Archive for October, 2008
My Chippendale Adventure
So, exactly how does one dress up as a Chippendale and keep his job (without actually being a Chippendale)?
“Sure, everyone dresses up for Halloween.””It’s a tradition in the office.”
“Last year, we grabbed a boombox and did a conga line through the cafeteria.”
You’d think I would have seen through it. I even asked several times if [...]Fishing
“Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you’ll feed him for life.
Give a man a subsidy for fishing, and you’ll have the wrong suckers on the hook for eternity.”
- Ike PigottIt’s the connections, stupid.
A couple of days ago, I noted that the UK’s Guardian went full-feed with its RSS options. Essentially, it became the first newspaper to do more than send “syndicated teasers.”
We’ve gone from “advertiser-supported ink-on-pulp” to “advertiser-supported pixels-on-screen” to “where-are-the-ads-we-paid-for on a feed”?
Why would any company sever the connection from the ads to the audience? Well, [...]Passing Trains
The following messages came in through my Twitter (and Facebook) stream within a 15-minute span Monday morning:
Laura Howe: wow! metro is really quiet this am. hardly anyone on board for a monday morning.
Rick Murray: Want proof people are driving less: Metra has added a car to this train = 250 more folks doing the green [...]Flying Saucers
“If it’s true that ‘Golf is a good walk spoiled,’ then Frisbee Golf is a good walk spoiled by hippies.”
- Ike Pigott
