Category Archives: Story Time with Ray

August 2, 2011 · 9:17 pm

New Vids, Kickstarter, ShmimCast & Noticing a Slowdown

Hello friends, followers, lurkers and stalkers! August 2nd marks the day that I publicly state that I’m going to get back to daily posting. For what it’s worth.

This is mostly selfish. I’ve noticed that since my blogging has gotten lackadaisical I have had a significant dropoff in readers. That’s no good! I like you guys! I look forward to your comments, messages and Tweets so I clearly need to maintain my side of the deal better. I also want to let you know that not ALL my posting will be Shameless Self Promotion and Plugs. There will still be SOME, but I’ll be getting back to what this blog was developed for – writing practice.

But let’s get the plugs and stuff out of the way.

New Story Time with Ray! He’s writin’ poems!

The Kickstarter Campaign! We are making The Cheerleaders Must Die! and we need your help.

The Cheerleaders Must Die! Official Fan Page. Like it!

OK, there we go. Next up!

I have been learning, against my will, how to code websites. It’s like math class in junior high all over again. Except harder.

The coding itself isn’t too bad, it’s logical and as long as you pay attention it’s hard to make any real mistakes, but navigating the different control panels between different companies – especially those where the HELP CHAT IS NOT WORKING – is frustrating, aggravating and, especially for me, momentum killing. So far, as long as I can find the section I need to work on, I’ve been doing alright. I’ve had a great deal of help from friends Scott Sanford, computer genius, and Amy Dallen, a cy-curious genius (get it? CY-curious?! like CYBER-curious?!?! I KILL me!) without who I would be treading the computer equivalent of water. Still stuck on a couple key things – my CurtisAndersen.com email still isn’t redirecting correctly (sorry if you’ve tried to send mail there) and our main domain for TCMD! isn’t resolving – but they are getting worked on as I write this.

I should let you know that I’ve been away from this blog for a while. I’ve lost my writing momentum and this is stream of consciousnesses writing to try and get back on track. Not sure that it’s working.

Have you listened to my latest episode of The Shmimcast? It’s gotten some very positive reviews and I think it’s not too bad. totally worth a listen!

I surrender. Here’s a picture of me with a muppet:

See you tomorrow!

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June 30, 2011 · 6:00 pm

Moving and Posting and Frustrations with Blogger

Man, oh man I’m a little torqued at Blogger right now.  At least as far as the Wiggy blog is concerned.  If you click the link then you’ll notice that I’ve pointed to the WVS Prod. page because right now I can’t even log onto the Wiggy Blog!  It keeps giving me a 505 message?! WTF?!?!  Needless to say I haven’t posted any new blogs over there for the last two days, but hopefully that will be fixed soon.  I actually have a catch-up blog written and waiting to be posted as soon as it is back up.

On a different note I’m going to start using my Facebook Fan Page more often so I hope you’ll pop over there and “Like” it if you haven’t already.  Seriously, I know it just seems like a shameless plug site, but at the end of summer it will be my primary page.  Word.

To wrap up here are this week’s Wiggy Webs videos!  Subscribe HERE and watch below!

See you tomorrow!

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June 28, 2011 · 6:00 pm

Workout, Water & Ray

I started my new workout on Monday (which is today as I’m writing but yesterday when this posts) which excludes the gym (I just don’t make the time to make the 1.5 mile trip) and takes away all the excuses that I manage to make for myself.  I really enjoyed it!  Frankie is my cardio and then I use body resistance (push-ups, bicycle crunches and I’m going to add pull-ups and chin-ups) for all the muscle stuff.  I never had a desire to be a  “buff guy” and my body type isn’t one where “buff guy” was going to happen, but I am definitely growing a gut (thanks early 30’s!) and I don’t like that.  I’ll let you know how it’s going.

I’ve been really dry the last few days.  Between the heat an running the A/C I’ve had a decent thirst and I’m drinkin’ water…

I really thought I was gonna’ take that somewhere.  In my brain I had a train of thought about drinking water that made sense to write but then I wrote it and it boiled down to “I was thirsty so I had water.”  That is not interesting.  It is anti-climatic and disappointing though.

So, to finish this up I’ve got the new “Story Time with Ray” video. Enjoy!

See you tomorrow!

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June 21, 2011 · 6:00 pm

What?!?! Is that a new URL?!?!?

Yes!

And no.

