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The movie Apollo 18. I watched it On Demand. It wasn't a terrible movie, but the "found footage" format was really annoying to me. I also would have appreciated more information about the moon critters.
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In The Song of Ice and Fire, the Seven is the collective proper noun for the gods of the primary religion of Westeros. They are The Father, The Mother, The Maiden, The Warrior, The Smith, The Crone, and The Stranger.
Seven is a very popular number, though, so it probably refers to a lot of other things, too. But the Seven of the Westerosi religion is the first thing I thought of. -
On both counts the answer is 'no.' I have a very low opinion of the Occupy protests.
Whatever valid points they had to make about the way our elected officials sell our freedoms and rights to the highest bidder, those were/are drown out by all their other demands to have our liberty further eroded.
I also question this practice of camping out for indefinite periods of time in parks in order to draw attention to your cause. It strikes me as really stupid. And that's ignoring the fact that they did this frequently in conjunction with violating the property rights of private individuals. -
At first, I was just going to say, "Meh," but I think this warrants a bit more explanation.
First of all, i don't think about those websites because you only just now told me about them and I hadn't seen them before. Although, I have seen the website "Tap that guy" where people take pictures of hot guys they see in public and post them for others to admire. I assume the premise is the same. What I think about such sites is, "Meh."
I mean, I totally approve of people looking sexy. But if you're wandering around out in public, people will see you. Some people might take your picture. That doesn't constitute creepy in itself. I mean, it's not like they're taking the picture from outside of your bedroom window... and you live in the fifth floor. THAT is creepy.
But I really think we are in the early stages of a fairly big societal shift, one in which our ideas about personal privacy are challenged at their core
Think about how much communication we engage in every single day that is written and EASILY share with others or made public. Email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, text messages, instant messaging, website comments, etc. Furthermore, think about what the internet really IS. (It is not a truck.) When you access a website, you are making requests for data and accepting said data from other computers. And in the process of getting to and from your computer information to and from those other computers, that information passes through other computers.
And yet people think it's "creepy" when other people know what they do on the internets.
If, in order to get to your friend's house, you had to pass through my living room, can you imagine being upset by me telling other people that you went through my house? That would be ridiculous. But when people on the internets, they get all upset when they learn that their activity is being watched by third parties.
User privacy is a big issue these days, but I think I change is coming in how we view both out real-life activity and our online activity.
Pretty much everyone has a camera phone that takes pictures and video. And by using cookies and tracking tags, site owners can keep track of what you do on their web properties. The internet experience is a bit abstract even if the analogy works. I think people are going to become less sensitive to the idea that they are being watched when they're out in public.
And if they aren't less sensitive to it already, they need to work on that. Because, seriously, you're being watched. It may not be Big Brother, but you're being watched. -
I'm actually not opposed to using cheat apps so long as the folks playing the game together agree that it is acceptable. But the more common convention is to assume that such tools are not being used. So, you have to get permission from your opponent first. And if you do that, I don't think you need to provide any rationalization for your desire to use such apps.
I am skeptical about the excuse that using such tools helps you improve your vocabulary since those tools frequently do not come with definitions next to the words they suggest and because unusual words are not valuable knowledge in themselves. They need to be useful in some way; I am not an advocate of just sitting around and trying to soak up new information for the sake of having information. But that's really your business if you want to do that. -
Yeah, I had to do a bit of searching and ended up getting three of the prints from one vendor and the fourth from a separate one. I am not sure why this happens, but it's pretty common to see series like this broken up.
Mucha is very popular, so I would recommend trying sites like:
Art.com
masterprints.com
allposters.com
You can even go to your local frame shops and ask if they have any catalogs for fine art prints. Tell them what you're looking for and they may be able to find it for you -- and they would be happy to frame it as well! -
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My mama raise me right. That's how.
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No, I haven't seen that. I don't think my roommate and I signed up for the cable package that has LOGO in it. *shrug*
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Oscar the Grouch
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hmmm... That's a tough question. I didn't come to my career via a direct line like that. In fact, if you had asked me at the beginning if I wanted to work in marketing, I probably would have said no. When I was getting my MBA, marketing was among my least favorite classes.
