Your product sucks, your customers are fleeing in droves, your distribution network has collapsed, and your new CEO is moonlighting as the President of the United States. So what's the brilliant corporate strategy for reinventing yourself?
Change the background color of your corporate logo from blue to green!
Just brilliant.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Racism
A white person makes a factual observation, like blacks are far more likely to commit serious crimes than whites, and they are automatically labeled a racist and forced to grovel for forgiveness. But 50 black teenagers attack a white family in their own front yard yelling "This is a black world!" and the mental defectives in the Akron police department "aren't ready to call it a hate crime." I'm sure police attempts to sweep this incident under the rug will go a long way towards eliminating white-black tensions in Akron and elsewhere.
Liar, Liar
Politicians and their lackeys never lie, right? Especially when the truth makes you look like you're completely incompetent.
What makes people in government assume that the rest of us are as stupid as they are? Oh yeah; the fact the we not just tolerate moral and mental defectives in our government, we consistently vote them into office.
What makes people in government assume that the rest of us are as stupid as they are? Oh yeah; the fact the we not just tolerate moral and mental defectives in our government, we consistently vote them into office.
Obamessiah Loses His Shine
Obama's approval rating has gone negative. Too bad people didn't figure out what this clown was about before they made him the most powerful man on the planet. But I'm sure people won't make the mistake of voting for the packaging instead of the substance again. This time for sure.
Anyone interested in some ocean-front property in North Dakota?
Anyone interested in some ocean-front property in North Dakota?
June Stats
A little late, but I finally got around to looking at the site stats for June.
The total visitors for the month was 233 (166 repeat visitors and 73 new visitors), virtually identical to last month.
The Firefox vs. MSIE numbers are slightly more in favor of Firefox this month, but only because Chrome (6%) seems to be eating into IE (52.5%) rather than Firefox (36.9%) gaining any share. On the OS front, Win XP (76%) actually gained on Win Vista (15.5%). The rest were virtually unchanged. And I still have my one NT/Firefox 2.0 virus-lover.
That's it; I won't bore everyone with a bunch of numbers.
The total visitors for the month was 233 (166 repeat visitors and 73 new visitors), virtually identical to last month.
The Firefox vs. MSIE numbers are slightly more in favor of Firefox this month, but only because Chrome (6%) seems to be eating into IE (52.5%) rather than Firefox (36.9%) gaining any share. On the OS front, Win XP (76%) actually gained on Win Vista (15.5%). The rest were virtually unchanged. And I still have my one NT/Firefox 2.0 virus-lover.
That's it; I won't bore everyone with a bunch of numbers.
Hot Breakfast
Mmmmm....we are finally staying at a hotel that has a free breakfast bar with hot food! We both had a belgian waffle (should have split one) and sausage patties. I had a few spoonfuls of strawberry yogurt too and Ric had a small bagel. Yummy for the tummy :-)
Of course, after eating out late last night (yes, we crossed another time line) at Outback, we really didn't NEED breakfast this morning; but, free is free and we have to take advantage of it.
No news yet on the job front. The office I am trying to reach somebody at does not open until 10a (late day today) and I left a voice mail for the manager to call me since we are in town. Keep those fingers crossed that this spot or the Phoenix one pans out really soon.
Of course, after eating out late last night (yes, we crossed another time line) at Outback, we really didn't NEED breakfast this morning; but, free is free and we have to take advantage of it.
No news yet on the job front. The office I am trying to reach somebody at does not open until 10a (late day today) and I left a voice mail for the manager to call me since we are in town. Keep those fingers crossed that this spot or the Phoenix one pans out really soon.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
On the Move Again
Debbie got a phone call from Tampa last night, so this morning we packed up and headed out from Mobile to Tampa, Florida. We arrived here around 7pm, grabbed some food, and are now enjoying our upgraded, manager special "suite." It's really not a suite, just a double-sized room with separate areas for the bed and sitting area. Still; a long way from shabby. We expect to be here for a couple days, maybe longer, depending on what happens tomorrow. Weather is very unstable right now; it's been gloomy and raining since we rolled into Florida this morning, and it doesn't look like it will be changing anytime soon, so it's a good thing we have an internet connection and cable in our room.
