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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Now That Your Recession Is Over …
In addition to buying your significant other a Diamond-Tini, you can buy yourself a Gundam Fixed Platinum. A 13 cm, 1,400 gram miniature of Japan’s famous animated robot “Gundam”, this little fellow is made of pure platinum and at today’s prices would go for over $41,000.
Actually, with today’s steadily increasing mineral and metal prices, this may not be a bad investment …
Web 2.0 Redefined
MC Hammer, probably better known for his golden sparkle shirt and parachute pants (and squandering through his thirty million dollar fortune) than his pop-rap, got a new job earlier this month: Web 2.0 Expert! TechCrunch20, the conference which alleges to put a sense of merit back into startup conferences, has declared MC Hammer a Web 2.0 Expert and put him on the panel of judges.
While good news for Hammer, it could be bad news for Web 2.0. After all, Hammer-Time came with an expiry date.
More Kudos to The Cynical Sourcerer for another assist!
CombineNet IX: Interlude – We Can Optimize Anything
CombineNet is on a quest to conquer the Optimization World! Hopefully I’ll be able to post more details soon, but for now, let’s just say that it sounds like their new slogan is “We Can Optimize Anything“. To that end, I hereby proffer* the following for their new theme song (assuming, of course, that they can get the musical rights from the Tragically Hip for Blow at High Dough).
They had a problem once … in my home town
Everybody affected … from miles around
Energy crisis … not enough silver bling
Well we ain’t no day traders, but we can optimize anything
Get it out .. get it all out
We’ll stretch that bling
Make it last, we make it last
To well beyond the market bell rings
Well the stock-car driver likes his rhythm,
never likes the stops
Throes of passion, Throes of passion
When something just throws him off
Sometimes .. the faster it gets
The less you need to know
But you gotta remember
The smarter it gets, the further it’s going to go
When you optimize so
When you optimize so
Whoa baby you’ll feel fine
You can trust that it’s genuine
Dollars and Cents, Saves Dollars and Cents
Yeah, Every time you optimize
Nobody solves it as good as we do
It is one kick-ass tool
‘Cause we solve so fast, solve so fast
Makes everybody drool
Sometimes .. the faster it gets
The less you need to know
But you gotta remember
The smarter it gets, the further it’s going to go
When you optimize so
When you optimize so
Out in the market, same Elvis thing
But they can’t catch us, ’cause we can optimize anything
‘Cause we can optimize anything
Sometimes .. the faster it gets
The less you need to know
But you gotta remember
The smarter it gets, the further it’s going to go
When you optimize so
When you optimize so
Out in the market, same Elvis thing
* Copyright 2007. All rights reserved.
Getting Fit With T.G.I. Friday’s
Whereas most restaurants believe, like the American School System, that when it comes to calories, the more the merrier, T.G.I. Friday’s, as noted in a recent Knowledge @ Wharton article, realizes that when it comes to healthy eating it is the right portion of the right food at the right price, not calories, that counts. As a result, they have introduced the “right portion, right price” menu where they have added six new smaller entrees to their line up that offer approximately one-third less food at one-third less cost.
Even though such a move has failed for other restaurants in the past, giving the nation’s well-recognized obesity problem, as partially documented in Super Size Me and Fast Food Nation, and the fact that Friday’s is reducing prices as well as portions, there’s a decent chance that such an initiative could work out well for Friday’s, especially since they are still offering regular sized offerings at the same price.
Besides, when you note that eating is both a taste sensation and a visual experience, there is a good chance that you can always counter the American belief that “more is better” with an appropriate presentation, as some of the finer restaurants do in bigger cities. After all, recent studies (referenced in the article) have dictated that the environment (or the amount of food served) plays a large role in how much we choose to eat, so serving the right amount with the right presentation might actually work. Regardless, it’s interesting.