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Lofty Pursuits Athletic Club proto design

I have a news crew coming in at 7am tomorrow, so I woke up at 5 today so I'd be better able to deal with an early morning tomorrow. I spent a but of time working on a new shirt.

My wife sent ...

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Best email ever

I know I read this on this podcast. But I thought you'd like to see it for yourself it just put a smile on my face. Sometimes you measure success from the feedback of experts.

-Greg

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#106 letter from Smithfield Ham - Rare flavors of Christmas

Greg reads a letter from a fan who's an expert in Ham, talks about the flavors of Christmas, and talks about marketing and how a space defines a business.

I guess just another week at Lofty P...

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#105 statues - candy - monocles - letters

Greg talks about a statue he's modifying, gets interrupted by Darwin the PodCat, talks about instagramable locations, and reads your letters. Oh he also bought a monocle.

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The flaming trombone is still in action

About 5 years ago I posted a video about installing a flame thrower in my daughters trombone (you can find it on youtube) here it is earlier today.

In case that link does not work, here it is...

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Thanksgiving Assortment

I thought you'd like to see the final candies. We started packing them today, so they may ship this week, but around the 4th or 5th is more likely.

Don't worry if they sell out, we're working...

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Dreidel candy now on-line.

Hanukkah is coming early this year, Just a few days after Thanksgiving (about the earliest it can fall, so URI thought it would be fun to make some Dreidel Image candy in the flavor of a Blueberry ...

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Update to tangerine sours and Patreon exclusivity. This will effect some bonus in the future.

We have seen that some folks have been gaming the system. They have been joining here, getting access to the codes to get the Tangerine Sours and leaving before the month is over so they won't have...

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The final thanksgiving flavors.

Someone asked me what they would be, and then we had a meeting. All but one are made, the last one will be made today if the rain lets up.

This is divided into to courses (bags)

Course ...

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Two secret links. Early ordering for the Thanksgiving Assortment and Keychains

Two secret links just for you.

Thanksgiving assortment.

In years past we've had trouble getting all the flavors we wanted into a bag. This year we are solving that by m...

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New benifit: For our $5 and up Patreons we have get to the top of the stoack

You know, sometimes we fall behind. It's the curse of making things by hand. Our shipping times right now are 1-2 weeks. Possibly a bit more. We just sent out a special code to our $5 and up Patreo...

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These arrived today.

What do you think? They are hard enamel. Yes they are a keychain. The metal is not grey, it is silver like the cans. I'm going to put them up in a few days. First to you all of course.


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#104 Technology Breaks - Sours sold out in 9 minutes - Re-making a statue for a instagramable location.

Greg talks about how everything tech related is breaking on him over the past few weeks, how the first drop of Tangerine Sours went and how he's starting an art project to rebuild a statue of summe...

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We are working on a new bonus for memebers

As we get backed up regularly, we are working on a priority shipping system with a code for Patreon member. I'm still trying to get the tech to work, so no promises until I do, but I think I can. I...

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Thanksgiving Assortment pre-order going up soon

We're doing the thanksgiving assortment a bit different. It will be a two bag assortment. It is so hard to make sure everyone gets some of each flavor, we doubling the size of the assortment and th...

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We are going to go live for at least our e-mail list

We are going to go live tomorrow for our e-mail list, which means we will get way backed up on Tangerine Sours orders. If you want to get an order in before then, now is when to do it. You will be ...

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Order link for tangerine sours

Well, our secret link kinda broke. 

It should be working again at.

http://sours.pd.net 

Sorry about that.

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Trick video up.

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#103 DOS attack - Hastings - Letters

Today Greg talks about what took the website down last week, about the new www.pd.net, about a rabbit hole he went down connecting the Battle of Hastings to the fall of the Viking period (a surpris...

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Pd.net migration update

Well we are on the new site comfortably. All of the orders on the old system were recovered by 5pm today. Today I integrated the new system into the backed, so we can do things like print postage a...

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It's been a weekend

You know, you start the weekend with great intentions. Two major projects. Migrate PD.net to a new shopping cart system, and edit a candy video that should have gone up two weeks ago.

Then th...

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Important update to last e-mail

I set a limit on how many tins it would sell of these. This is a fake limit. I want you to hit it and I want to see what it shows you, and me.

So if you get this, it will be made live again s...

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Ok, it's sort of alive. The site that is. You can order again.

The candy is not alive. Halloween is coming up, but even we would not do that.

A lot of coding later and we think we've got it up on a new server. Shopify.

I like this. I'll never have ...

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And this is the story


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Since we got a few new subscribers ...

When we go live again you guys will get the first shot. It will also let us test the new website.

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Aren't you glad you had early access.

Well it took 11 minutes after we sent an e-mail to our existing customers.

Our servers are down.

http://www.pd.net

Thank...

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#100 design - tackling problems - dealing with failure - your letters

Today Greg talks about design changes, dealing with limitations and how failure is a construct.

Coupon code for podcast sticker PODSTICK

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The Thanksgiving feast

We are starting to think about the Thanksgiving feast for 2021 You can see what we've done in the past, and no, we still have not figured out how to do turkey right.

What flavors do you assoc...

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Tangerine Sours up for ordering for Patreon Subscribers NOW!

I'm not sure how long these will be up, but we improved our packing process a lot this week while I was on vacation (It makes me think I need to go on vacation a lot more.) 

The secret l...

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I just ordered a new choking poster for the store.

Bea Arthur and unicorns. Nuff said.

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