I brought my big spoon. Let’s stir it up.

Welcome to the Grand Experiment: To test what I’ve earned making a living producing digital media.

Don’t worry: I’m no expert. And I have no opinion waiting to be ignored. The internet is littered with both. My goal is to build something from scratch. Starting at zero: no established social network, no audience, no outside interest.

Open notebook for my kids

This is my open notebook to show my work for my children to see my mistakes and misadventures. So when I have a full-throttle failure, they might learn from it (Hi kids!).

And if it works, we’ll have a bright spot or blueprint to refer to.

So what am I building?

1. The Major Secret Agency. It’s for young code breakers, cryptographers and enigmatologists who want to solve the mysteries too big for grownups to handle. I began the project 4 years ago. I have a library of print-n-go mysteries I’ve created, but only a skeleton of a site. I’ll admit, I’m happy with the CSS radial gradient I hacked together – about a year ago.

2. Folksy-Name-to-Be-Determined. A pure value play to give my prospective voice over clients a reason to return to hear my special I-don’t-know-what of talking into a microphone. The FNTBD project is all speculation. See, I’m fascinated by Etsy, Welcome to Nightvale, and those folksyartsy ‘house rules’ style posters. So my angle is to develop a Poor Richard’s Almanac, Mark Twain hybrid persona and create back stories for ‘house rules’ style posters. I’ll record and produce the brief folktales to create a catalog of audio and knockout limited-run posters to sell on Etsy. Who could resist?

It sounds less crazy in my head.

So when does the fun start?

It just did.