCO team in their new endeavors. 

It’s a time to reconnect, relax, and reminisce, and get fat. 

It’s a time to unplug and forget about work, because the deadlines and other crap will be waiting patiently for you to return.  If working a gazillion hours over the holidays is the only way that you can meet your deadlines, my holiday wish for you is that you can find another place to work.  I’ve lived that life before, and it really drains your soul!

We stayed up last night printing, folding, and stuffing the annual holiday letter. 

Pop Quiz:  Why do we call it the “holiday letter?” Is it because:

• a) we’re waging an unholy secular war on Christmas,
  – or –
• b) we’re not sure if we’ll get it in the mail in time to call it a “Christmas Letter”?

Here’s wishing you a safe, peaceful, and happy holiday!

She hates my TV shows, and I hate her TV shows.

I understand my problem, and I also understand that there is nothing that I can do about it.  I am stuck in a quagmire of South Park vs. Cold Case, with my wife and I both on either sides of the conflict.  We have staunch beliefs in our positions. There is no real resolution in sight. 

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