Monthly Archives: December 2005

Hermanns in USA Today

Mark Memmott of USA Today wrote an interesting piece on Jeremy’s experiences with Flight 536, the photos he took, and the aftermath.  Being able to witness most of the response first-hand I can say–he really received every possible response imaginable, from being called a hero to the devil.

AT&T to spend $1 billion rebranding

That’s the price tag to go from SBC to at&t–and it all kicks off today.  Sad part is, I don’t know anyone who is a customer of SBC that actually loves their service.  So they’re spending a billion dollars to launch a new brand AND supplement their complete and utter lack of any word-of-mouth support.
Can’t [...]

Thinking about opening a coffeeshop?

You should read Michael Idov’s story of opening a neighborhood coffeeshop in NYC first.
Ahhh the food service business–always so alluring, and almost always ludicrously challenging for the $$$ you’ll make.

Chronicles of Narnia rap: Saving SNL and apparently, all of hip-hop

Who knew?

Alaska Airlines: First we nearly kill you, then we trash talk you on your blog

I’ve got a tip for Alaska Airlines and their employees:
Spend more time on making sure your planes don’t have holes in them, and less time on the blogs of people who almost died on your hole-ridden planes.

Hermanns survives a hole in his plane’s fuselage

Went to pick up my friend Jeremy Hermanns and his fiancee from the airport last night, only to find out their flight was delayed.  Not too uncommon for the holidays, right? 
Except, his flight was delayed b/c of a hole in the plane that caused the cabin to depressurize at 30,000 feet.  Thankfully my friends, [...]

A vote for TrojanWire is a vote for a safer America

Just go vote for TrojanWire in the Sports Blog poll…b/c we can’t have a Longhorn or Wolverine blog beat us.

Thoughts on Photo Opportunities

When the time comes for an executive at your company to pose with the new technology you’re about to introduce, remember these two cautionary images well (from a Japanese PSP game launch and the GameBoy Advanced launch, respectively):

(via Game + Life Review)

Koreans are smarter than us

Or, at least, their cellphone industry is.  Standardized plugs, data transfer cables and chargers?  It seems like some far-off wonderful dream.

Having a party

It’s turning into quite a party over at Blogebrity — in addition to Nick, Angelina, Neil, Hermanns and Johns, the Cowboy just showed up.
We’re just one traffic cop away from a great Village People Halloween costume.
If you could be our traffic cop, send me an email at kyle@blogebrity.com.