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September 13th, 2007
The 1970’s brought us Gary Dahl’s famous Pet Rocks.
For about $3.95 you could buy an ordinary rock, swaddled in excelsior, wrapped in a glorious box and paired with a manual that helped you figure out how to care for your pet rock. It made Dahl a millionaire and about 400,000 people silly, fad-chasing automatons. And sadly, today, while there has yet to be money involved — our good friends over at Facebook are spitting out silly, time-wasting, ludicrous add-on applications that the automatons are flocking to yet again…and trying to get me to join.
Which I won’t. Because Facebook Applications are the new Pet Rock.
Posted under Applications, Facebook, Opinion, Pet Rock, This Is The New That. | 14 Comments »
July 25th, 2006
Stuffing animals and crunching numbers isn’t so different.
Because while you have to hunt down animals, you also have to hunt down numbers. While you might enjoy animals, you often don’t enjoy being overwhelmed by many of them…much like accountants enjoy numbers but don’t like being overwhelmed by them. Animals come in different shapes and sizes. Much like numbers. And when you get paid for doing something to animals (stuffing them) that others pretty much don’t understand, it comes deathly close to the art of accounting.
What did I tell you? Taxidermy is the new accounting.
Posted under Accounting, Stuffing Animals for Profit, Taxidermy, This Is The New That. | 13 Comments »
