Archive For August, 2009
Airplanes are a great place for marketers, because they provide a pretty captive audience. When I’m bored on a flight, I’ll read anything. Sometimes even the safety information card. Sometimes even the SkyMall magazine. Either way, I thought this napkin ad was pretty clever: Or maybe I thought it was cool because “ability to fly” [...]
Some friends from UW were married over the weekend on Mercer Island. Congratulations to Erik and Katie and here’s to a lifetime of happiness together! The wedding was a pretty laid back affair with the world’s quickest ceremony, buckets of beer on ice, and catered Mexican food. The best part? A nacho-cheese fountain a la [...]
So I’m hard at work the other day and I look under my desk to find this creature: No help at all. He must be resting up for his trip to Club K-9 this weekend. Golf this morning, then dropping him off, then work, then heading to the airport for another quick trip to Seattle. [...]
“Your checking account is pointless.” That was the headline on a marketing piece I received from Citibank, advertising their own checking account that rewards users “Thank You” points. Come to think of it, my account with WaMu/Chase is “point-less.” The headline works because: Everyone has a checking account Checking accounts are considered “practical,” not “pointless.” [...]
Everyone gets a vote, including this woman. I’m all for free speech, but when your speech includes, “On the east coast they have slaves,” it might be better to keep quiet. Wow.
Who says shih tzu’s aren’t hiking dogs? Mochi proved the naysayers wrong this weekend on his ascent of the 2500 ft Mission Peak in Fremont. It was warm on the trail and there was almost no tree cover. But fur coat and all — and panting all the way — he pushed on like a [...]
