Posts Tagged ‘Holidays’

**UPDATE** I have awarded the 7 Google Wave invitations. Thanks to all who participated

The irony of it all. I have a couple friends saying they don’t have the invite. I can’t give them one because I didn’t get any. Then they get Wave and the next day BAM! I have invites. The stars are lined against me, better get back in bed.

Therefore, I have 7 invites to give (I earmarked one already). If you want an invite, all you have to do is comment on this thread. Comment what you want to get over the holidays. No one-liners. Give me a paragraph at least. Tell me why you want the item.And please don’t say “I want Google Wave for the holidays”.

Great comments will get their invite right away. Otherwise, next week I’ll give them away.

BTW – If someone already invited you to Google Wave, then you should probably wait for that. I already had someone ask and when I asked them if someone already gave a wave request, they said “Yeah, but I’m still waiting”. I waited 2 weeks after someone invited me.

BTW BTW – If you have Wave and want to just comment with what you want for the holidays, then let me know you do not want to be in the drawing on the comment.

BTW BTW BTW – By Retweeting, I give extra brownie points….

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You’ve been working at your job for years. You’ve made lots of money for the company and are the most loyal employee they know of. Yet, tough times are ahead and the company decides you are one of the 10% they have to let go to stay afloat. It’s a frustrating thing to have happen, but what are you gonna do?

Now let’s flip that: You are at your job and survive the cut, but now you are in the position to take up a part of that person who was laid off.

As companies like Intel and Google are looking at trimming the fat, it makes the average consumer wonder – what will our customer experience be without 10% of the workforce?

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I think I could put together an album that Simon Cowell could question. Maybe someday I will put together an album of me singing all the holiday favorites. Then again, maybe not.

So therefore I leave it up to Bitstrips to do that for me. This week we remember the old commercials we used to see about this time of year where Zamfir played the pan flute, Lawrence Welk conducted the Holiday album or even the barking dogs put together 12 tracks available on Album, cassette, 8-track or CD.

Maybe someday those commercials will come back. In the meantime, we can put together a rendition of it.

I remember the Holidays back in the 70’s and 80’s. It was a different time then. Phones were wired at the house, we all watched TV on a 20” CRT monitor, and video games were on an Atari, NES or SEGA system. Cars ran on Regular (til  the early 80’s) or Unleaded and sometimes Diesel. You spent about 20 minutes outside warming up and scraping off the car. Albums were on CD. And all your Spam came in letter format, through Magazines or TV commercial.

Does anyone remember the onslaught of Ronco products, Patsy Cline and Zamfir album commercials? Send only 9.99 plus S&H to the address on your screen? They were only a minute long. Not 30. Remember flipping through 3-4 channels and watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” on all of them Christmas eve? Read the rest of this entry »