About a year ago, I remember hearing someone make the comment: Netflix doesn’t need a marketing department. They just have millions of happy customers that won’t shut up about them. Well, those millions of customers still won’t shut up about them…except now they’re not quite so happy. The sad part is the 14-year-old Netflix managed [...]
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The Eloquence of Engrish
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
This was printed on a box of Farm House Multi-layer Radish Pies (which taste better than they sound): Preparing me chicken and rice, old friend, You entertain me at your farm. We watch the green trees that circle your village And the pale blue of outlying mountains. We open your window over garden and field, [...]
Downtown
Saturday, January 19, 2008
I had a dream last night that I was driving through downtown Fremont in a Flintstone’s-like foot powered car. The place looked nothing like how I remembered and yet everything was familiar to me, as often the case in dreams. People from my past lined the street – friends, people I went to school with, [...]
my annual blog post
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
I do it every year. Every year. Like clockwork, I start a new blog around this time with the resolution to blog more (among other unfulfilled resolutions). In my most prolific year, I believe I had four posts. Will this year be different? I don’t know, but it wouldn’t be a new year without this [...]