Several of my friends’ blogs on my linklist could really go for an update. I know that it’s not their job to appease me with daily updates but I appreciate every bit of correspondence I can get. I could point out/push others but today I’m going to focus on one friend in particular: Fisherpriceman.
You sir are quite busy, I’m sure, but we’d all love an update. As a challenge for calling you out, I’m going to finally offer something promised long ago. I don’t know if you have the time right now for working out but I promised you a workout mix. I will deliver that on my site when you give the world an update on yourself.
In going with the Fisherpriceman theme, I’ll present a question for everyone to read but few to actually respond.
This weekend some older relatives brought up how they just use the Internet to get directions to places and how great it is. I was glad to hear the unnaturalized Internet citizens adopting online map technology. Recently my dad and I were discussing my childhood trip to Alaska in detail. He refused to look at Google Maps because he preferred the “good ol’ atlas.” He found the general area of what we were talking about more quickly than I could but then he was stuck. He pointed at a green blob and said “I think it was there.” I scrolled the wheel in a little closer on Google Maps and was able to determine that it in fact was that place. He still won’t make the switch until Google Maps allows him to watch Celtic music videos at the same time.
J and I had GPS along for our trip out west and that combined with 800-GOOG-411 (use this!!), we pretty much functioned as well as we could without an iPhone. This weekend I was lucky enough to have to guide my road-weary brothers to an unknown location using Google Maps printouts over the phone. It seemed so backwards to me. I felt like AAA had some business being in the trip planning business after all.
The aforementioned relatives were listing their website of choice and I heard the usual Google Maps competitors thrown out there: Yahoo! Maps, Mapquest etc. But then I had to wonder how one even arrives at this option: RandMcNally.com. (?)?!
With all the options in getting there, am I crazy to think someone visiting RandMcNally.com or Mapquest is going about it the wrong way? Or am I just a snob that should go back to my Firefox and Weather Underground and keep my mouth shut (which is what I did, until now)?
I do loves me some Iowa City in the summertime. It’s such an awesome town but I’d sure wish more people would stick around so I could enjoy it with them. At least Weebsington3000 can ogle summer students with me.
Mr. Used to Teach Now Ambassadors left IC for DC and then Jimbobwe or Oblivia. I just dropped the Lady off for her stint in California. And in less than a month, my little (make that younger) brother is leaving for the republic of Georgia for 27 months!
My brother joined the Peace Corps and that is his assignment. I was very shocked when I found out because that’s a huge commitment. At the risk of sounding fatherly and/or condescending, I’m very proud of him for it. In a time when “patriotism” seems to be just people talking about their country. We need people like my brother and Fisherpriceman out there showing what America’s really about.
So I’m out a brother, a lovely wife and a close friend, but this might be the biggest shock of them all:
I did some investigative work. They are “closed for renovations”* and are keeping the same management. They will reopen in the fall but with a different menu (different restaurant then). I made a suggestion of donuts but I don’t know if the demolition kid will pass my suggestion on to the owner.
* This is normally Iowa City-speak for “we violated our liquor license.” (I’m looking at you Skybox/Top Dog’s.) I can’t imagine Baldy’s violating a liquor license if they had one.
I’m on vacation with the Lady in California, hence the no monthly mix by normal deadline. I will be posting that and a possible vacation wrapup when I return but I had to get this out there while it was happening.
I’m watching the NBA playoffs hoping for a Pistons-Cavs and Jazz-Hornets matchup and I don’t have my handy DVR to avoid the commercials. So I’ve been seeing these WNBA commercials trying to guilt me into watching their games. To borrow a line from WNBA marketing, “no offense” WNBA, but the (Men’s)NBA is having trouble getting people to watch their games and they’re good at basketball.
Your methods of marketing are short-sighted and I have a few suggestions (although I wouldn’t mind watching your league go the way of the synthetic NBA ball). First, baseball and football have seen a huge boost from fantasy versions of their league. I recommend adopting fantasy teams that track things like blocks, assists and near-dunks. Second, as previously mentioned, I learned a lot about baseball through baseball cards. May I suggest WNBA cards? My dad could then put them in order by attractiveness, instead of b-ball stats. Candice Parker on top of course.
Lastly, my knowledge of 90s basketball came mostly from NBA Jam and NBA Live 95. Promote this more:
