SmileySteve's Blog

Last night was the mashable meet celebrating their anniversary on the rooftop bar of the Glenn hotel. The scene was great, open air above the CNN signs, with people mingling too.

I also got to meet some other entrepreneurial people with rankem, ehire.com, apartments.com and some developer friends (sam).

I didn’t know about it until I went on Twitter after dinner, and last minutely decided to go.

Last night I went to a tweetup at the Glenn Hotel, and somebody asked me for the one liner pitch of both Pardot and TAG, but

• I’m not on a sales or business development team
• I’m not looking for angel or VC funding.

While I appreciate that sales people or most CEOs need to be able to pitch their product if they are looking for investment, there is very much a category of ‘boot strapping’ and company development where, frankly, advertising isn’t needed (with the right strategy). Of course, maybe my dreams are too limited, because my TAG projects will likely never bring in a multi million dollar buyer, and that’s not really the growth strategy.

• Guy is supposed to come get my #rx7 today. The ferocious sounds it makes in the drive way make it hard to sell. #
• I am so emotionally attached to my #RX7 it still looks beautiful, even though it's 20yrs old. #bloodsweattears #
• I love watching RX-8 GT and Prototypes racing. It's on Speed right now, ~4 minutes left of the Rolex #
• Washed the new bummer today. Made the control arms shiny. Cleaned engine grease off. I feel more proud @Gomeler in reply to Gomeler #
• If all cars had mpg displays we'd see an immediate 10% reduct. in gas use. Also rise in ocd ppl hyper miling. http://twitpic.com/26pj1i #
• You can overclock old hardware cheap.In a 1.5ghz world I was pushing a cyrix 133mhz to 266mhz. RE http://bit.ly/d2oSX1 @Gomeler @mattstech #
• Wednesday, @flickson5th is playing Hot Tub Time Machine on 5th St @ dark . Going? @GoKTGo @sadpandasean @ajaimk @arball @gtryan @Bahnzai #
• The AMC 4l Straight 6 produced 190hp. A BMW 3L straight 6 produces 225hp. #
• I'm at phipps arena to watch this new inception movie #
• Got a headache during inception. About to make my own fun dream. #
• Summer sand volleyball! #
• Great place to work! Dm me. RT @david_cummings: We're hiring for sales, engineering, and also need a technical trainer. Pls rt. #
• A comma separated value (.CSV) file is a simple database / spreadsheet text file with comma delimiters. #really #
• Can't decide if I should go democrat or republican for the GA Primaries. Wish we could do both. #
• The elevator at work covers 33 floors in just under 33 seconds, down. #
• First week owning a car with valves, and I already need to replace a valve gasket. #RX7 never needed a valve gasket. #novalves #
• When I break into my engine this weekend, I'm going to make sure that I'm running ngk or bosch 4 prongs. @Gomeler #
• Manual transmissions ftw. You're too drunk to drive when you can't heal toe. I just solved a world problem. #
• Nowadays, it's seeming like futures are just absolutely ailing at prediciting the stock market. the $f earnings were supposed to boost! #
• I told myself that when I moved I'd work out more. Other than a few bike rides to l5p, I haven't worked out in the 3 weeks. #
• While driving somebody around yesterday they asked 'what kind of magic did you just do with your feet?' He drives a manual too … #
• @Gomeler If GDM keeps messing up, switch to KDM or the lighter weight options. #
• @sanjay Use a no/limited sql database like MongoDB if you're already slowing down, you need to ditch some relationships in reply to sanjay #
• @sanjay All languages should use "else if". I hate python bc of elif, perl for elsif, etc. Also, javscript requires space, others dont in reply to sanjay #
• Realizing that I don't feel liek going out on friday bc I have had no free time all week. Movie, Vote / Move, Brickstore / flick, Poker #
• I'm at rira and a girl is buying me the drinks.;) #

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• http://twitpic.com/24h9i7 watching worldcup at neighbors in va high. That goal was so close #
• HDTV Shopping. If I get a 1080p screen will the native resolution thing make 720p look worse than if I have a 720p screen? #
• http://twitpic.com/24nvxr keg had to go back to work. Surprise weekend benefits! #
• @Gomeler Gear oil smells disgusting and greasy ; engine oil smells… almost good. Don't taste and don't get it in your eye! #
• @Gomeler if you taste the different oil types, the sample size is lower in reply to Gomeler #
• #work Yay! I decided to sideline my major project to get a few easy ones out of the way. Measurable progress feels good. #
• @mattstech Do you brake or do you break; for properly indented code? RE http://bit.ly/cUM2mf #
• Wow! RT @themotleyfool http://bit.ly/9edwID 1/4 of smartphone users consume 0mb/mo data #
• Looks like #evo4g wireless sharing caps at ~50KB/sec. USB Tethering is much much faster. #
• Stocks look really positive for options expiration date. Support proven by Municipals down $MUA. #
• @rmpenguino @aceonline The number is surprising higher than expected. Apparently they never even email sync or map RE http://bit.ly/9OJGNN #
• i could officially be carless by this weekend. I've been unofficially carless since last september. #
• @Gomeler The sad thing is that my #evo4g clear beats your work 384kbit uploading in reply to Gomeler #
• #poll Thinking I should buy a new car w/ RX-7 selling; what should it be? RX-8, BMW 330i, Audi A6 T http://twtpoll.com/p8sn4a #
• @rmpenguino re: NoCar. Bike 4mi to Marta (work is at a Marta) / Carpool / Borrow car. in reply to rmpenguino #
• @jwage steviep: i miss jwage :: We miss our open source developer when we have ORM feature requests #
• @jwage An issue tracker is not the same. It's more awkward to make fun of you there. in reply to jwage #
• @sanjay The first programming I did was modifying Gorilla in basic. But really understood loops with TI-basic on the ti-80 @ 11yrs in reply to sanjay #
• Just played the most ridiculous game of ping pong ever. Each side wall hit increased pint value by 1, each back wall hit, by 2. #
• @CLEAR I need to blog since USB tethering. Consistent 4mbps+. Battery hasn't been affecting use. #
• @Bahnzai I would never wakeboard behind a boat that doesn't have a center pylon or tower. in reply to Bahnzai #
• Pro Interview Tip: Take off the Croakies, wear a suit/ #
• Working test http://bit.ly/9m3mIr #
• @pfreet Why would you buy a phone that doesn't have a front facing camera in today's time? (droidx) @keithmcgreggor #
• Who do you have your car insurance through? Leaving the parents plan. Thinking progressive? Used car worth < $7k #
• AAPL Current return rates of teh iphone 4 is 1.7% versus 6% on the 3gs. But how many more now that a recall is dismissed. #
• Braves are losing 6 to 2. At the Ted for @arball bday w @bahnzai #
• At tie red at Cobb galleria watery. Social entrepreneurship. W @jennbonnet #
• @jungledave is talking about cloud saas entrepreneurship at tie tes. 'Profitable from the day we started charging' #
• printing insurance cards through progressive is a pain! Had to boot into windows, install bloated REAL Adobe Acrobat Reader, and now printer #

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