Posts from — December 2007

Quick exercise for you, dear reader.  Go to the UK Google:

www.google.co.uk

Enter, "i’ve never heard of led zeppelin" and hit "I’m feeling lucky."  I’ll wait for you to get back.

Short trip, right?  Like a good narcissistic blogger, I was looking through my referral logs and saw a weird hit from Google UK.  Evidentially the Brits don’t think I’ve heard of Led Zeppelin.

I love my co-workers.  A week or so ago, I mentioned my wife wanted to get a Wii since they looked like a video game she’d actually have fun playing.  We weren’t about to fork out the cash on eBay for one, but if we could get one for retail, we’d get it.

Crappy Blackjack Cameraphone Pic

Fast forward to today - I got a call from one of my coworker out running an errand at Best Buy and they had one in stock.  Looks like game-on this Christmas!  Just need to figure out how many controllers come in the box and what else we’re going to need.

Update - The state of the site is a bit in flux right now, and my announcement may have been a bit premature. Sorry for the confusion

Two images to show this retailer has no clue:

The first was on Gothamist this past weekend:

The second was posted on Seth Godin’s blog yesterday:

Judging by the signage, this is the same store which Gothamist says is one of the Balducci’s.  I’m not Jewish, but even I know that pork isn’t exactly going to sell very well during Chanukah.

I missed this video from about a month ago, but since I still seem to rank pretty high in searches related to the Thomas Recall I thought I’d pass it on.  ABC News followed RC2 CEO Kurt Stoelting to their plant in Chinato show what they are doing to ensure the lead paint fiasco of this past summer.  It includes things like better paint testing of paint when it comes in the factory and clearer labeling so factory workers know what paint has been approved for use.  Learning Curve (the RC2 subsidiary who puts out the Thomas trains) has their full system outlined on their website.

I for one can guarantee that Santa will probably be bringing some new friends from the Island of Sodor to our house. I’m really not worried about more paint from RC2, mainly because they got hurt so hard the first time, they can’t afford to screw up again.