17 Sep 11 Little Johnny’s Government
The kids filed back into class Monday morning. They were very excited. Their weekend assignment had been to sell something, then give a talk on productive salesmanship.
Little Sally led off:
“I sold girl scout cookies and I made $30,” she said proudly, “My sales approach was to appeal to the customer’s civil spirit and I credit that approach for my obvious success.”
“Very good,” said the teacher.
Little Mary was next:
“I sold magazines,” she said, “I made $45 and I explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current events.”
“Very good, Mary,” said the teacher.
Eventually, it was Little Johnny’s turn. The teacher held her breath…
Little Johnny walked to the front of the classroom and dumped a box full of cash on the teacher’s desk. “$2,467″ he said.
“$2,467!” cried the teacher, “What in the world were you selling?”
“Toothbrushes,” said Little Johnny.
“Toothbrushes!” echoed the teacher, “How could you possibly sell
enough toothbrushes to make that much money?”
“I found the busiest corner in town,” said Little Johnny, “I set up a Dip & Chip stand and gave everybody who walked by a free sample.”
They all said the same thing, “Hey, this tastes like dog shit!”
Then I would say, “It is dog shit. Wanna buy a toothbrush?”
“I used the government approach of giving you something crappy for free, and then making you pay to get the taste out of your mouth.”
Tags: current events, dog shit, girl scout cookies, government approach, monday morning, sales approach, salesmanship, toothbrush
25 Aug 08 Jaiku
Jaiku has been down all weekend. I looked about five minutes ago (10am Monday morning here), and it’s still down.
Strange thing is, I’ve heard barely a murmur about it, unlike when Twitter is even out for a hour or so.
Now I’d expect Twitter, which still needs to find some way to monetize the service, to be more likely to have periods of outage, than Jaiku, which is owned by Google.
Although there seems to have been somewhat of a Twitter hate campaign of late, it’s obviously still popular. Jaiku on the other hand is still (to my knowledge) still in limited ‘invite only’ beta, and therefore still relatively unused.
It seems to be the way of apps that get swallowed up by Google. Everyone waits with bated breath for new features and integration, and it doesn’t happen – well not for months and months at least.
Don’t get me started on Grand Central now.
Tags: apps, bated breath, five minutes, google, hate campaign, jaiku, monday morning, murmur, new features, periods, strange thing, twitter
22 May 08 The Week Flies By
It’s already Thursday, isn’t it? I think so. Heck the days fly by so quick, that it’s difficult to keep up sometimes. I don’t really have a demarcation between weekday and weekend, so it’s perhaps sometimes more of a blur.
One good thing is that I don’t get that Monday morning feeling really, although having said that, I do seem to get more phone calls on a Monday morning, after the weekend computer gremlins have been out to play.
It sure seems that way quite often anyhow. Everything is OK on a Friday night, and all gone west by Monday Morning. Sometimes I feel like getting in the car and heading west too.
Not really, although I do keep promising myself a coast to coast road trip one fine day. One fine day, when I have the money, and more to the point, when I have the time!
You see, not only do the days seem to fly by, but the hours do as well, and no sooner am I started on something than I’ve been at it for hours.
Still, I’m not one to be able to sit about and do nothing. Oh, I’m good at sitting about, too darn good at that really, but sitting about doing nothing? No. I have to be engaging my brain in something – a good book – usually something historic or scientific – or some music.
So, back to a very old concept, one that has often been used in the workplace, and some music while I work.
Tags: blur, brain, computer gremlins, demarcation, fly, friday night, heck, monday morning, money, Music, one fine day, phone calls, road trip, weekday, weekend computer
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