If you google “DHL Sucks” this is what you get.
If you google “FedEx Sucks” this is what you get.
If you google “UPS Sucks” this is what you get.
Each of the comments and horror stories deals with different aspects of the companies suckage. In my experience, and in reading the comments, the breadth [...]
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Google “DHL Sucks”
March 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off
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American Copywriter: When you get wrapped up in your own industry jargon
July 12th, 2006 · Comments Off
American Copywriter: When you get wrapped up in your own industry jargon
This is a pretty interesting blog posted on American Copywriter’s blog. I think the most important point to bear in mind from Jennifer’s post is that you have to remember the customer. It’s not about you, it’s not about your client, it’s not [...]
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It’s 76 degrees to day at 9:47AM in KC
May 24th, 2006 · No Comments
If the heat doesn’t kill you the humidity will.
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Testing my Word Press Post Widget
February 28th, 2006 · No Comments
I’m testing a new Widget that allows me to post to this blog using a widget on my desktop.
It’s amazing how this all gets easier and easier to do. I wonder when my computer will crash from too many widgets?
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Real life bleeding fingers and broken guitar strings.
October 7th, 2005 · No Comments
Learn art direction with paper and pencil, not a computer.
That’s basically one of the “rules” of advertising I heard from American Copywriter the other day.
Nothing could be more true.
I didn’t go to art school. I didn’t go to business school. I didn’t go to music school. I graduated with a [...]
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Why are all these Romans speaking with British accents?
September 6th, 2005 · 1 Comment
I’m not a historian, but I have studied some linguistics; specifically, history of language.
I know for instance that the Romans spoke Latin and carried that language to almost all of the surrounding areas they conquered. I guess it’s possible my linguistics professor left out the part where the romans adopted the accent of Old [...]
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When the saints go marching in
September 4th, 2005 · No Comments
This article from the Manchester Union Leader, a staunchly conservative newspaper from New Hampshire, says more clearly than I ever could the blunders of the current administration in the wake of the hurricane. So I’ll leave that part to them.
I took the picture above in New Orleans in Jackson Square in May of 2001. [...]
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Rule Number Six, “How Fascinating”
August 26th, 2005 · No Comments
To live in New York must be what it’s like to live inside an audio compressor. Everything moves a such a pace, and all these diverse sources come through that one spot before they are processed and spit back out to dissipate into the world.
It doesn’t surprise me that those people can [...]
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Rockridge Institute “War on Terror” rest in peace
August 6th, 2005 · No Comments
Rockridge Institute - “War on Terror,” Rest In Peace
George Lakoff looks at the armistice of the phrase “War on Terror.” Very interesting read.
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I Wish I was Your Mother
August 3rd, 2005 · No Comments
“I scream at you for sharing
‘n I curse you just for caring
I hate the clothes you’re wearing, they’re so pretty
‘n I tell to not to see me
‘n I tell you not to feel me
‘n I make your life a drag, it’s such a pity
‘n I watch your warm glow palin’
‘n I watch your sparkle fadin’
As [...]
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