Lose the Keys, Gain Time…

According to a story that appeared in The Wall Street Journal, UPS (United Parcel Service) has come up with a way to speed up deliveries/reduce costs — that doesn’t involve breaking any laws. Having already optimized many of the delivery-related processes and procedures (i.e. drivers avoid left turns and are required to walk at a [...]

Petco’s New Tagline Emphasizes Differentiator…

Coming on the heels of Burger King doing away with the creepy king, a headline in one of the newsletters I get shouted, “Petco Revamps Logo, Tagline.” For Burger King, the move was long overdue. But Petco?? If I want to see a Padres game while in San Diego, I tell folks I’m heading “Where [...]

Mash-up Cracks Me Up…

So I was working my early morning shift when I suddenly became aware of a song I hadn’t heard before. I paused and pondered what was striking my ears. Then I laughed out loud. For real? So I looked it up and I regret to say, I am quite late to the party when it [...]

The Surprise that Shook up my Jedemi Project…

I had been casually thumbing through the Arts & Leisure section of the Sunday New York Times when I came upon this story: “NIght Flight”? That’s the same name as a book by one of my guys, St. X (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry). The gist of the story was that Clarence Brown’s “Night Flight,” a 1933 [...]

Inkling: Innovative e-Textbooks for the iPad

Talk about innovative… Check this out! Matt MacInnis, a Nova Scotia native, Harvard grad, and former Apple employee (eight years), has founded a company called Inkling that mades digital textbooks for the iPad. One of the company’s breakthrough offerings, as mentioned in a Bloomberg/Businessweek feature, is called Brooker Biology which features a 3D diagram of [...]

Giving WSJ’s Henninger a Mulligan…

The headline of the Opinion piece (Of Mulligans and McIlroy’s Miracle: Politics is the mulligan that put us $14.3 trillion in debt.) in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday caught my eye. Eagerly I read looking for the mulligan connection. Alas, towards the end, this paragraph appeared: “Perhaps this is why politicians play so much [...]

Stop Apologizing Already: We Admire Your Spirit & Civic Pride…

San Francisco Chronicle writer, Scott Ostler named Vancouver ‘Fans’ the Knucklehead of the Week. Glad to see that he put single quotation marks around the word fan because the group of troublemakers that took over the streets of downtown Vancouver after the Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night certainly were not hockey [...]

HBO’s Treme: Food Focus, Art Imitating Life…

Last Sunday in The New York Times, there was an interesting story about how the focus on food in this season’s HBO show “Treme.” One of the story lines this year follows a New Orleans chef, Janette Desautel, as she tries to make a go of it in New York (post Katrina, Desautel’s, her New [...]

Audi Helps Put LeMans Endurance Race in Perspective…

Two time LeMans winner Allan McNish appears in Audi’s first 3D ad in the U.K., “A Day in the Life of an Audi Driver.” The spot, directed by Passion Pictures’ Chris Hemming and featuring illustration by Tim Marrs, premiered on Saturday May 28 before ITV’s coverage of the Champions Final between Audi-sponsored Man United and [...]

Pearls on Career Path…

Today’s Pearls Before Swine strip is a keeper.  Anyone who has worked a corporate job with that feeling that “there’s more to life than this,” can relate. ###

30 Ballparks in 35 Days? A Computer-Aided Roadtrip…

A story in The Wall Street Journal’s Sports section (yes, they have one) caught my eye. Written by Jared Diamond, it talked about a summer road trip where a fan can visit the ballparks of all 30 Major League Baseball teams in a mere 35 days. Sound exhausting, right? Think about how mind boggling it [...]

Punchy Gets a Refresh…

At first I was taken aback that there had been changes to Punchy — the spokes-mascot for Hawaiian Punch. According to this story, the new refreshed Punchy now features the hang-ten hand gesture instead of a punch and will portray a more energetic and playful personality than the feisty attitude that he first personified. After [...]

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