Nothing more to say than that.
That is all.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
A Somewhat More Convenient Truth
With all due respect to Academy Award, Grammy, Nobel Prize Winner and Former Vice President Al Gore, global warming has its perks.
In my time at UMiami, I did come home in the winter for Christmas Break, so I never forgot that it got cold each year (although the past couple of years I hadn't seen snow when I was home). I did forget how looong the cold/snow season lasted. And while the optimistic side of me wonders if the groundhog did indeed see his shadow, my more realistic side understands that it's got to get cold again soon.
That said, I am indeed looking forward to the spring thaw. That is one thing I didn't really see down in Miami.
That is all.
In my time at UMiami, I did come home in the winter for Christmas Break, so I never forgot that it got cold each year (although the past couple of years I hadn't seen snow when I was home). I did forget how looong the cold/snow season lasted. And while the optimistic side of me wonders if the groundhog did indeed see his shadow, my more realistic side understands that it's got to get cold again soon.
That said, I am indeed looking forward to the spring thaw. That is one thing I didn't really see down in Miami.
That is all.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
The New Hotness
So I went out and picked up a new iMac. The saleswoman was extremely helpful, and when I got the machine home, the Time Machine transfer worked 99% perfectly. In fact, the only issue was that I had to use Adobe's phone re-activation system (rather than just doing it online) in order to turn off the reactivation splash window. Otherwise, though things are running smoothly. Here's hoping all logic board issues limit themselves to the next three years.
Look at it there. Being all aluminum and sleek and what not.
Dramatic shot! The depth perception, my God, the depth perception!
The new keyboard. Still getting used to it, although it's more the rearrangement of the volume/dashboard/brightness keys than it is the new flattened keys.
Lastly is my new G-Drive. I actually bought that a few weeks back for Time Machine backups. Almost prophetic, really. But now it matches the look perfectly. Go aesthetics!
So that's my new iMac. Now to get to work to pay for this thing. :D
That is all.
Look at it there. Being all aluminum and sleek and what not.
Dramatic shot! The depth perception, my God, the depth perception!
The new keyboard. Still getting used to it, although it's more the rearrangement of the volume/dashboard/brightness keys than it is the new flattened keys.
Lastly is my new G-Drive. I actually bought that a few weeks back for Time Machine backups. Almost prophetic, really. But now it matches the look perfectly. Go aesthetics!So that's my new iMac. Now to get to work to pay for this thing. :D
That is all.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Super Bowl Ads and an Ad-related Rant.
In hindsight, not a lot to say about this year's Super Bowl ads. More of the same really.
Budweiser went adorable with horses. Everyone else (including Bud Light) went violent. Doritos had the best ads by far (both "Crystal Ball" and "Power of the Crunch").
I will admit it's cool that an amateur ad beat out Budweiser for the first time in about a decade for #1 ad. It shows that good advertising can come from anywhere.
On the flip side, there was a story posted on Digg on Monday about people in Paris graffiti-ing (sp?) billboards in full view of police in order to gain publicity for their anti-ad movement. Meanwhile, 90% of the populous of said Digg regales them as heroes, positing that advertisers didn't ask our permission to advertise to us, so these people don't need permission to spray paint all over their ads.
I get it, I'm in advertising, it's Digg, it's a forum, John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory, but it still drives me nuts that people are that ignorant and biased that they want to call for the destruction of an industry that pays for almost everything they enjoy. Yeah, there are some crappy ads that no one wants to look at and/or listen to, but some people wear ugly shirts or paint their houses an ugly color. We don't assume we can do what we want to them, their shirts or their houses. It's respect, plain and simple. I think people forget that.
That is all.
Budweiser went adorable with horses. Everyone else (including Bud Light) went violent. Doritos had the best ads by far (both "Crystal Ball" and "Power of the Crunch").
I will admit it's cool that an amateur ad beat out Budweiser for the first time in about a decade for #1 ad. It shows that good advertising can come from anywhere.
On the flip side, there was a story posted on Digg on Monday about people in Paris graffiti-ing (sp?) billboards in full view of police in order to gain publicity for their anti-ad movement. Meanwhile, 90% of the populous of said Digg regales them as heroes, positing that advertisers didn't ask our permission to advertise to us, so these people don't need permission to spray paint all over their ads.
I get it, I'm in advertising, it's Digg, it's a forum, John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory, but it still drives me nuts that people are that ignorant and biased that they want to call for the destruction of an industry that pays for almost everything they enjoy. Yeah, there are some crappy ads that no one wants to look at and/or listen to, but some people wear ugly shirts or paint their houses an ugly color. We don't assume we can do what we want to them, their shirts or their houses. It's respect, plain and simple. I think people forget that.
That is all.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Your Precious Super Bowl was Terrible
I woke up this morning and everyone is talking about what an exciting game the Super Bowl was. I've even heard the phrase "Best Super Bowl Ever" thrown around.
Did I miss something?
Warner throws an interception in the endzone leading to a 100 yard touchdown (longest touchdown ever in a Super Bowl, btw) and yet he's lauded for such a great game. He had one decent drive, in my opinion. Meanwhile both teams were plagued with penalties (Arizona lost 106 yards, making them the best player on the Steelers after Holmes; the Steelers lost only 52 yards, but were stupid enough to get a holding penalty in their own endzone for a safety). Harrison had his 100 yard touchdown, but then made a complete ass of himself in the fourth quarter.
By the third quarter I concluded that neither team was going to win the game, the other will have lost. Sure enough, it was Warner's interception that lost them the game.
Any game that was that riddled with errors and unsportsmanlike conduct does not a "Best Super Bowl Ever" make. But I suppose if it distracts attention from last year, I can't really complain.
Anyway, enough ranting.I'll have something to say about the ads soon.
That is all.
Did I miss something?
Warner throws an interception in the endzone leading to a 100 yard touchdown (longest touchdown ever in a Super Bowl, btw) and yet he's lauded for such a great game. He had one decent drive, in my opinion. Meanwhile both teams were plagued with penalties (Arizona lost 106 yards, making them the best player on the Steelers after Holmes; the Steelers lost only 52 yards, but were stupid enough to get a holding penalty in their own endzone for a safety). Harrison had his 100 yard touchdown, but then made a complete ass of himself in the fourth quarter.
By the third quarter I concluded that neither team was going to win the game, the other will have lost. Sure enough, it was Warner's interception that lost them the game.
Any game that was that riddled with errors and unsportsmanlike conduct does not a "Best Super Bowl Ever" make. But I suppose if it distracts attention from last year, I can't really complain.
Anyway, enough ranting.
That is all.
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