Ironick

Two Timely T-Shirts

We don't actually do what we propose -- we just propose it

It's a Small World #3897:

I was recently in Manhattan on business and took the opportunity to have dinner with our dear friends Allison Tolman and her beau Peter Cohen. In the course of our conversation, I was explaining what an IT industry analyst does for a living by referring to the now-famous (at least in the worlds of analysts and consultants) UPS commercial about the two consultants that first aired, I believe, during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

As I described the ad, Peter's smile kept getting bigger and bigger. I paused and said, "What's so funny?" Peter replied, "That's my ad." My jaw dropped to the floor. I've know Peter for years and I never knew he'd been involved with one of my all-time favorite ads. Mostly, we would talk about his creative work for Sun Microsystems, but that's a topic for another post...؟

Check out Peter's other work as well.

Would you drop 10 friends for a hamburger?

Has social software really led us to this? According to the NY Times Bits blog, nearly 234,000 facebookers were defriended by their so-called friends looking to score a free hamburger. Burger King ran a promotion on Facebook that gave someone a coupon for a free hamburger if they would drop 10 friends. Harsh but hilarious.

Facebook called a halt to the promotion because the promotion actually told the dropped friends they had been dropped...for a hamburger. Ouch! Something about privacy issues. How about just plain human cruelty issues? Can you top this one?

I would really like to me the person would came up with such a wickedly perverse marketing campaign. I think we would really hit it off.

PS I would never drop 10 Facebook friends for a mere hamburger. I'd need at least a Triple Whopper with Cheese. uhhhHHHhhrghhhuuuuHHHggrruhhhHHhh

SUPERUSELESS SUPERPOWERS

Just had to share a hilarious comic blog I just came across: SUPERUSELESS SUPERPOWERS. Here's a sample that had me laughing so hard I cried:

Here's the description:

SUPERUSELESS SUPERPOWER: In-flight flight

Being able to soar through the air still won't save you from recycled oxygen and endless stories from complete strangers. Known as the "Cabin Sparrow," this so-called power lets you fly, but only within the confines of an airplane. At least you can leapfrog the beverage cart when explosive diarrhea strikes at 30,000 feet.

Maybe the power just appeals to me because I fly so much.

All the funny SS's got me thinking about SUPERUSELESS IT SUPERPOWERS! How about

Nine-Track Magtape Vision

Able to read data of a 9-track magnetic tape with your own eyes -- albeit at 1 bit per second!

Let me know what SUPERUSELESS IT SUPERPOWERS you'd like to have.

We Have the Charts And Graphs to Back This Up...

Absolutely hilarious, and essential to any enterprise architect who wants to put naysayers in their place from the get go.

Warning --Use of the f'bomb: http://www.stickergiant.com/Charts-and-Graphs_d49.html

This is Literally Hilarious

Something funny to be thankful for on Thanksgiving.

via Marta Strickland

Arrival by Pale 3 featuring Beth Hirsch

Just came across this absolutely haunting song on Pandora. It's from the soundtrack of Crash:

Here's the mp3. The deep piano chords at the beginning are exactly the kind I play with when I goof around on the piano. I can't play at all, but I can make those kinds of chords.

I've been trying to decipher the lyrics for the past hour. Since I can't find a lyric site to upload them to, I'm posting them here. Enjoy!

Arrival

<indistinct>

our stop has come to pass
one that chose the hold
we did our best to do the things that we were told -- to bring
wisdom from the motive

another season to life
maybe the best one of your life

the check is hiding in as gently as he can
through pain, through vanity's depression

if you breath it through the air
you can find -- that has no possession

another season to life
maybe the best one of your life
horizon straight for you
they always see us through

you've arrived

hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo

another season to life
maybe the best one of your life
horizon straight for you
they always see us through

<indistinct>

PDC Gang Signs

From Global Nerdy. This is the best thing I've seen out of PDC so far! Click on the picture to go to the original.

Google Aversion to Conspicuous Consumption?

[I posted this a while ago and then for some reason it disappeared into the aether. I thought it appropriate to bring it back in light of this recent story: A New (Fighter) Jet for Google’s Founders?]

Say what? I did a double -- no triple -- take when I read the following passage in the New York Times article about Andy Rubin, the lead designer of Google's smartphone software platform, Android:

Mr. Rubin readily acknowledges his obsession with consumer gadgets and even more expensive toys — an obsession that put him at odds with Google’s stated aversion to conspicuous consumption.

And this a little later:

As a result, Mr. Rubin had to buy a new car when he came to Google. (A souped-up German sports car that he recently acquired sits at home in his garage.) He acknowledges the discomfort created by the situation. “One of the things that Google’s really good at is not encouraging conspicuous consumption,” he says. “I’m a big fan of well-engineered things, and so I’m wrestling with how those two things can coexist.”

WTF?!?

What do you call the lavishly decorated 767 owned by Sergey and Larry with the exclusive landing rights at NASA's Moffett Field? Modest consumption?

This is the first time I've ever heard any kind of reference to an "aversion to conspicuous consumption" at Google. (I also just did a quick Google search and found nothing.) If true, it's the most hypocritical policy I've ever seen. Perhaps Andy can ask Sergey and Larry if he can hide his German sports car in their hangar at Moffett. <grin>

Very Funny Obama vs McCain Krump/Breakdance Dance-Off

I don't know why, but this video really cracked me up. Especially the special appearance by Palin. Bring it!