Swap blood for an oil change.
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Run-in with a local music stud
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My new Christmas slacks (thanks Mom) scored a complement on New Years Eve. I'm returning the favor and complementing the quality of the pants, the design of the company's website, and their excellent marketing ideas. You have to check out these marketing videos and print ads, very funny stuff.
The new Haggar pants are so sharp looking that even the inside of the pants are worth mentioning. The inside waistband and pockets are all trimmed out in nice burnt orange fabric and there's a Q stitched into the zipper area. Great marketing idea, as it got me searching for what the Q represents?
I've become so familiar with gimmicky marketing that I generally tune out all such efforts. Haggar not only got my attention via the quality of product, but also with their delivery of "the message".
I remembered being similarly impressed with the quality of the buttons on the Southern Tide Skipjack Polos we had around the office when Evan was shooting some photos. Similar quality, similar market...me thinks there are some lessons to be learned here.
Jim
We'd like to thank all our readers and friends for chipping in cash to help out our boy Patrick, age 8. Here's a recap.
OrangeCoat gave the Yeti your donations and ours and set him free wandering the aisles of Wally World in Taylors. We're not sure if it was the Mongoose in our cart or the little boys underwear, but we were getting weird looks the entire trip.
Anyway, it should be a good Christmas when our boy wakes up to find a slick looking Mongoose "Hoop D" freestyle bike and a bunch of other gifts under the tree. Just to be sure he gets the full experience we bought socks and underwear.
“At the end of the day” we think Hands on the Holidays offered an opportunity for us to “Think outside the box” and deliver a “Win-win” “Solution” extending beyond our “Core competency”. This demonstrates the “Synergy” that can be achieved between the public and private sector when you “Take it offline” and “Redeploy people” for a good cause. Alright, I'll stop with the buzzwords. Sorry, it was a topic at today's Bag Lunch Thursday.
Thanks again. Next year we'll try not to wait until the last minute and see if we can gather enough support for even more kids.
Our best for a happy, healthy holiday season and a great 2008.
So, I was about to "nerd out" with our friends over at MIT World and watch someone way smarter than me talk about Climate Variability and Change and their Impact on the Global Harvest.
And then it happened, I clicked Play and was presented with a Save As... for a .ram file. The first thing that popped into my head was "are you for real?". Yes, apparently they are for RealPlayer, which is a departure from the previous videos I've watched from MIT.
As it turns out, this was reason enough for me to completely lose interest in watching the video. Instead, it inspired me to write on the Yeti and ask if anyone actually still uses RealPlayer? Or, are there any other old technologies out there that make you completely turn the other direction?
Also, I just wanted to point out I'd rather use RealPlayer than Apple Quicktime. It has nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with the fact that everytime I stumble upon something that requires the QT player I'm forced to do some damn full download install. At which point they also try to sneak in iTunes.
I don't have any fancy video players to plug here, as I simply use Windows Media Player or Winamp. Of course, I'd rather all videos just stream in the browser. I can understand older content, but posting new content on old technology is just weird.
Please people, anything but .ram or .mov files.
That is all.
A review of the Google Maps for Blackberry and a list of some other useful BB apps.
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Tis the season for gift giving and guilt trips.
A few weeks back, our friends over at Hands on Greenville asked me, Jimmy C, about adopting a kid for Christmas. Their solicitation couldn’t have come at a worse time. Wedding gifts, wedding related expenses, and baby presents for YTD 2007 probably add up to more than I’ve spent on people in the previous 26 years.
After weeks of sitting on the adoption form I managed a self-inflicted guilt trip. I thought, how can I spend so much on family and friends and not participating in Hands on the Holidays?
So, I checked with the guys and it has been agreed OrangeCoat will match outside contributions to adopt up to two kids for Christmas. Now, we’re calling out to our Yeti readership and friends in the Greenville area to help out a good cause.
If you want to chip in like $10 bucks then please send us an email, call, stop by the OC World HQ, or find one of us out and about before December 9th. Or, if you haven’t seen the new office then stop by and see us. Just consider that we have a $10 cover charge for guided tours. We may even have some small gatherings at the office next week.
Also, if you don’t know Hands on Greenville, check them out. It’s an easy, no obligation way to find volunteer opportunities around Greenville County. I’ve found it’s a great way to meet new people in the community and it just makes ya feel good inside.
As they say, “It’s all about the kids.”
