Sparklers in the Brain: 2006-11-05

Friday, November 10, 2006

Mike's post put me in a reminiscing mood.

So I had the Adcenter standby, a Chipotle burrito, for lunch. (see Kevin's post below and mentally remove the meat.)
Outdoors on the patio. In a tee shirt and flip flops. 'Cause it's 80 freaking degrees in Dallas.

I have seen exactly two red leaf-ed trees and one yellow leaf-ed tree so far. There is no fall here.
I may have to google some autumnal foliage pics. Additional burrito photos optional.

Happy Friday!

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Any Idears?

Anyone given a cool non-powerpoint presentation recently?

Flip charts, iMovies, hypnotists, clowns...?

I'm preparing to brief the planning department on that little user generated content thing you may have heard something about. Looking for a way to not make everyone fall asleep instantly.

I heard recently that there are about 30 million powerpoint presentations given each day. That means pieces of more 30 million souls dying a little.

My shout out to Glenn

These things are fascinating.
I recommend browsing.
Obviously I'm avoiding work.
http://www.housetrucks.com/maindex.html

the elephants are loosing it!

I know that I am notorious for being an animal freak, so admittedly I started reading this because I was like "ohhh, sad elephants. that makes me sad. boo hoo." But then I read further and realized it's a much deeper problem.

It explains that this is "a sort of emergent species-wide emotional breakdown resulting from human interference over long periods of time."

We've finally even pissed off the elephants. Good for us.

So, for those of you that have an New York Times online account (it's free), you should read this article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08elephant.html?ei=5070&en=e4cdf6d46460ee8f&ex=1163221200&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1163096495-OabpEP0c4mOGHLlX2nA6oA

If you can't see that because you can't sign in, this is a good summary.

http://roguejeff.com/rogue-elephants-in-the-ny-times/