But I ended up taking a second look and realizing that there is a lot in the field that interests me.
I also still think of myself as being rather young in my career and with limited exposure to great swaths of the marketing world. Marketing, as you probably already know, is an extremely broad topic.
If you pressed me today to provide you with some recommendations for how to approach your career, I would probably say:
1) Stay in touch with technology. There are things happening right now that are changing the way marketers approach their discipline. Brand marketers used to rule the roost, so to speak, but they're waking up to some of the methodological advantages that direct marketers have been using for the past 30 years -- because technology is giving them the tools to do it. So, I think there's a change in mindset that is coming to marketing.
2) Try new things. Reach out and try to stay in touch with areas of marketing that aren't currently in your area. And if you can actually take a job in some of those areas, I think it would be educational and help you think beyond whatever box you're in at the moment.
3) Never forget the customer. Embrace the customer. I don't know why I feel compelled to say this except that I see so many bad marketing efforts that annoy customers. A good example was the rant about product placement that Diana and others went on during the Rationally Selfish Radio webcast this weekend. http://blog.dianahsieh.com/2011/10/noodlecast-100-live-rationally-selfish.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter Another example of forgetting the customer is the way attempts to harness social media have been marked by some colossal fails.
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I think this is MUCH better!
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If you're being ironic, then yes.
If not, then I would recommend that you monitor your symptoms and if it gets worse seek treatment. For instance, if you one day climbed into some skinny jeans, grew some ugly facial hair, and took that typewriter down to your locally-owned, fair trade, organic coffee shop where you sipped on Chai Tea and worked on re-writing the lyrics to commercial jingles to quotes by Proust, then you would be an irredeemable hipster.
But by itself, no, an old typewriter will not make you a hipster. -
Because many letters sound very similar one another and if you can't see someone's mouth moving or hear them very well -- as might be the case for a bad phone or radio connection -- it helps if they can make the distinction more clear.
For example, my last name is spelt P-E-D-E-N and over the phone most people need me to provide the phonetic alphabet spelling to be sure they get it right: Papa, Echo, Delta, Echo, November. -
I guess it depends on what you mean by "right." If you think might makes right, then it's important to note that they do hold the guns.
But if you're asking me if censorship of this nature is a legitimate function of the government, then I would say, 'no, it is not.'
I think it might be an interesting question, though, for those interested in sticky questions of political science, to see if there are any legitimate and proper situations where the government might censor materials from public consumption. I am inclined to believe there are, but I find myself at this moment unable to articulate a comprehensive principle to justify that belief. -
Your part should be on the left. I wish I could remember the source, but I heard some time ago that parting your hair to the right is generally regarded as being more attractive than parting it to the left because humans have some sort of right-side bias in their brains or something.
Anyway, if you're going to part your hair, make it so that your hair sweeps toward the right. It's just better. -
I have no idea what you're talking about right now.
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Short pants are something I've only reluctantly gotten back into wearing in the past few years. Generally, I regard them as clothing for little boys, but I cannot deny the simple comfort they offer. And if they're properly designed, they don't look back, either.
Two or three summers ago, men in NYC took to wearing shorts that were not just cut above the knee, but several inches above the knee; to the point where when sitting down they appeared to be wearing square-cut speedos or shorts more suitable for a lady. I could never go that far, but above the knee does seem appropriate. I would say two or three inches is plenty.
I will tell you this: I hate hate hate hate those ginormous basketball shorts that I see all over the place. These are those shorts made of plastic that extend down to the mid-point of the calf. Some people wear them so long that if the legs were tailored to be more narrow, they would constitute capris pants. They just look sloppy and inappropriate. (The inappropriate part might come from the fact that so many of these men are usually wearing boxer shorts, which with the sheer cloth of the shorts leaves little to the imagination.)
By the way, I have never endorsed "manpris" and I still think they're dumb, even though I do think it is fine for a man to roll linen pants up a bit so that they're effectively the same thing. -
I really did meet her. And it was fine. She was totally sweet and fun.
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Trey Peden’s Bio
Gay Objectivist Marketing Professional living in NYC. Don't step in my derring do.
