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Me and Noah talk about FIRING people when they start to suck…..and infect everyone else’s attitude.

I got my March 2012 Goals set out…..have you made YOURS yet?

I was going to the studio to film some more videos for the upcoming SumoBusinessBlueprintLIVE course where we try to kill people’s inner wantrepreneur….and make them REAL entrepreneurs.

I walked into a gas station nearby to buy some water….and got a BUNCH of weird looks going in.

I then realized it might freak people out when they see a brown guy wearing a shirt that says DIE!!!!

The latest AppSumo course I released was thought of by vote.

We ghetto-tested which possible courses I should make…and let the audience vote.  The #1 result:

A Course ABOUT Building A Course!

Lol….I still think that’s hilarious :-)

Basically I open up my brain on everything I know about video-course making.  And since I get easily distracted, I took 30 minutes to illustrate what this would look like:

Here’s the sales video thingy we filmed for it.  We made it in a studio with a REAL camera so it look really sharp!

Making all these courses was just kind of a fun extension of all the “experiments” on my blog that I’ve done for years.  So far they’ve been….umm….very….profitable.

So this basically shows how all the courses are made.

A course about a course… …course ….course :-)

http://www.appsumo.com/course-about-building-a-course/

Me and my brother are waiting to go to New Year’s parties….and I walked into his room and said, “Let’s see if we can make a song in 10 minutes.”

So with the stuff in his room we started going immediately:

1.) I first laid down the doumbek drumming track as Ashdin recorded it.

2.) My brother then free styled some guitar over the doumbek drumming.

3.) I then randomly started babbling some Arabic-sounding stuff into the microphone (so yes…the singing is me…no, I don’t speak any Arabic….and thank god for reverb effects!)

4.) My brother then laid down a bass track on the MIDI keyboard and mixed everything together.

TOTAL TIME TO MAKE: 10 minutes

You can listen to the quick song below….and HAVE A HAPPY 2012!!!!!

Ashdin & Nev – Made in 10 by Ashdin

Randomly browsing StumbleUpon one day I saw this little video:

“Make a $200 pen for $6″

…..I thought this was soooo cool!

As a kid who used to collect mechanical pencils in middle school…..naturally I HAD to try this.

I immediately bought some Pilot G2 Pens and Mont Blanc Pen Refills from Amazon.  The pens are super cheap, the Mont Blanc refills are $6.00/piece.  I bought two 2-packs of them.

Fast forward one week for delivery time and it was time to do some pen-surgery:

Notice how the Mont Blanc refill is eeeveerrr sssooo slligghttlly longer than the G2 refill.  This is actually long enough to make them not compatible:

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This means you get out some scissors and do a small little snip-snip.  The end piece is just soft plastic, so even cheap-o scissors will be fine:

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DONE!  Now just insert the freshly-operated-on Mont Blanc pen refill into the G2 pen and it works perfectly!

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You can even see which Mont Blanc-enstein pens you’ve modified through the casing:

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I actually waited a few weeks to post this….just to make sure the pens were actually really good….
and I gotta say……..

-Neville
:-)