Let me preface this by saying that I hate the idea of manufactured fame. It makes me sick to think that stars and music idols are created rather than self-made, that our cultural icons are now factory-produced rather than gaining their status on their own merits. Still, I like to give every artist, and by [...]
Like most people, I’ve been following the progress of the situation in Iraq. It’s become a part of the daily news segment, just as ubiquitous and expected as the weather report. For the past few years, it’s just been a fact of life. I, for one, am sick of it. I’ll go ahead and admit [...]
My coworker Garrett blogs about MySpace religiously. I’m sure if I got him going he could talk for hours about the implications of social networking and the potential marketing impact of a successful profile. Granted, that’s all very interesting stuff, but it’s not something that your average user will ever have need to consider. Still, [...]
Ctrl+Alt+Del is a comic strip about Ethan, a video game addict to whom I can relate more than I care to admit. I first discovered it while customizing my Google homepage during a slow day at work. I nearly fell out of my chair trying to stifle my own laughter. My wife had a similar [...]
Apparently my guest post on Search Engine Lowdown went over well. Garrett, our company’s illustrious blogger, has seen fit to give me another go at it, this time with an article on MarketerToday, including a personal introduction in anticipation of future posts. I even got to write another article for Search Engine Lowdown, this time [...]
Most of the time I like my music mellow and relaxing, but sometimes I just feel like listening to something heavy. Today was a day like that, and lucky me, one of my coworkers has a whole collection of Gravity Kills on their iTunes playlist. I first heard this song on Dain Bramage a few [...]
Whether it is a tradition among other gaming groups or something specific to my friends and I, I really couldn’t say. I do know that it predates my lifetime of gaming experience, and must therefore be at least 14 or 15 years old. We refer to this tradition as the “food challenge,” and it definitely [...]