Armen Chakmakjian's Blog, page 17
June 10, 2011
Don't know why this appeared in my brain tonight: Lovesong Of J Alfred Prufrock- T.S. Eliot
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent [...]
June 6, 2011
Apple iCloud – the dark lining in the Silver Cloud
So I just sat through the 2 hour presentation of Lion, iOS5 and iCloud. I'm left with some mixed feelings about the whole thing. Lion will be cool, and iOS5 is starting to catch up to the feature set I have on my android phone (like a drag down notification center). iCloud feels like [...]
May 30, 2011
A recurring theme: my Kindle DX
The last two days were pretty much consumed with home maintenance and yard maintenance. I woke up late this morning, and various muscles hurt in places that I didn't think I used. So I went and set up the coffee and checked my phone for email and messages. It was a pretty quiet morning from [...]
May 29, 2011
Sweet Potato and Blueberry Pancakes Armeen…
Paul Butterfield asked me to post this recipe. 2 cups of flour 4 tsp baking powder pinch of salt cinnamon to taste 1 medium-sized sweet potato 1 cup of fresh blueberries 1.5 cups of milk 6 tbsp of butter, melted 2 eggs, separated Ok notice, this recipe has no sugar. Your favorite syrup will fix [...]
May 20, 2011
Oh Please…
This week made Bill Clinton happy and Ted Kennedy kick once. I just wish the news was a little less interesting to the easily titillated. $14 Trillion of national debt, wars or drug wars on 4 continents, and the most important thing on TV (and on the web) are Ahnold's love child, Newt getting covered [...]
May 18, 2011
My once a year coding ritual…
So the mission on the star trek sim is winding down this week and a new one starts next week. My semester at Bentley ended successfully last week, only 7 more classes to go. I've done a bunch of other writing, started my first email campaign, received a few comments on my book on goodreads [...]
May 14, 2011
Catching up…
I've been pretty busy and 2 things that I used to do I kinda pushed aside to get to this point. One of them was writing more of Book 2 in the Urtaru series. The other thing was blogging. In truth I've been micro-blogging all along, and you can see a trail of bits in [...]
May 10, 2011
I'm playing with the Hootsuite integration
I'm playing with the Hootsuite integration on Constant Contact's email marketing feature http://ow.ly/4Rzfu Filed under: Random
March 31, 2011
Yes Ladies and Gents, another contest…smaller and shorter than the others…Starts on April 1 Midnight PST
5 books in 2 weeks! If you don't know what I'm talking about, read the URTARU reviews on goodreads! Goodreads Book Giveaway Urtaru by Armen Chakmakjian Giveaway ends April 15, 2011. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win Filed under: Random
March 13, 2011
Giveaway II books are ready to mail!
Spent the evening packaging and addressing the Goodreads Urtaru Book Giveaway II prizes. 11 are going to locations in the US, the rest to Canada, Australia, Great Britain, India and Armenia. I'm pretty excited. I had this fantasy/ironical thought last night… What if book would find some following in India and take off like crazy [...]
