Approximately three minutes after Michigan State beat Louisville, I received this in my inbox:
“Go Green! Final Four- Yes!”
Straight and to the point - for what may be the first time in her email history.
<3 Brenda and MSU! 
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Emails from Brenda: Go State!
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
A harsh reminder
Saturday, March 28th, 2009That spring may be here but mother nature cares nothing for mere calendars… It’s like 35° out.
Naked People
Friday, March 27th, 2009Usually when you think, “I wonder what they’d look like naked?” you’re referencing a hot hoe. But c’mon, curiosity kills. Check out peeps nakey from all walks of life:
via Josh Spear
Emails from Brenda: A Preview
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Tony, with his Texts from Patti series, has inspired me to create my own - Emails from Brenda.
Emails from Brenda will share the latest and greatest things my mom decides to email me about. Most often those include American Idol commentary, what she bought at Target and how much of a bargain her latest purchase was.
I’ll leave you with this to get you excited:
“The post office now has rates that not only take in to account the weight, but also the dimensions of the envelope. For instance I found out that padded envelopes have to go as packages because of their thickness. Weird.”
“Twitter Spam”
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Sometimes after I post on twitter, I’ll get 3-4 new followers who seemingly have:
- zero or only 1 tweet
- TONS of “following” and very few “followers”
- Generic profile info, or a picture of a hot girl
I’m not a stranger to spam, scams, or shams, but this is either the dumbest idea spammers have ever had, or the smartest.
On one hand, it could be that spammers are not really grasping the concept of twitter. Spammers can follow me all they want; doesn’t mean I’m going to read their posts or follow them. You have to follow someone to get their “advertised tweets;” their followers-to-following ratio is far too low to impact anyone.
On the other hand, it could be onto some marketing genius. Maybe they’re spambots who aggregate the content of all the tweets they follow, profiling not only spam content for what are hot keywords, but also trolling for useful user data that someone may inadvertently post. It’s hard to tell if that’s happening; and even if it is, it’s nothing that couldn’t be done through brute force and data mining, but it’s enough to make me block the spammers when they add me.
Anyone know anything about these bot twitter users?
Meetings
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Meetings usually aren’t fun nor are they always productive. If they are neither, then you probably shouldn’t be having them. Seth Godin gives 9 ways to improve meetings at work. My favs:
-Create a public space (either a big piece of poster board or a simple online page) that allows attendees to rate meetings and their organizers on a scale of 1 to 5 in terms of usefulness. Just a simple box where everyone can write a number. Watch what happens.
-Remove all the chairs from the conference room.
Happy Birfday Colzies!
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009I probably should say, “happy belated birthday”. But, through the magic of retro publish dating, I bring you this timely birthday greeting.
I’d like to celebrate by issuing you this cake themed Fail Blog:
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Totes cabbin
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009The crew is hanging hard tonight.
Must’ve Been a Mean Jam Session
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Bravo Brammo
Monday, March 9th, 2009It’s totes obvi we need a change in transportation. If you live in the city, I’m fairly sure you don’t need an H2 but a Vespa doesn’t exactly scream bad ass, either.
Enter Brammo.
OK, so $11,000 base price is a bit steep for a bike. But check out these stats
- 0-30 mph in 3.8 seconds
- Top speed of 53 mph
- A single charge will let you travel 35 miles in urban traffic
- Recharge by plugging it into any standard US wall outlet
- Fully recharged in about 3 hours. 40 cents per charge or about 1 cent per mile
- The batteries are designed to last for 35,000 miles or about 10 years