Mind the Gap
Posted on April 10, 2008 - Filed Under
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WikipediaDiscover credit cards give cash back, a penny on each dollar spent. When you seek redemption, Discover offers you merchandise instead of cash. $25 of corporate America’s wares for $20 earned, now that is some glorious redemption.
I chose the Gap, because one is near my office. This most recent visit notwithstanding, I [...]
If It Don’t Make Dollars, It Don’t Make Sense
Posted on April 2, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentGreat Questions of Our Time, Volume One: “Can you make money in Portland, Ore.? It’s a cool city, it’s got lots of hipsters, but can you make money?“
Read More..>>Grand Central
Posted on February 6, 2008 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentEvery night, the last bit of terrestrial Manhattan I see is Grand Central Station, and I do not surface again until I’m looking down onto my home in Brooklyn. It serving as my wormhole, then, I was curious enough to watch the American Experience episode on its construction this week.
It also has to do [...]
Peter, Paul
Posted on January 24, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentPenny Wise
Dollar Dumb
50/Kanye alternative
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentGot some money burning a hole and can’t (don’t want to) decide between Kanye/50? Jay of hiphopmusic.com has some alternatives:
Read More..>>money under the bridge
Posted on August 2, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentMy sister (a civil engineer in Omaha), sent me this email today. True to my blogging roots, I’ve reposted it here without permission or comment. — Tito
Greetings… I’m in a ranting mood today - be forewarned! :)
In case you’re looking for non-network news info on the nation’s bridges… This is the website for [...]
the labor is free…
Posted on August 1, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commentbut the ez-cheez cost money
oh yeah
Gay Bomb - $7,500,000
Posted on June 12, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe US Gov’t reportedly spent 7.5 million dollars trying to develop a gay bomb, proposed by the US Air Force in 1994, that would include a two pronged attack on enemy soldiers:
Include a chemical to make them gay.
Include an aphrodisiac so they would drop their arms & pants.
On the one hand, I have to give [...]
Read More..>>Synergy Paradigm (file under: Ad Wizards)
Posted on June 5, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentVia FJM: “Log on to ESPN.com and search ‘Excedrin’ to answer additional trivia questions.”
Read More..>>Iconic?
Posted on May 24, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThus spake the Associate Press (at ESPN.com) [emphasis mine].
NEW YORK — The Upper Deck Co. has made a pitch to buy The Topps Co., a bid that would join two iconic baseball card makers that have sold sports memorabilia to generations of fans young and old.
And if you trust wikipedia:
Upper Deck Company, LLC (colloquially as [...]
One Billion Dollars
Posted on March 13, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe numbers are in: One Billion dollars is how much it costs to keep America safe. And the only way to do it is to break our TVs. Oh well, guess it’s time to be a patriot and buy a $5,000 HDTV. It’s for the children:
Congress set the deadline several years ago in an effort [...]
with crosses made of pipes and planks
Posted on March 8, 2007 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentI may have to swing by: “Christian graffiti artists and hip-hop evangelists will perform.”.
Read More..>>No word on pork bellies
Posted on February 21, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“One ounce, which can bless 250 people, typically sells for $3.50.”
Read More..>>Devil Town Coverama
Posted on January 2, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe Houston Chronicle reports that Friday Night Lights producers wanted to use Bright Eyes’ cover of Daniel Johnston’s Devil Town for an upcoming episode. Since Conor Oberst apparently doesn’t license his performances for television shows or advertisements, they hired another guy to cover Bright Eyes’ cover. While you wait for the inevitable conclusion1 to these [...]
Read More..>>Then I infer the urine smell on the bus is agreeable
Posted on December 5, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIxnay on the MUNI Smell-vertising:
The gimmick was part of the California Milk Processor Board’s “Got Milk?” campaign. The idea was that once people got a whiff of chocolate chip cookies, they’d hanker for a glass of milk.
After The Chronicle ran a story on the promotion last week, advocates for people who are sensitive to scents [...]
Ad Wizards
Posted on October 27, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentFrom today’s Sports Guy column:
George in Chicago: “What is your problem with the ‘This is Our Country‘ Chevy truck ads? Whoever thought that Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, the Vietnam War, Watergate, western wildfires, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11 should be bunched together to sell a truck is a genius! When Chevy opens a new ad [...]
Taking Sides
Posted on October 19, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentOn the one hand, a cocksure Mark Cuban:
Music videos are just commercials for the sale of CDs ? Right? Wrong. That notion is “so last century” to paraphrase some commentators these days. The days of Music Video as commercial ended when Ipod added video.
On the other hand:
Saddle Creek Records exec Robb Nansel likes YouTube. “It [...]
M. Ward on Cadillac Ad
Posted on October 4, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentJust caught M. Ward’s great “Here Comes The Sun Again” on a Cadillac SUV ad. As you were.
Read More..>>Sports Guy Hit-n-Run
Posted on September 1, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentTwo things jumped out from Bill Simmons’ summer recommendations:
1. He alerts us to “Amazon Prime” in which for $80/year, supposedly you can get anything you order shipped second day air, with no minimum order price. My question: Does this include Fried Chicken?. NOTE: A quick google shows “The Perils of Amazon Prime” at the O’Reilly [...]
In Defense of Geeks
Posted on August 9, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentJoel Spolsky to Travelers Insurance - don’t fuck with the geeks.
I’m sorry, Travelers, maybe the current Bush presidency has given you the idea that it’s ok to make fun of the scientists, inventors, researchers and programmers who are creating the future, finding cures for your diseases, building the spreadsheets you use to figure out how [...]