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I’m On a Mac
via youtube.com
Favorite part: the floating Woz head.
Can’t Starbucks Do Better Than Paper Coupons?
Starbucks recently sent an email to all members of their soon to be discontinued Starbucks Gold program explaining the new My Starbucks Rewards program we’ll be switched to on January 6th. From the email:
Every time you use your new Gold Level Starbucks Card, you earn a Star. And every 15 Stars, we’ll send you a coupon for a free drink.
Send out a coupon by mail? That seems inefficient and worse, wasteful. Even if we’re talking email the coupon would still have to be printed. Allowing the cashier to notify the customer that their next drink is free when 14 drinks are reached seems a much better solution. Even the old school method of punching out visits on a single membership card would be preferable.
For a company that at least attempts to give the appearance of trying to be decent this seems like a step in the wrong direction.
Acquainted with the Night – Robert Frost
Acquainted with the Night
by: Robert FrostI have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain — and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
O luminary clock against the skyProclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.From “New Hampshire”, 1923
via internal.org
My mother’s favorite poet has always been Robert Frost. The only poem I was familiar with was Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.
After finding Acquainted with the Night, I better understand what she sees in his poetry. Hauntingly beautiful.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Stick, Recently Inducted Into the Toy Hall of Fame, Is Now Available at Amazon.com.
We ordered two Sticks for our daughter, so she could use them as arms for her snowman. Unfortunately, when we opened one of the boxes, we found The Stick infested with termites. Although it’s possible this happened during shipping, the makers of The Stick agreed to send us a replacement. Winters are long in Maine, but it’s been three weeks and we’re still waiting. Meanwhile, the snowman stands out in the yard with only one arm. My husband thinks we should snap the good Stick in half to make two stubby arms, but I don’t think our daughter deserves that. Neither do consumers.
via mcsweeneys.net
When I was a kid I used a stick as a gun, a rocket ship, and a baseball bat among other things. Something to be said for the flexibility of the old school stick. No, never had to buy a stick, but I never bought water when I was a kid either. So you never know.
Merry Christmas Stanley
via blip.tv
I started watching this video at Starbucks. I stopped halfway through to watch the rest at home. I have my rep, ya know.
Merry Christmas Stanley. I wish you were my dog.