Rich Sawiris over at Wheelbuilder.com a mad-scientist engineer who builds some of the finest bicycle wheels on the plant. We left our jobs at the same time to start our businesses 4 years ago. He was my first official client so I’m happy to continue working with him as he grows.
We launched the latest version of Wheelbuilder.com in December. Here’s to a successful 2009!
Todd is the newest member of Twinlab’s Team Fuel. I recently met him at a tradeshow, and worked together in the Twinlab booth. He is an up-and-coming bodybuilder. This guy is HUGE - I looked pretty scrawny next to him.
Todd is also famous for stopping a bank robbery by basically beating the snot out of the bank robber. He told the story over lunch. His version was a bit more graphic than the news story. Probably should have waited until after we were eating to hear it…
It all happened in Lynnwood when a suspected serial bank robber known as the “Old School Bandit” because of his old-school bandanna disguise tried to rob a Banner Bank.
The bodybuilder — Todd Jewell, 26, of Yakima — had just arrived at the bank on 188th Street Southwest with his wife, Shawna, 27, who was waiting to hand in her résumé….
They saw a man, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, slip on a bandanna, approach a teller and demand money. “It took a few seconds to realize what was actually happening,” Shawna Jewell said in an interview Saturday. The 6-foot, 280-pound Todd Jewell quickly sized up the robber, who appeared to be about 3 inches shorter and 100 pounds lighter. And when he didn’t see the robber holding a weapon, he ambushed him. “I realized I should have no problem throwing him around a little bit,” Jewell said. “I was basically trying to hurt him enough to get him to stop, to get him to the ground and to quit fighting.”
He succeeded, actually breaking the man’s ribs in the process when the man wouldn’t succumb.
The man was identified as Chadwick Asheim, of Seattle, and he’s suspected in nine Seattle-area bank robberies in the past two months. A warrant had been out for him for leaving a halfway house, but authorities hadn’t been able to catch him.
Read Bank Robber No Match for Body Builder
And of course I have to plug his website. Or else.
The Montana Natural History Center was another web project built using Wordpress as a CMS. While I did all the design work myself, I had lots of programming help from my friend, Josh, at Red Letters Studio. He did a great job turning Wordpress inside-out. Now the Center’s content editor can quit working in Dreamweaver and focus on just writing.
This was a big upgrade for the Center. They are now taking donations and memberships through the site. And until recently you could register your child for a science day camp, but it was such a success that they are all filled up. Lots of good functionality to promote their educational programs, community events, and teacher resources.
Velo City Cycles is a Holland based bike shop. One of the more friendlier shops you’ll find. It’s a fun place to hang out and talk and learn about bikes. It doesn’t hurt that New Holland Brewery is across the street!
I did a complete re-design of the site using Wordpress as a CMS. Check it out
My sister, Kathryn, and I have been working on this idea for a while. I’m always busy, she’s always busy, the usual excuses. We finally decided to quit talking about it and get it done.
Introducing Rock-Bear.com - A hybrid blog/product review/outdoor website with an obvious environmental tone. It started as a vehicle for Kathryn to write about all the gear she has used while hiking and working in the backcountry of Montana. Now it has three contributors and contains, or will contain, essays about gear, food, and just simply getting outdoors. It’s not a site for the hardcore adventurer. It’s about being outdoors without being outdoorsy.
We’ll see where it goes. There is no source of revenue at this point, but that’s what we’ll be working on next.