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.
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
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.
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
Something funny to be thankful for on Thanksgiving.
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 motiveanother season to life
maybe the best one of your lifethe check is hiding in as gently as he can
through pain, through vanity's depressionif you breath it through the air
you can find -- that has no possessionanother season to life
maybe the best one of your life
horizon straight for you
they always see us throughyou'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 hooanother season to life
maybe the best one of your life
horizon straight for you
they always see us through<indistinct>
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.
[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:
And this a little later:
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>
I don't know why, but this video really cracked me up. Especially the special appearance by Palin. Bring it!
I am an ironist (see http://ironick.typepad.com/Ironist.html) and general systems theorist (talk about a duality), a member of my loving immediate family along with my wife and three children, and an analyst for a major IT "Research and Advisory" firm.
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