Monatsarchive: Juli 2005

PR-Flacks and magazine editors

ghi has made a nice list of things that PR flacks seem to be con­vin­ced off. It con­tains hil­arious things like (ran­dom exam­ples) Edi­tors just love to see Power Point pre­sen­ta­ti­ons of the com­pa­nies finan­cial situa­tion, instead of the pro­duct it crea­tes. Cal­ling back imme­dia­tely after a mee­ting is a sure­fire way to get a posi­tive ans­wer. ghi, you should …

22. Juli 2005 – 17:53 | Von JollyOrc | Geposted in working | Getagged, , | Kommentare (0)

TV Nostalgia

Someone on avlis​.org pos­ted a link to this great site: Fugg­led 101: Grea­test TV The­mes EVER. Now, I’m ger­man, and spent my childhood watching all car­toons in ger­man too. Thus I do not reco­gnize all of these the­mes, or remem­ber them dif­fe­rent. But still, a lot of them are highly reco­gnize­able, and bring me that lovely fee­ling of …

21. Juli 2005 – 17:56 | Von JollyOrc | Geposted in finding | Getagged, , | Kommentare (0)

Recent thoughts

As I’m in the lat­ter half of a two-week vaca­tion, I’ve had a lot of time to do stuff I nor­mally don’t do. For instance, I’ve been play­ing squir­rel in Bad Beven­sen, finally mana­ged to watch at least the Pilot of Fire­fly, as well as that remake of Batt­le­star Galac­tica , got mys­elf a bicy­cle after years of wal­king and …

20. Juli 2005 – 17:25 | Von JollyOrc | Geposted in random | Getagged, , , | Kommentare (0)

not afraid

Lon­do­ners aren’t afraid. Which is a good thing to see. Ter­ro­rists try to make state­ments by doing stu­pid and hor­ri­ble stuff. Media then occa­sio­nally helps them unwit­tin­gly by sprea­ding fear and stress. This is the right state­ment: Go and stuff your­self ter­ro­rist scum. People won’t be cowered. Still, my thoughts are with those who lost loved …

8. Juli 2005 – 13:04 | Von JollyOrc | Geposted in random | Getagged, , | Kommentare (0)