Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in advertising, humor on May 24th, 2008
I’ve never used Old Spice and I couldn’t tell you what it smells like. Have you seen the cross-promotional Jackie Moon commercials for Old Spice?
Everybody sweats, but most people would be surprised to know that they sweat 6 liters per day. Now I’m not familiar with the metric system or any other foreign language but [...]
Posted in advertising on Apr 7th, 2008
I was meddling with FeedBurner settings early today — researching something for a customer — and wasn’t able to tell how the FeedBurner Ad Network and/or Google AdSense for Content actually appears in the feed body. Based on their advertising specs I know they’re in the feeds, but it wasn’t horribly clear from the documentation [...]
Posted in advertising, gadgets, oddities, technology, things i'd like to see on Jan 14th, 2008
Heading north on Russell Street just before Ravens stadium there’s a billboard that proclaims “Marriage works” while depicting a cheery-faced couple. What are the advertisers trying to sell here in Baltimore? A church? the institution of marriage itself? As far as I can see from the street there isn’t a sponsor listed. Lots a people [...]
Posted in advertising, software, troubleshooting, web sites on Jul 26th, 2007
I find ProcessLibrary to be incredibly useful when diagnosing Windows systems. The site — with a refreshingly clean interface despite it being an advertisement-page-disguised-as-a-tool — will tell you all about processes that you find listed in Task Manager. A quick summary of whether it is good or bad, but with details of what it does, [...]
Posted in advertising, conspiracies, web sites on Jul 5th, 2007
They came out of nowhere and now they’re everywhere. How do they have the bandwidth to support all the hotlinking? Are IPOs coming back?
The Mingle2 quizes are cute in a 1996 sort of way, but they’re hardly worth pasting cheeky HTML. Hideous text is better. To answer the handful of people who have asked [...]
Posted in advertising, food, gaming, humor, money on Jun 26th, 2007
I don’t gamble that often, so I was a bit suprised when I got a letter from the Assistant Vice President of Marketing of the Tropicana last week. Now I’m sure there’s a dozen Assistant VPs of Marketing at every major casino in Atlantic City, but this letter made me laugh.
“I’ve enclosed your latest Tropicana [...]
Posted in advertising, culture, idiots on Jun 22nd, 2007
I was flipping radio stations on the way home today and heard of HOT 99.5’s Kane Pays Your Bills promotion. The premise is simple enough; tell them why they should pay your bills and they might choose to call you and pay them.
I don’t have a problem with the promotion itself.
I have a problem with [...]
Posted in advertising, boozing, humor, in the news, oddities, television, web sites on Jun 11th, 2007
If you query “retarded wheelchair semi“, you find this jewel. A man was taken for 50mph ride when his wheelchair somehow got lodged in the front grille of a semi parked at a gas station. Neither the police nor the driver of the semi believed the initial reports from passing motorists that there was indeed [...]
Posted in advertising, site news on Jun 8th, 2007
To make my blog stick out, I decided to submit a face to Blogtimore. I do enjoy free things, you know. Then it occured to me that I had no suitable images; the only images I had came with the theme. So being the geek that I am I whipped out my (literally) dusty copy [...]
Posted in advertising, food, oddities on Jun 6th, 2007
Take a packet of Lipton’s French Onion dry soup mix and knead it into a pound of ground beef. Form the beef into patties and cook on a charcoal grill. Serve on a plain flour roll with ketchup and one or two pickles. We used to make these when I was a kid. Refreshingly different, [...]
Posted in advertising, healthcare, oddities, youth on Jun 3rd, 2007
Why it is that many of the popular prescription antidepressants may increase the risk of suicide? I’m not a doctor, but if depression is a catalyst for suicidal tendencies then shouldn’t antidepressants reduce the risk of suicide? You’d think, but now the FDA is mandating suicide warnings be placed on the labels and in the [...]
Posted in advertising, culture, food, healthcare, in the news, oddities on Jun 2nd, 2007
Driving through Severna Park last week I noticed that the 7-11 on the corner of Benfield and Jumpers Hole had removed all references to Citgo in favor of a generic 7-11 logo. I suspected that they weren’t too keen on Hugo Chavez’s behavior. It turns out I was right, although late with the news as [...]
Posted in advertising, housing, idiots, money, privacy on May 30th, 2007
“Life’s too short to clean your own house,” proclaims an ad for a cleaning company that was mailed to me. I’d argue that I don’t care enough pay someone else to clean my own house. Part of owning a home is taking care of it (or opting not to take care of it). I have [...]
Posted in advertising, plans on May 24th, 2007
I’ve been thinking about my pricing model for side work; specifically I’ve been debating offering monthly plans either in conjunction or instead of a flat hourly rate. Despite not being a fan of monthly service contracts, they make sense for the industry and potentially for me and my clients.
Posted in advertising, housing, television on Apr 4th, 2007
I just received an eight page newsletter from Behnke Nurseries. There’s something I can’t figure out. Why would a nursery send out a flyer to an entire ZIP+4 where the owners — in addition to having no more than 20 square feet of lawn — have landscaping done for them by Brickman whether they want [...]
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