I’ve owned CurtisAndersen.com for quite a while, but it has gone through some… developmental problems.  Some of you may remember the last debacle before I just pointed to the MySpace page – but now that MySpace is horribly irrelevant and I actually do like it when people read my blog I’m pointing the URL to my blog!

Now I should probably mention that I intend this to be a temporary fix.  I’m meeting with the web team soon to pop-up the Cheerleaders Must Die page and we have already been talking about how to manifest the new CurtisAndersen.com page.  We have a solution but I’m not a code guy so it may take a while even then, though, the primary focus will be the blog so why not start now?

In other news there’s a new “Story Time with Ray”:

Have some neat things in the pipe.  I’ll mention them when they actually become something.

See you tomorrow!

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June 13, 2011 · 10:54 pm

Monday Pluggin’ and A Hint of Things to Come…

Getting the plug out of the way first: NEW STORY TIME WITH RAY!!!!!!!

OK, so other things that get repeated in here too often: very busy, shooting stuff, working on papers for new projects, blah, blah, blah – all of this is still true, but for those of you who remember that I have a geeky side – and I know you’re out there – the geekness is back – and I’m taking pictures!

I’m not going to put it in this blog, today is about Ray, but soon (maybe tomorrow?) you’ll see the geeky underbelly and what I’ve had time to do since Rene has been doing her professional intensive at SCR.  Might have to go into that in more detail as well.

Anyway, enjoy Ray, subscribe, etc.  I’ve got to get back to work!

See you tomorrow!

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June 8, 2011 · 9:36 pm

The Plugging Continues with Toilet Paper!

So as I’m sure you’ve noticed the last few blogs have been SHAMELESS self promotion!  Just rediculous!  corporate in their frosty tone and devoid of any personality.

A good bit of today’s blog is more of that, but there’s a little bit more to it as well.  First let’s get the corporate synergy out of the way:

Thank you for helping to make “3 Minutes with Curtis & Dean” the most popular show on WiggyWebs!

As scheduled today is the next episode and the guys are talking about Toilet Paper!

Make sure you subscribe HERE and get the episodes as soon as they load and check out the other vids like “Story Time with Ray.”

We expect to have episodes of “3 Things with Rene” in production next week, so you can look forward to that.

And just to add more shameless plugging to an already shameless plug filled post please check out these links for our Twitter feeds, Facebook Fan Pages and blogs!

Seriously follow all of those, please.  I’m trying to expand my reach and I promise I won’t spam.
I wasn’t kidding, though, “3 Minutes with Curtis & Dean” is the most popular thing on WiggyWebs right now – not that it’s saying much since we’re really only a week old, but I thought it was pretty cool!  I was actually surprised because it did significantly better in its first day than “Story Time with Ray” did and I think that the “C&D” episode is particularly funny!  The only difference between the two is that I embedded the “3 Minutes…” video in the company and this blog and didn’t for “Story Time…” so I’m reposting the “Story Time…” episode in this blog to see if that helps.
Let me know what you guys think!
See you tomorrow!

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June 6, 2011 · 10:50 pm

Story Time with Ray is BACK!

Remember a long time ago when we posted Story Time with Ray and he taught you how to use the letters A & B?  Well we did and you can see it HERE.

Well the promise of the remaining letters is being delivered now with the Wiggy Webs launch and you can see the newest video HERE!

Every Monday we’ll be releasing the next Story Time so make sure to be subscribed so you never miss an episode! And if you want any advice from Ray leave your questions in the comments!

See you soon!

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June 1, 2011 · 8:10 pm

Wiggy Webs Goes Live!

That’s right, starting today Wiggy Webs is LIVE!

Above is the first of a long string of new content that will be released every week!

The current schedule is as follows:

  • Monday – Story Time with Ray – We’ll finish the alphabet and then Ray will share his words of wisdom with the children… although I don’t know that you’ll want your children watching.
  • Wednesday – 3 Minutes with Curtis & Dean – Curtis and Dean discuss a variety of topics for 3 minutes.  Not a complicated concept, as you see above, but the discussions get pretty good even though they get abruptly cut off!
  • Friday – Three Things with Rene – This show is coming later this month, but Rene is going to talk about three things she’s loving and three things she’s hating each week.

New shows will be added as we grow so don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel!

For now enjoy 3 Minutes with Curtis & Dean above and tell a friend!

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