Archive for June, 2007

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Communication: independent of time and space

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Check out what my friends at WILLIAMJOSEPH, an up-and-coming marketing/communications/advertising firm in Calgary, are doing.
Having worked in the public relations field for a long time, it’s interesting to see how firms operate today.
Terms like perception management, branding and strategic marketing are integrated into a host of traditional public relations tools. In this firm’s statement of [...]

Directionally-challenged

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

This is the reason I need GPS on our European rental car.
And Happy Father’s Day to all you Dad’s out there. Having had no children, I didn’t have a pancake breakfast ready for me this morning nor did I receive an ugly necktie. Not that there’s anything wrong with Father’s Day presents.
Maybe I’ll start [...]

Avignon and Siena will be home this fall

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

I’ve left a hint or two of my fall trip to France and Italy mainly to see if anyone reads beyond a few words in my posts. By cracky, don’t you know there are some die-hard visitors who do read my posts.

So here’s the broad outline of the travel plans
I’ll be away from late September [...]

My worst nightmare — a toupee

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Grab the Scavenger Hunt code.
Photo Theme: HAIR.
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This Saturday’s theme is HAIR. Yes, that’s me in the above photo with hair or more correctly, lack of hair, which has long since gone.
During my teen years, I envied my best friend who flipped [...]

A bookshelf that falls into place

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

So how bored are you today? Up for a handyman’s woodworking challenge?
I found these plans to build a Tetris DVD (or book) shelf.
Click on the images below for a larger view of what the finished bookshelf is like.

And then I remembered, I’ve already build a similar bookshelf — just not with [...]

Passport application process was painless

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I am still shaking my head.
You may have heard of the long line-ups and waiting to apply for a Canadian passport. Last month, some people stood in line for two days just to get into the passport office.
Needless to say, I have been procrastinating to renew my passport hoping the government doofuses would figure out [...]

Ennui relief

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Why oh why do I seem to gravitate towards such inanity?
If you click on Murphy, you’ll get a dazzling zinging wink as well as a random slogan. Geesh, who thinks up these things? But I had to post this entry and include the slogan generator just the same.
Oh well, perhaps it’s just to relieve [...]

Shuffle the balls

Monday, June 11th, 2007

I am so glad I don’t go to casinos. I know if I started playing some of those casino games, I’d be there for hours. And my money would be left there as well.
That’s how bad I am at lots of these types of games.
I found this shuffle game on The Presurfer.
I think I [...]

More cocktail chatter tidbits

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

I’m always going on about gathering trivia for those lulls one has during cocktail chatter.
Finally, I may have found a site that will give me more weird trivia than I could ever wish for.
The Weird Converter tells me that an Airbus A380 is equal in weight to 43250.25989583 spider monkeys.
Now is that a factoid [...]

Manure-kicking boots

Friday, June 8th, 2007

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Photo Theme: SHOES.
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