Office Phone Prank #19
I was reminded today of an office telephone prank I used to play when I worked for the corporate arm of a noted Australian university. It was a simple enough jape, but always good for a giggle on a slow afternoon.
Twimericks
It started here: Well now. That’s a cry for help that cannot go unanswered. And so dear friends I give you: The Twimerick. As far as I have been able to discern from my extensive research1, while the word twimerick is in popular use, it’s most commonly applied to a combination of tongue twister and [...]
I was wrong
It can happen with song lyrics and quotes, be they popular or obscure. It may be the mis-heard name of somebody you met last week or an old wives’ tale which years ago took erroneous root in your mental filing cabinet of Things That Are Correct™.
Waiter, there’s a soup in my iPad
But my enthusiasm for Melbourne restaurant Pearl dropped several notches last week when I read that proprietor Chris Lucas intends to supplement printed menus with Apple’s new plaything, the iPad.
Modern Ideas Are Bullshit
In a nutshell, the crowdsourcing premise is simple. Publishers ask audience for content. Audience supplies content to publishers. Publishers publish audience-supplied content back to same audience. Audience consumes content supplied by self and repackaged with adbanners by publisher. Copywriters go back to waiting tables, where they belong.
Stay out of my phone
Mr, Mrs and Ms Marketer, listen up. Let me tell you now, plainly and simply: If you ever ring my phone, or send me an SMS, with any kind of sales message, you and I will never do business. Ever.
Talkin’ about Shoes
For reasons both complex and stupid, I recently composed a few paragraphs for the ever charming legal-eagle @gabfran on the subject of footwear. Check it out at http://lawandshoes.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/guest-shoe-blog-post-by-gilfer-the-wedding-shoes/. My humble thanks also to the anonymous twitter friend who found some very kind words to say about me by way of an introduction. You know who [...]
Photographica
An hour or so ago I started writing this post, intending it to be a simple pointer to my new photoblog. I somehow ended up writing a love letter to Flickr by mistake.
So, There Was This Guy…
…and he had a bunch of websites, some dating back almost ten years.* Most of these sites came and went over greater and lesser periods of time, generally reflecting for the the changing tastes, enthusiasms and MTV-style attention span of their author. Some them only existed as vague ideas, because if there’s one thing the [...]