Yeah, it’s been around for years, but I decided that today would be the day to render me as a South Park character on the SP-Studio site. The end result is pictured on the right.
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Month: July 2006
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Marketing Joke of the Day
A lot of nerds (myself included) believe that marketing is pretty much as the image below shows:
Click the image to see the comic on its original page.
That will have to go to Andrew Baron of Rocketboom — yes, that Rocketboom — who will be presenting at CaseCamp tonight.
(CaseCamp is another spinoff “camp” from BarCamp, which I explain in this entry. Just as DemoCamp is a monthly show-and-tell where local techies demonstrate their current projects in front of a group of their peers, CaseCamp is the same sort of thing, except for marketers.)
This promises to be interesting. I wonder which tack Andrew will take: explaining his side of the story, or explaining how he’s not going to end up as the Andrew Ridgely of video blogging?
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Questions of the Day
Yahoo! Answers is one of those sites where you can post a question and other users will provide their own answers. I’m aware of two celebrities who have currently active questions:
- Bono: What can we do to make poverty history?
- Dr. Stephen Hawking: How can the human race survive the next hundred years?
The prize for “Answer of the Day” may have to go to a troll going by the name of crazy s who replied to Bono’s question with:
Hey you all. DOnt you feel privileged being here? First comes Al Gore and then Bill Clinton and now Bono is asking a question. These people are millionaires being paid by all of us from our tax dollars to do their job. If we are going to answer the questions and they implement them, look who is the beneficiary. We became a little more poor sitting here for free giving away our ideas and they earn millions. Strange but true. THis is the business to be in. One more poor person speaks out.
Somehow, I don’t think a half-baked idea posted on the internet in response to a question is worth charging money. If that were the case, at nearly 5000 entries on this blog alone, I should be lighting cigars with flaming $100 bills and eating lobsters stuffed with tacos every night. [75K MP3]
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TV Show Title of the Day
I didn’t know that the late Aaron Spelling was the executive producer of a show called My Daddy Can Lick Your Daddy. Ewwwwwww.
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Book Title of the Day
One of my friends from Crazy Go Nuts University, Stacy Dillon, is now a teacher in New York City and does book reviews on her blog, Booktopia. She’s recently started a new blog in which she reviews books for the tween set (that’s ages 9 through 12) called Welcome to My Tweendom.
One of the books she recently reviewed had a title that made me laugh out loud: You are SO not Invited to my Bat Mitzvah!
(I see an opportunity to rip off this title and write books like You are SO not Going on my Blogroll or You are SO not Getting in on My IPO.)
Maybe I’ll buy it for Wendy for some airport reading. We’re booked for at least three flights in the next six months.
- I couldn’t stay for the all of Damian Conway’s presentation, Fun with Dead Languages, but I did catch the first hour, and it was both enlightening a hilarious. With detours into Latin, fish pricing, Toronto’s standing compared to other North American cities and that strange subculture of men who dress up as Lara Croft, he covered his evolution as a programmer by way of coding in “dead” languages such as Lisp, PostScript and C++. Well, they’re dead to him, anyway.
- I must admit that while I’ve heard of the video blog Rocketboom, I’ve never watched a single one of their videos. As a result, I have only a vague idea of what the hell all the hoo-hah about Amanda Congdon’s departure is all about. Judging by the stories piling up in my aggregator, it’s a topic of interest to a lot of folks, and since I’m paid in part to be in the know about this sort of thing, I guess I’d better go give it a look-see.
- Marc Weisblott’s Toronto-focused blog Paved has ceased operations, but not before featuring Yours Truly in a parody of Weekly Scoop magazine, along with other notorious Accordion City bloggers Antonia Zerbisias, Maria Davo and Warren Kinsella.
- If you’ve been drinking Steam Whistle beer and haven’t returned your bottles, do so now! There’s a bottle shortage!
- It’s been a while since I posted the entry titled The Girls from Ipanema are Not Impressed, but someone stumbled into it very recently and posted a lengthy and interesting comment — go check it out. I repeat my battle-cry from the article: “More Astrid Gilberto! Less Cathy!”