Armen Chakmakjian's Blog, page 14
July 1, 2012
Lots of homework to do…
So being as vacations and holidays are coming up, and I’m taking a class I’m doing a bunch of homework all at once. Lots of writing all in one weekend a quick summary of an article on how Lego is marketing to girls a case study on e-books building up a balsamiq mockup of a [...]
June 14, 2012
Down to the wire…
Or should that be stem…or core… Well in the conversion from MobileMe to iCloud, I have to move my book website www.urtaru.com before they delete my site. At the moment, I’m farting around with tumblr and for the most part I can take the straight html and css and move it over with a few [...]
June 13, 2012
So I spent the 2+ hours watching the Apple WWDC keynote…
I was very impressed. If you want to live in a world that is well defined and where the familiar metaphors show up no matter where you are, the convergence of the OSX and IOS functionality with iCloud in the middle is where you want to be. I think the favorite feature(s) for me are [...]
June 1, 2012
Star Trek Sim?
OK all you closet trekkies out there: Do you watch old Star Trek episodes and quote Bones McCoy? Do you wish you were Data? OK can’t help you. However, my character in the USS Washington B Star Trek Sim is being promoted to captain, and we are looking for new characters/writers to take part on [...]
May 13, 2012
At LSSC’12 in Boston for the next 3 days…
I’m going to be at the lean software and systems conference in Boston over the next 3 days…I might tweet about it…maybe I’ll see someone famous http://leansoftwaresystemsconferen201... Filed under: Random
March 21, 2012
AAPL: So here’s a question for you business types…
I recently read that one of the reasons that Apple stock may only be trading at 12x forward earnings is because they don’t have a model with recurring revenues. they get all their positive cash flow by acquisition. Hmmm…if what they are saying is that because apple doesn’t really sell software (or hardware) on some [...]
AAPL: So here's a question for you business types…
I recently read that one of the reasons that Apple stock may only be trading at 12x forward earnings is because they don't have a model with recurring revenues. they get all their positive cash flow by acquisition. Hmmm…if what they are saying is that because apple doesn't really sell software (or hardware) on some [...]
March 16, 2012
Urtaru – on Kindle – Free once again for a short time
I'm running another free promotion on the Kindle platform for my book. It's actually been running since yesterday and until Midnight tonight Pacific Standard Time! Free entertainment, such a deal! http://www.amazon.com/Urtaru-The-Chro... Filed under: Random
March 10, 2012
Who best represents all republicans is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma (Thanks Winston)
I thought this chart kinda funny. So the main argument that both Newt and Rick make is that it's obvious that the conservative base of the republican party would never elect Mitt, and that if you combine their polling, you see that Mr. Conservative would have 44% of the vote. And if you add [...]
February 11, 2012
Shrouded in the mysteries of time musings…The Han dynasty in Armenia
So as we approach Feb 16th this year I was preparing my yearly sunday school lecture on Vartan Mamigonian. Vartan is the legendary leader of the rebel Armenian princes who fought for their right to practice christianity and not convert to Zoroastrianism in the 4th century. The Armenians as a people converted about 100 years [...]
