Posts Tagged ‘ unexpected ’

Summer is for reading

Hope Summer is treating everyone well. Mr. Hero and I are having a killer summer so far. Every once in a while, it’s worth interrupting summer to post something. This time — It’s for Amazon coming out with their new Kindle.  Finally, I think they’ve really ‘got’ it and I’m going to want to pull the [ READ MORE ]

Star Wars + Adidas + World Cup = Awesome

This is an awesome cross pollinated video that is just killer. (While I’m sure it’s the Star Wars Adidas line that makes it possible in the first place, it actually seems slightly cooler). The passion and insanity that the World Cup brings to everything is unparalleled. It’s going to be an awesome month, with lots of things [ READ MORE ]

Getting Paid to do what you love — bad idea?

I’m in a LOST frenzy as the series is winding up (and getting so good!) so it’s worth revisiting why this show rocks. I recently discovered in the frenetic wake of all things LOST, that one of the bands that is referenced from down in the Hatch back in Season 2 named Geronimo Jackson, actually put [ READ MORE ]

Love when a big name follows up

Back in February, Mr. Hero had a very good post about Google being a one trick pony and how that just didn’t make good business sense.  Well, lookie here — who else jumped on that bandwagon of rock solid logic? None other than Yahoo’s Chief Carol Bartz, citing that “Google is going to have a problem [ READ MORE ]

You just never know what the customer wants

Found myself down in the Financial district, walking past the Bull earlier in the week. Given it’s location, on a sliver of bricks between two lanes of traffic, it’s amazing that it is a tourist destination (even though I think it’s wicked cool). There was the standard gaggle of tourists, who appeared to be a mix [ READ MORE ]

Perfect timing, Starbucks is giving it a try

Yesterday, I was talking about the re-usable cup at coffee shops, and wouldn’t you know it – -Starbucks was giving it a go at all of their shops today. (actually after I thought about it for a while, I think they were promoting this on Facebook for the week’s prior, but I didn’t remember). In an [ READ MORE ]

Remember your differentiator

When staying in Vegas, I used to go out of my way to book a room at the Hard Rock Casino & Hotel. It was a hip boutique hotel that had a good vibe, nice rates,  was fun and had that little rock and roll edge to it. (I’m a sucker for the rock memorabilia) My [ READ MORE ]

Hey, are we screwed? Jack just called in Dead?

No one wants to keel over dead at the office — no one. And lots of folks joke about it, but for real,  someone I know really well just had to go through this with one of their employees. Here’s the story. A big important meeting, lots of hands on deck and ‘Jack’ isn’t in the room, [ READ MORE ]

‘Power of Print’ :: Stuck for not the obvious reasons

OH man, This is a real bummer. Last week, the Magazine industry launched a $90M (That’s right, NINETY MIL) ad campaign called the ‘Power of Print’ and unfortunately, it seems like they are setting themselves up to get stuck.  Most readers on the web say that magazines are dying, it’s over , etc. and you [ READ MORE ]