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This Will Only Take a Second...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:08 AM

Compliments of Idea Sandbox and friends over at another forum I frequent.

You know, I've done work for Burger King in the past, and I kind of know how their advertising and marketing processes are. They go through agencies like some people go through hairstyles; it almost feels like they're using a different advertising agency every six months or so.

But, even so, there is a certain level of executive review before anything the agencies do goes public.

So imagine some board room in South Florida (I know where the BK offices are; I see them almost daily), where all the top marketing executives are sitting around, looking at this new promotion and think "hey... this is BRILLIANT! Send it off to the press immediately!"

Uh... No.

The blog linked above covers most of the highlights, but I don't think anyone needs to read very much after looking at the horrified look on the poor onion. And, looking at the poor onion and the terminal security agent donning the purple glove, you are distracted from seeing the child dangling precariously from the second floor walkway.

But, you know, this advertising might actually be working, 'cause I can't think of anything else other than wanting to go to a Burger King RIGHT NOW and see if they have these things.

Now I know what you're thinking... this can't be real, right? Well... Need more proof?

OK, how 'bout Monsters hacking at bloody fruit with machetes?

Or the The pickle hookers?

Or the Onion sniper?

Well the New Years Eve one isn't bad. Well, except for the tomato blowing his hand off front and center...

Congratulate .start for this wonderful artwork. Yeah, it's in their ".work" section too, if you're wondering. Guess things work differently in Munich...

/facepalm

Posted by David "Nighthawk" Flor on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:08 AM

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Back... only not.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:38 AM

Hurricane missed Miami, but that doesn't stop things from getting complicated around here.

1) I'm without power at home. Apparently the non-hurricane decided to take out power to my city block as there is power in the stores just down the street.

2) Office called me at 7:30AM to tell me not to come in because of a tornado warning in Palm Beach County. And I was already in transit (30 minutes in to my 3 hour commute).

3) The local Kinko's (now called "FedEx Office") doesn't open until later.

4) My T-Mobile wireless subscription apparently expired last night. It seems to be common for me to have things expire when hurricanes are near; my car insurance expired at midnight the day Hurricane Andrew hit. My car got thrashed, and since they couldn't prove if it happened before or after midnight (official time of Hurricane Andrew was 8PM-6AM), they covered it. Oh, did I mention two days after Andrew I had to drive ten miles to work down the expressway without a front windshield?

Right now I'm working at a Starbucks.

As far as the gsme, the next step is almost ready to be taken. Things should be moving along later tonight. Thank you for your patience, and I apologize for the inconvenience.

Finally, I am so not use to this laptop's keyboard; I'm spelling every other word wrong.

Posted by David "Nighthawk" Flor on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:38 AM

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Holy Crap!
Monday, August 18, 2008 1:07 PM

I'd like to thank the Academy for this award...

And, guys, I really appreciate referring to me in the plural sense. I really do. :)

Well, no major meteorological cataclysm here as Hurricane Fay decided to thrash Key West, Tampa and the West coast of Florida for the time being. Weather here still sucks, and I have to be ever vigilant on whether Tri-Rail decides to shut down service or not, but at least I didn't spend the day putting up shutters.

On a side note, I have been reunited with my new laptop and am currently testing the next round of updates; give me a day or two and the ball should really be rolling. Also, I'm doing my damnest to plan ahead as best I could so that any future delays don't have the impact this one did.

Thanks for your patience.

Posted by David "Nighthawk" Flor on Monday, August 18, 2008 1:07 PM

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Winds of Despair
Sunday, August 17, 2008 11:48 AM

Somebody up there *really* doesn't like me...

We have no idea where this thing is going to go, but odds are I won't be going to work tomorrow simply because I can't. If the winds get higher than 30+MPH, MetroRail and Tri-Rail both shut down service; I've always found that rather odd considering that it's gonna take a lot more than a 30MPH wind to knock around a fifty ton locomotive, but it's best that they error on the side of caution I guess.

And this, if you haven't realized it yet, is occuring on my birthday. Lucky me to be an August baby, 'cause I get to share the time around my birthday with major atmospheric cataclysms. I had turned 21 years old less than a week before Hurricane Andrew decide to rip through South Florida, and that was far from entertaining.

So what will I spend my day doing? Most probably waiting in line for water and batteries, putting up shutters, etc... You know, the usual birthday stuff.

Thing about hurricanes is that they can go either way; there's never a "so so" hurricane. Either nothing happens and you pretend that it never happened or you're without power for a week. Hurricane Wilma was supposed to blow over us without even a whimper, and we all know how that went; I was without power for a week and I know of places that still had debris lying around until January (I'm talking strictly about the Florida experience for Hurricane Wilma, which of course pales in comparison to what New Orleans went through).

Anyway, we have to deal with this minute by minute. Let's see how things go. Hey, at least I have a real excuse for delaying the launch again... ;)

Posted by David "Nighthawk" Flor on Sunday, August 17, 2008 11:48 AM

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Crossing Over
Sunday, August 17, 2008 9:22 AM

So I spent the greater part of my afternoon yesterday looking for a Windows XP CD, in the hopes that I can get this Vaio up and running. I found half a dozen Vista CDs but no XP, and I didn't want to go through a Vista install for fear of the typical "driver hell" that accompanies any Microsoft Windows install (especially when Sony Vaio machines are notorious for having hard to find drivers).

So instead of finding a Windows XP CD, I did find something else: an Ububtu Linux CD.

"This can't be worse than what I have now... can it?"

I haven't used Ubuntu in a long time, and when I did it was for server systems - mail servers, specifically - and not as a daily use operating system. On my old laptop I also had an install of it as a VMWare image, but I don't remember the last time I used it.

First off, I could run the OS from the CD without actually installing it, which allowed me to get online for a brief bit. It creates a virtual hard drive of your current memory, but since this machine doesn't have much memory to begin with (512K) it wasn't very practical. Also, things like LogMeIn required the JRE, which doesn't come natively installed.

So I bit the bullet, did a full "drive wipe" of this machine, and installed it.

"Driver hell"? What's that? This OS is quite impressive in that regard: without me having to jump through hoops, it auto-detected and got working the wireless network adapter, allowing me to connect via TMobile wireless instantly. Also it seems to know everything about this machine, including details on the battery life. I can't imagine a Windows install being this easy; I can picture myself now looking deep in a drawer for the Sony CDs because Windows couldn't identify the CD-ROM, for example.

Now obviously this isn't a practical long term solution for me, especially considering there is no Visual Studio and my websites won't run on this OS (no, I'm not going to try the .NET options on this thing; that feels... unnatural). But it does serve nicely as a "disaster recovery" environment in case all else fails (which it has, for all practical sense).

And, besides, it's a pretty interface...

Posted by David "Nighthawk" Flor on Sunday, August 17, 2008 9:22 AM

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