While we were in Mobile, we discovered something rather interesting: we have more and better options for high-speed internet connectivity in little Prescott, Arizona than we did in Mobile, Alabama. We thought we would have wifi where we were staying, but it turns out that it was just some people running open connections that they secured when they figured out other people were swiping their bandwidth. McDonald's advertised wifi, but it seemed to be non-functional when we tried it. The public library didn't have it and the PC's in the library were so locked down that we couldn't even get to this site. We ended up not being able to do anything other than check e-mail once the entire time we were there.
Observation: If you are driving in the most remote place on earth (say, west Texas) and there are only three cars in a fifty-mile radius, one will be you, one will be in front of you driving 10 mph under the speed limit, and the third will will be parked in your blind spot and you won't be able to shake him without performing some sort of Jason-Bourne-style driving maneuver.
Well, it's been a long day of driving, so we're going to bed.
While we were in Mobile, we discovered something rather interesting: we have more and better options for high-speed internet connectivity in little Prescott, Arizona than we did in Mobile, Alabama. We thought we would have wifi where we were staying, but it turns out that it was just some people running open connections that they secured when they figured out other people were swiping their bandwidth. McDonald's advertised wifi, but it seemed to be non-functional when we tried it. The public library didn't have it and the PC's in the library were so locked down that we couldn't even get to this site. We ended up not being able to do anything other than check e-mail once the entire time we were there.
Observation: If you are driving in the most remote place on earth (say, west Texas) and there are only three cars in a fifty-mile radius, one will be you, one will be in front of you driving 10 mph under the speed limit, and the third will will be parked in your blind spot and you won't be able to shake him without performing some sort of Jason-Bourne-style driving maneuver.
Well, it's been a long day of driving, so we're going to bed.
Friday, July 03, 2009
Hammond, Louisiana
We over-slept, so we didn't make it all the way to Mobile, but we are close. One bit of local color; there is a drive-thru daiquiri place in front of our hotel. Better yet, it opens at 11am, so you can get an early start. Only in Louisiana.
Otherwise, the day was relatively uneventful. Our highlight of the day was finally getting across the nearly 900 miles of Texas.
That's about it. We'll be in Mobile tomorrow for sure.
Otherwise, the day was relatively uneventful. Our highlight of the day was finally getting across the nearly 900 miles of Texas.
That's about it. We'll be in Mobile tomorrow for sure.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Seguin, Texas
We made some good progress today with a good chance that we will get where we are going some time tomorrow evening. We even scored a free dessert for not freaking out about the giant Texas tree roach that was running around the restaurant. In all, not a bad day.
We haven't taken many photos so far. We've seen a lot of things that we want to stop and take pictures of, but this trip is about getting where we are going. We may take more time on the way back to load up the camera.
Not much else to say. There just isn't anything interesting about sitting in a car for 11 hours.
We haven't taken many photos so far. We've seen a lot of things that we want to stop and take pictures of, but this trip is about getting where we are going. We may take more time on the way back to load up the camera.
Not much else to say. There just isn't anything interesting about sitting in a car for 11 hours.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Lordsburg NM
We finally got going around 230p from Prescott Valley. We decided to try to get all the way through Arizona and into New Mexico before we stopped for the night. We ended up about 30 miles from the border and staying at a Days Inn in Lordsburg NM. (At least I believe that is the name of this town)
Tomorrow we are trying to plan on our long driving day. Hopefully we will be up and out of here at a decent time. Of course, once we crossed the border, we gained an hour. Arizona does not "do" daylight savings time, so once we left Arizona we jumped to daylight savings time.
I did finally hear back from AAA Arizona. I have to reapply for the position posted. It is at the call center in Phoenix. I emailed my resume tonight -- maybe I'll here back from them.
Tomorrow we are trying to plan on our long driving day. Hopefully we will be up and out of here at a decent time. Of course, once we crossed the border, we gained an hour. Arizona does not "do" daylight savings time, so once we left Arizona we jumped to daylight savings time.
I did finally hear back from AAA Arizona. I have to reapply for the position posted. It is at the call center in Phoenix. I emailed my resume tonight -- maybe I'll here back from them.
On the Road Again
We're starting to haul stuff down to the car and hope to be out of here in the next hour or so. We'll have the laptop with us this time, but we don't know what we'll find in terms of connectivity. Expect the usual sporadicness that has been the hallmark of this blog lately.
No word from AAA, so we are operating on the assumption that it's the normal, morally defective, screw-with-people deal we've come to expect out here in the territories.
No word from AAA, so we are operating on the assumption that it's the normal, morally defective, screw-with-people deal we've come to expect out here in the territories.
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