Armen Chakmakjian's Blog, page 27

AHS/Arlington Food Pantry 5K run

Today we took part in the AHS/Arlington Food Pantry 5k Run
As the article in the link above points out, the guys in the AP history class did this as a final project to raise awareness for a local charity.  Other teams are doing other events and concerts for the rest of the month.  Although Daniel [...:]

Canobie Lake…

Visited Canobie Lake Amusement Park yesterday.  We had our 2 and their 2 cousins along with us.  It was a great day.  The kids got soaked, we enjoyed the hot sun and ended the day with a great meal at the Chateau Restaurant in Andover…

The Flume was great also:

Posted in Random Tagged: Canobie Lake, Flume [...:]

Startups and the Cloud

If you want to know what was happening minute by minute, please go search the twitter hashtag #SandCloud.  There are pictures, video and commentary there…
That being said there were some interesting things I listened to today:
1) Scott Cook’s take on creating a startup…he had an especially poignant story on having to let employees in his [...:]

A rabbit in my backyard…

So I was looking outside my window this morning and I saw the neighborhood rabbit…this is probably the 3rd sighting for me and on this overcast day, watching him chewing on tall grass in my backyard I got all philosophical.   Several thoughts popped in my head…
1) Maslow…wondering if this rabbit is self-actualizing…
2) What a life, [...:]

Second life…I’ll stick to my first life…

So over the past couple of weeks I’ve played with “Second Life“.  How did I get in there?  I saw that a LinkedIn contact had connected his LinkedIn profile and his second life profile.   So being the type that will try anything once, I signed up, downloaded the software and created my avatar.  Being a [...:]

kindle software on the ipod touch

can i give myself a big
DOH!
I just loaded the kindle software on my wife’s ipod touch.   And then loaded the kindle excerpt of my book Urtaru.
You know sometimes I have so much technology around I forget that I can do the simplest things.
Not having a kindle just yet (I’m holding out for the [...:]

Dune…

I’m in the middle of watching the 1984 Dino Di Laurentis/David Lynch version of Dune.  We rented it on the AppleTV.   Funny, after 25 years, it seems a much better movie than what I remember.  The acting is still pretty bad (William Shatner would be considering underacting in this flick)
I have to say though, that [...:]

How to lose a game but win at life…

Tonight I had the pleasure and simultaneous sadness of watching my sons at their final basketball game at the Arlington Boys’ and Girls’ Club.  My older son who played from about the time he was 7 to 13 years old, started coaching part time and then full time 2 seasons ago, and coached my other [...:]

Event: Entrepreneurship in the Age of Cloud Computing

Beside my book promotions and other random things I think about, my day job gets me involved in things like this.
Entrepreneurship in the Age of Cloud Computing
Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009
Time: 1:15 p.m to 5:15pm, then networking opportunity to 7:00pm.
Location: Bentley Adamian theatre, Bentley University, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, MA 02452 (map)
This is a great [...:]

Forgotten more than they know…yet…

So I was looking for a particular book today on my bookshelf and hidden behind a door I found my differential equations book from college. Mixing problems was my first thought.  I kinda chuckled seeing its frayed edges and pulled it off the shelf.  I took this class winter quarter sophmore year, just before all [...:]