Latest on twitter:
Sigh of Relief
- me: http://moustachette.com/dev/
- client: can we get a "blink" tag on "Some things are irritating" ??
- me: um
- me: are
- client: hahah
- me: you
- me: okay
- me: that was going on
- me: the "yes, a client said that to me" board
- client: hahah
- client: looking goood
Mom, I want you to make me one of these. I can’t find the original designer anywhere, but I think it was on GQ as a $10,000 sweater.
Oh, Big Media
- person a: am cooking up a blog post in re: social media
- person a: wrote a bunch of shit down last night when drunk post-beerfest
- person b: nice
- person a: yeah
- person a: not all bad
- person a: need to organize
- person a: more or less, the brilliant people on my media team
- person a: and they are really good
- person a: like, they make me feel like an intern
- person a: or at the very least that i do not deserve this job and that previous job was playskool, my first media plan
- person a: last night were like, what is twitter? oh, i don't do facebook and social media stuff, it's dumb
- person a: is not the entire purpose of media to find the avenue to lend cred to a message per specific audience?
- person a: how can you just disregard
- person a: whatever.
- person a: and so on. need to work on it.
- person b: it's dumb?
- person a: right
- person b: unbelievable
- person b: that was it
- person b: that's all they said
- person a: well the guy who said fb was dumb said that he doesn't want to be found
- person a: whatever
- person a: and then my boss, who is awesome, and on fb, was kind of buying the twitter thing, and then she was like, i don't have time for that, and it's stalkerish
- person a: stalker, maybe
- person a: but she is sup on xyz brands
- person a: all like, 12-34 targets
- person a: jesus.
- person b: right
- person b: because those people are all over magazines
- person b: and TV and drivetime
- person b: but
- person b: not online
- person a: don't talk to one another
- person b: yeah
- person a: right
- person a: i need to think about how i want to discuss
- person b: here's a start
- person b: "I will enjoy having your job next year"
- person a: want focus to be importance of social for media
- person a: not
- person a: the people at my new job are dumb
- person b: my suggested thesis
- person b: would be
- person b: people are talking to each other online. it's measurable, and you can find the right people easier than you ever could before. if you want to ignore that, feel free. i, on the other hand, will not be ignoring the fastest-growing, most networked channel of communication we have ever experienced.
Eats Shoots and Leaves
- Katie: I'm so like, the technically worst person in the world.
- Dan: You're technically the worst person in the world?
- Katie: Yeah.
- Everyone: {Laughter}
He's Cute, Too.
- Me: So what kind of food were you thinking?
- Eric: I dunno.
- Me: Somewhere around here?
- Eric: We could order in.
- Me: That would be fun!
- Eric: And super gay.
- Me: Obviously gay.
- Eric: You need to Tumble that.
"What’s that thing called? The thing you made in junior high? A dalirama?"
Kevin, talking about a diorama.
The Great Train Throbbery
- Edward Pierce: What exactly are you constructing?
- Emily Trent: We thought a water wheel. It will be so delightful, especially when there will be the rusted curve of the water wheel itself. Don't you agree?
- Edgar Trent: We are building the rusted wheel at considerable expense.
- Emily Trent: It is constructed of previously rusted metal, the craftsmen are most ingenious. And of course we must wait for the weeds to grow up around the site before it takes on the proper appearance.
- Edward Pierce: Oh I'm sure it'll be a handsome ruin.
- Edgar Trent: Where is Elizabeth?
- Emily Trent: I have passed many pleasant hours here, watching the workman fit each piece into its precise slot. Such skill!
- Edward Pierce: They screw it together do they?
- Edgar Trent: No, bolt it actually. With long bolts, fitted tightly.
- Emily Trent: Yes. *Long* bolts, fitted tightly.
- Edward Pierce: I've just returned from America, a country of many prominent erections.
- Emily Trent: It *is* exciting to see things come together, so long as the quality does not suffer.
- Edward Pierce: Tight-fitting joints, that's the secret.
- Emily Trent: It's *so* rare these days.
- Edward Pierce: [It] depends on the skill of the workman, of course.
- Emily Trent: And he *must* have the proper tools.
"So *John* has been spending some quality time the last few days trying to convince me that Jesus would be a capitalist."
*Steve*, at work
Quitting: tough in both cases
- me: dude, what *larry* go as
- him: who is he?
- me: brokeback?
- him: haha. Marlboro Man, but he was super pissed 'cause everyone kept saying Brokeback. Honestly, what did he think? People are gonna recognize a long gone icon of cigarettes or a recently Academy movie?
- me: haha.
"You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think."
The world-famous, Emmy-winning Durry Jones
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It’s difficult to know the right way to use emerging things. They are too visible, too new.
They are perhaps allowing the formation of new kinds of relationships: thinner relationships with people who we like and who like the stuff we like, who we want to keep up with but don’t necessarily want to see very often or actively interact except maybe once in a while when we know they could help us out and vice versa because they are awesome at something we can’t do and vice versa.
Which actually sounds like the kind of relationship I’d consider having with a brand.
But we probably shouldn’t treat them as new billboard inventory.
"Grant McCracken on Twitter and such (via elgaffney)
… was talking about this with my mom and dad, both of whom blog. Weird.
Friday, 4:00
- Lady: Are you going out right now?
- Gent: I'm going to the liquor store right now.
- All: Laughter!
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I literally feel like I was just in an English class.
Taught in Mandarin.
"Kevin Sheehan, regarding a meeting about our time entry software.
