prog: (tom)
All LLC-creation paperwork filed, and pound of flesh paid. (And I'm not convinced I'm done yet; the state can basically charge whenever they want for however much they want, like the completely unexplained $20 "expedited service fee" that attached itself to the base $500 filing fee. Man, I hate these guys.) Now I guess I just wait for a response.

I guess in the interim I could start thinking about what else I want to accomplish this month besides filling in paperwork and writing painful checks.



Andy Looney sold a single friggin Magic card for $519 [eBay link will die in a few days]. And that's just one of a bunch of cards he's been selling, one by one, for months. I can't believe I let my whole collection go four years ago for $100 or something, and it had some beauts in it. (Shivan dragon, sigh.) I guess I needed the money then, but... if I had known that I could peel 'em off one at a time just a few years later to help fund my own startup? Man. Good for Andy & Looney Labs, though.

Circle JJ

Jan. 12th, 2002 11:23 pm
prog: (Default)
Attended a poker night at Joe's house. I figured I'd show up just to be social, and maybe mess things up by bringing my copy of Cheapass Games' 'Unexploded Cow', a fine gambling game in its own right. But, after some needling, I bought a dollar's worth of chips, and lost it in three or four hands, along with fifty cents that Joe lent me. My first gambling debt! You all can now say that you were there when prog's downward spiral began. Cut to montage of prog stumbling down a dark street with neon signs, martini glasses, roulette wheels, etc. passing over his shoulder. And we never did play the Cow game.

I was turned off to gambling-for-keeps, even with weenie stakes, early in my career as a gamer, when, in 1994, a friend politely declined to give me back the White Knight card I lost to him as a Magic: The Gathering ante. How uncool, I thought to myself, and never played that way again. (I'd stop playing Magic altogether after a year, anyway, but for different reasons.)

The reason I showed up at all (sacrificing precious BookTime) involved the fact that Joe dangled before my widdle nose the fact that local Perl hackers of high reknown would attend. Since I was thinking earlier today about how conversation I've had with other hackers, even (maybe especially) informal and off-topic ones, have helped me a lot in my book-revision mission so far, I figured The Book would thank me for it. And also I was sick of working on the thing today.

So, I met a bunch of people whose names I won't drop because I hate to sound like I'm name-dropping even though probably nobody who reads this would recognize any of them. (This is a good reason to blog on my home site. So I can not-namedrop where namedropping would matter. Shooah.) But, it was all verra nice. I hit it off with everyone, as is my wont with most people of the non-(insane/boring) persuasion, did in fact talk about the book, and, of course, handed out summore of my silly non-business cards.

Speaking of: I asked Andy today what it takes to make a corporation. From his description, it sounds a lot like registering a domain: confirm that no corporation with this name already exists, pay some lawyer $50, badda-bing, there's your Inc. Now you can do whatever you want with this. Like building a business around it. Or you can just hold onto it and do nothing except have fun making vague plans. Since I'm already doing exactly this with 3 or 4 domain names, why not add a corporation name to the mix? Seriously.

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