Working on a Friday is sometimes a bit stressful but fun at the same time. Anywho, TGIF everyone. Have a safe and great October(fest) weekend!
Note: This is the first picture I took using my new cellphone (Motorola V551). Pretty cool considering its not even a MP-camera =(
Just got a word from Cicely that Redondo Beach is hosting their Annual Lobster Festival this weekend. Damn, too bad I can’t have a copy of myself go there. As L-boogie would say:
“Two MCs can’t occupy the same space at the same time …it’s against the laws of physics” ~Lauryn Hill, The Score — Zealots
Anyways, for those going, make sure to eat a small breakfast to expand your stomachs. So you can get as much lobster as possible during the fest. Damn, mmm mmm mmm—lobster!
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Basecamp is a web-based tool that lets you manage and track projects (or simply ideas) and quickly create client/project extranets.
“NO RISK FREE TRIAL?” I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me. But this thing is making me bug out. Maybe its the handful of hours I spent doing ads with this kinda copy/text on it. I know them marketers are really crucial in wording their babies.
I mean, “Content is king” to them. Even if it looks out of place, or out of proportion, they don’t care where it goes as long as its big and right on the audiences’ face. Other than that, they just churn their rolodex and make calls to their contacts. I guess its all about the commission—they get bank.
Meanwhile, back to the word-play in the Basecamp ad. I saw this ad in a site I frequent for design news and other stuff. It didn’t hit me at first till I took a closer look at it. I couldn’t just shake it off, you know?
Its like having the TP on backwards so that it wouldn’t “waterfall” the right way. I just hate seeing it anywhere that I literally change it the way it should’ve been in the first place. Just a pet peeve of mine amongst other small stuff. Anyone else have this on their list?
Anyways, I got a couple of things when I saw this copy: “NO RISK FREE TRIAL.” First, it can mean “NO RISK-FREE TRIAL”—which sounds really evil. Its like, try our product that I’m selling and oh BTW, if you get some growth on your neck we’re not to blame. I mean c’mon, just a major sales deterrent that can just close a business out.
The second meaning that I get sounds right. “NO-RISK FREE TRIAL.” Sounds better don’t it? Not only are you getting a free trial, there’s also no-risk to doing it. Two major selling point that can bring the dough from rolling in.
I guess it was just an oversight by someone over at the Marketing department. With the successful products that 37Signals have been rolling out lately (i.e. Basecamp, Backpack and Ta-da List) to complement the next version of the Web (aka. Web 2.0), this might just have been a freak of nature. Either that, or the designer just did his/her thing—design. I probably have done something like this in that past, to make things look “right”. After all, “beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.”
This past weekend, I saw the light. At least it turning off on my cellphone. I had the LG 4050 for almost 2 years now. I had suffered with it after the first year because of its crappy software. Never really got the time to go to a Cingular store and have them update it cause they phased it out after a couple of months from its release.
So, being the trooper, I decided to just suck it up. But this past weekend, it just started bugging out. Meanwhile, inquiring with the homies and their phones, I decided between the following:
The top pick was the Motorolla v551. Got it for $150 at BestBuy. Slapped on a 2-year Performance Service Plan for about $40. With the addition of tax, it came out to about $203.11.
Now I know you might think that thats waaaay too much for a cellphone. But the fact is, I use my BB store credit card. What does that mean? Well, low monthly payments and no interest for 6-months. I got the 2-year PSP just in case something goes wrong with it. I use to like Cingular’s warranty thing but since a lot of people took advantage of it, they changed it so that you pretty much have to pay extra once you get a replacement phone.
Anyways, I’m pretty stoked while playing around with the features on this phone. Then decided that I’ll probably give it a go and try it out; and if I don’t like it, just return it within 30-days. So I started transferring my contacts between phones.
I have an old 32k sim card (which needs to be upgraded by Cingular), so I had about 60+ numbers on the LG’s memory. I transferred and copied from the SIM to the v551 first. That went well. I then deleted the SIM card to make room and transfer the remaining numbers from the LG to it.
After doing that, I slapped it on to the v551 and started the process of dumping the other 60+ to the phone. Meanwhile, I guess I forgot that I was trying on the Alarm Clock feature (or something else), so while on the copy process of the phone, it exited out of that screen and onto the alarm. Blah!
So there you go, from 250+ numbers to about 59. *sigh*
If you are reading this, just assume that I don’t have your contact number. Please go ahead and shoot me an email with your number(s).
From my mind to yours, technology can sometimes be time-consuming rather than productive.
…as well Hans. Oh yah, mine too! Woohoo! Stop by Forbidden City (Hollywood) later tonight if you can.
