The hospital here has an annual health fair called Kids’ Day, something attended by about 800+ kids and their families. There are interesting exhibits, lots of information from health vendors, and the kids can get their hearing and vision checked, as well as puppy shots. Given the rural setting, odds are pretty good that this […]
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Very, VERY busy.
Published by November 27th, 2007 in General Foolishness and Advertising Matters. 0 CommentsGood golly. So many new things to share. The Mac Mini is performing magnificently, which is great, but sheesh, I’ve been heavily at it since it arrived (in time for my Big Four-Oh, FWIW).
Graphics and — yes — video will follow soon. But not now. It’s all Top Secret™.
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Countdown to Mac 3: Now.
Published by November 17th, 2007 in General Foolishness and Advertising Matters. 0 CommentsI am pretty stoked right now. I just learned that my freshy-ordered Mac Mini is about to ship.
So TF what, right?
Well, I’ve been staggering along here with an iBook, a 600 MHz machine with 640 MB RAM,* for longer than I care to admit. Well, actually, I bought it new, and you can do the […]
Some Things are Better Without the Kids
Published by October 30th, 2007 in Advertising Matters and Dot and Lionel. 1 CommentOur hospital is the largest private employer in the county with a staff of around 1300. That’s a lot of people — and a lot of families.
Each year we have a supervised gathering of staff kids so the adults can spend some time doing Christmas gift shopping. There are games, treats and so on, and […]
The SPucker: A Product I Really Wish Someone would Invent
Published by October 26th, 2007 in General Foolishness, One Thousand Words and Advertising Matters. 1 CommentBut it’s genuinely not possible. After you’ve read some of the mock ad copy and checked out the PDF of the “advertisement” flyer,1 I think you’ll agree that it’s tragic no such device will ever exist.
Spam Got you Down?
In 2006, 17 exabytes of junk emails and commercial spambot blog comments were transferred in the United […]
The Interesting Interaction of Vision and Language
Published by August 10th, 2007 in Huh., One Thousand Words and Advertising Matters. 0 CommentsRecently there was a progressive open house at the Medical Professional Center, a more or less satellite facility to the hospital here where physicians have private practices. The idea was that, in order to publicize a half dozen recently-arrived physicians, there would be a sort of food scavenger hunt from office to office.
Beginning with beverages, […]
I Hate Burger King.
Published by June 15th, 2007 in General Foolishness and Advertising Matters. 4 CommentsNot because they’re just behind McFuckwit’s for nationally-artery-choking success.
Goddamn it, they did this commercial — and I just love the hell out of the music.
The creepy, capering guy in the fiberglass mask I can do without — but damn, that’s some good fingerwork on that banjo. No burger joint in the world has a right […]
Sense … or Sensibility
Published by May 2nd, 2007 in You Must be F***ing Kidding, Reality Trumps 'God', One Thousand Words and Advertising Matters. 0 CommentsContrast these two images and ask yourself about the value of intellect and rationalism versus “gut” feeling.
The first is an editorial cartoon. The second is another, of a different kind. Both come from My [Confined] Space.
That’s Einstein, bottom center, in the latter image.
Which seems more believable?
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Dogs Need Weekends, Too
Published by March 30th, 2007 in You Must be F***ing Kidding and Advertising Matters. 8 Comments“Discover Boating” has an ad that just plain set me off. It’s full of images of dogs being cute on boats, with syrupy strings accompanying.
The self-involvement and arrogance required to think this commercial is in any way appealing is simply stunning; the suggestion that dogs somehow deserve to go for boat rides is transcendentally obnoxious. […]
If Van Gogh had Lived Today
Published by February 23rd, 2007 in General Foolishness, One Thousand Words and Advertising Matters. 2 CommentsA thousand-word post.
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What the Hell is Wrong with Boston?
Published by February 1st, 2007 in You Must be F***ing Kidding and Advertising Matters. 5 CommentsSeriously, I mean it — what the hell is wrong with the entire damned city?
You shut down your expressways and subways because of electronic LED signs that have been in place for weeks — and then arrest and charge the two employees of Cartoon Network who put them there?
Here’s a particularly useful comment from a […]
Naked Brothers Band: A Bizarre Post, and a Cautionary Tale
Published by January 22nd, 2007 in General Foolishness and Advertising Matters. 1 Comment[The lack of fold on this is deliberate; it’s more or less front page news.]
I never intended my initial comment on Nick’s show to garner the reaction it did, but I think what capped it all was this.
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Name: A B | E-mail: c@d.com
1I love your Band so mutch I HVE MY OWN BAND […]
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