Ridiculous Business Ventures

We walked and talked a lot, and those walks and talks led to a range of zany business ideas. None of these should be taken seriously. Most of them were from the younger traveler, occasionally enriched by the elder one. Anyone who finds one of these ideas and runs with it (heck…some of them already exist) can rest assured that they will not be hearing from our lawyers: Nitro Soda—various beers (Guinness, most notably) use nitrogen as their fizzifying gas....

How This Site Was Built

This site was very much “built,” and the source code can be seen here. The various platforms involved: Google Docs—all of the words on this site are in a Google Doc with a pretty simple structure and a diligent use of Heading 1 and Heading 2 styles. If we edit the Google Doc, the site will automatically update with the changes overnight (sure, it could uptake changes faster, but…why?) SmugMug—all of the photos are hosted on SmugMug and pulled in via the SmugMug API, so we can adjust what photos are included, as well as tweak the photos/captions/tags within SmugMug and they will automatically be reflected on the site...