On the Mind of Chuck Reynolds

I've moved this blog and its content over to UpChuck.us. Why? I had too many sites that were neglected so I've combined most of them and dumped the rest and put all new content over there. The post explaining all of the details on the move to upchuck is here. 

Caught news of an interesting video of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Couple of quotes to think about:

• The top 1% of income earners in USA earn 23.5% of ALL income, more than the entire bottom 50%.
• The top 1/10th of 1% of income earners earn 12¢ of every dollar
• Between 1980 and 2005, 80% of all income went to the top 1% in America.

I found out about this cool little deal that for five of your hard earned dollars you can get a guy to randomly sketch a 'Horrible Logo' for you or your brand. I saw a few funny ones come out for my friends at Forty agency so I wanted to play too.  Here's what he came up with:

Typical to get a rhino for 'rynoweb' but at least there was no web involved lol...

Get your Horrible Logo at horriblelogos.com - he also does horriblejingles.com too - some funny ones there too (like the one he did for Gangplank). Enjoy.

So let me set this up first - because this is odd. So we have a whole Architecture class from ASU spending time at Gangplank and learning about the environment and how us anchor companies use the space and what our daily lives are in the space. Their final project is on us - ya weird, but interesting because I'm wanting to see the final product they complete. I think they're redesigning the space for optimal use and probably going balls out on super expensive remodels and stuff we'll never probably implement but if anything there should be some cool concepts coming out of it.

Getting to this audio thing - one of them wanted each of us to record the 'quote' we have on the Gangplank Board / Staff page so they can use it in their project...

“I like the underlying principle of collaboration that exists at Gangplank – getting great minds together, talking and working to create better products and solutions.”

Well here it goes.

I can't say I'll be getting many voice over contracts after this but I figured it was funny to post anyways so... there ya go.

Today started off trying to find a better location to watch the Bears game with other Chicago Bears fans because the Cardinals game was on at the same time and I didn't want to watch one muted tv. We had eaten previously at Jimmy's of Chicago in the past and decided to stop by. There was a big banner outside about raffling off jerseys during the games and inside was fillin up with Chicago natives... Yup my kinda place - mi familia.

So the raffle worked like this: every item you buy you get a raffle ticket. Well both Amy and I had breakfast then a few beers each and then some lunch later on. Needless to say we had accumulated a few tickets. First quarter raffle goes down, we win a set of six Stella Artois glasses! Nice! Yeah we won that too :)

The Bears ended up winning and the final raffle was called... a moment passes and Amy screams! I'll be damned... We won a Bears jersey!! Choices were two throwback jerseys, Payton and Butkus and an orange Peppers jersey. Went OG Grid Iron style and chose the Dick Butkus jersey. I mean come on, he's one of the Greats, one of the best that ever played the game. Payton, love you too man but gotta go with the 51 on that call.

But the ultimate win here is this: The Bears won 27-20 against the Cowboys IN Dallas and for the fact that tomorrow is our 2nd Anniversary (awwwhh).

Overall it was a good Sunday. Go Bears! And Thanks again to Jimmy's of Chicago in Gilbert Az!

So I consider this done, at least to the point of I'll improve it when I get more time.  I wanted some hand-tightened things for the main board but didn't find anything great to solve that so currently going with a 6mm threaded bolt into the stock Xterra track mounts.

The sod is laid and sprinkler system going 4 times a day to keep it green and to allow it to take root.  I haven't been on it much but the dog likes crapping on it so that's good news right? lol. 

Jinx is helping me design a in-truck mountain bike mounting system. That board is temporary as I'm currently taking measurements for a 1 and 2 bike system and maybe something to hold the front wheels and seat posts I had to take off to make them fit. Need somewhere to fit the toolbox too for races. Truck is an Xterra for those of you that don't know. I am aware of some retail kits available but they're really expensive and I think I can make one more versatile anyways.

About five o'clock every day I'm home working I get Jinx laying her head on my leg every 15 minutes. Those are the start of my last hours to work until late at night because the girl comes home and gotta make dinner and do the spend time thing. Dog just don't understand man... lol.

A couple of days ago I posted about how I had an issue with a location-based reward app on the iphone called WeReward.  That post is here. Within a few hours after that post went up I got a tweet from the CEO Ted Murphy saying they saw my post and were on it and he commented on the post directly explaining that he was notified his team and that the app is still in beta and that they know they have issues and are still ironing out details.  I understand that all too well :)   So pretty quickly I got a response and an apology (not that it was needed) from the CEO - Awesome! 

Another day later I got this push notification saying I was rewarded the 504pts in game...

Hi Five! So I'm happy, they're happy they took care of a customer and evangelist and everybody wins.  Thanks WeReward. Thanks Ted and Thanks Daniel too for helping out :)

If you don't know what WeReward is and/or want to learn more - check it out here (aff link)