I have a small Dakota carry-on/roller, which has held up very well. It's Tumi's 'budget' brand. Re. 'lifetime guarantees' these do not cover normal wear'n'tear, or being destroyed by baggage handlers.
The problem is, that banks are selling these services as 'just like face-to-face banking but more convenient,' and a lot of people believe them. The banks could say "we have this wonderful convenient service but make sure you run virus checkers if you want to avoid being ripped off," but that would just make people think the bank does not know what it's doing. Instead the banks imply the system is safe, and your normal mom'n'pop bank/computer users assume it is so.
Banks provide customers with 'convenient' online banking in order to lower staff costs elsewhere in their system. If they can't provide a secure system, which includes protection against viruses which they knew about, then they're liable, IMHO, and the money they save from lower staffing should be able to cover instances like this.
I was walking the dog in the park at whatevertime, and suddenly heard drunken, off-key, karaoke-style renditions of the final chorus of "Hey Jude" simultaneously waft out of a number of nearby houses. So that was the Superbowl?
Here's how I think it ties in:
- This is a cool ad
- I get and appreciate the meta/mashup/pomo references
- Therefore: I recognize that it's clever and creative and funny
- Therefore: I must be a clever/creative/funny person
- Therefore: I am probably just the sort of person who would consider buying a cool car like a VW.
In short it presents something quite simple in such a way as to make you feel clever and pleased with yourself ... IMHO, of course ;)
I like Garamond too. I did have Helvetica for sans-serif, but now I think Verdana looks better, at least for the way I use it. My favourite serif font in print was Galliard, but that seems to have disappeared.
I'd love to see this too - although I'd have to come from Colorado. I'd always vaguely dismissed the Christo's work as pretentious bollocks, until I saw some documentaries (by the Maysles brothers) that showed how these huge pieces prompted thousands of otherwise-not-into-art passers to pause for a few minutes, and to think about art, and the taken-for-granted nature of their everyday world, and relationship between the two. Or something like that.
This was in the news here (Boulder CO) a couple of months ago when a frat boy passed out, his friends wrote on him and went to bed, and he had died of alcohol poisoning by the morning.
Yep I have the weighty Motilal Banarsidass reprint on my shelves. I did do Sanskrit 101 a few years ago as a way into classical Tibetan, but it led nowhere in the end, partly due to the inability of my brain to deal with languages in anything but a highly literal fashion (that is, being paralysed unless I thought I knew the *exact* word to use ...).
The Sanskrit word for 'tiger' is, I believe, pronounced 'viagra.'
Another possible modern use of Sanskrit is the title of the literary magazine Granta - 'grantha' is Sanskrit for 'book' or 'narration' - I think it's derived from granthi, meaning to tie or knot together ...
Whoa, you're right. It does. That's pretty good!
posted by carter 18 years ago
I have a small Dakota carry-on/roller, which has held up very well. It's Tumi's 'budget' brand. Re. 'lifetime guarantees' these do not cover normal wear'n'tear, or being destroyed by baggage handlers.
posted by carter 18 years ago
In "Kodomo no kuni"
Beautiful, thanks!
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "For this man, ignorance could be bliss... or at least worth $90,000."
The problem is, that banks are selling these services as 'just like face-to-face banking but more convenient,' and a lot of people believe them. The banks could say "we have this wonderful convenient service but make sure you run virus checkers if you want to avoid being ripped off," but that would just make people think the bank does not know what it's doing. Instead the banks imply the system is safe, and your normal mom'n'pop bank/computer users assume it is so.
posted by carter 19 years ago
Banks provide customers with 'convenient' online banking in order to lower staff costs elsewhere in their system. If they can't provide a secure system, which includes protection against viruses which they knew about, then they're liable, IMHO, and the money they save from lower staffing should be able to cover instances like this.
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "The SuperBowl Thread"
I was walking the dog in the park at whatevertime, and suddenly heard drunken, off-key, karaoke-style renditions of the final chorus of "Hey Jude" simultaneously waft out of a number of nearby houses. So that was the Superbowl?
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "Massive mound of
coalmanure burns for 3 months straight!"Holy crap!
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "Singing in the Rain, rather updated."
Here's how I think it ties in: - This is a cool ad - I get and appreciate the meta/mashup/pomo references - Therefore: I recognize that it's clever and creative and funny - Therefore: I must be a clever/creative/funny person - Therefore: I am probably just the sort of person who would consider buying a cool car like a VW. In short it presents something quite simple in such a way as to make you feel clever and pleased with yourself ... IMHO, of course ;)
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "London Underground: shoot them all with a rifle"
Hilarious! And doubly so for being a cover.
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "ESA flubs Titan landing show"
That's hilarious, scartol!
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "Curious George: Best blog font?"
I like Garamond too. I did have Helvetica for sans-serif, but now I think Verdana looks better, at least for the way I use it. My favourite serif font in print was Galliard, but that seems to have disappeared.
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "River of Gold."
I'd love to see this too - although I'd have to come from Colorado. I'd always vaguely dismissed the Christo's work as pretentious bollocks, until I saw some documentaries (by the Maysles brothers) that showed how these huge pieces prompted thousands of otherwise-not-into-art passers to pause for a few minutes, and to think about art, and the taken-for-granted nature of their everyday world, and relationship between the two. Or something like that.
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "Subservient Blair"
Thatcher.
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "Worlds of magic"
Beautiful - thanks!
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "Shamings"
This was in the news here (Boulder CO) a couple of months ago when a frat boy passed out, his friends wrote on him and went to bed, and he had died of alcohol poisoning by the morning.
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "World Beard Championship"
You have made my day.
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "Sanskrit"
Ah; well, it was a good theory ...
posted by carter 19 years ago
Yep I have the weighty Motilal Banarsidass reprint on my shelves. I did do Sanskrit 101 a few years ago as a way into classical Tibetan, but it led nowhere in the end, partly due to the inability of my brain to deal with languages in anything but a highly literal fashion (that is, being paralysed unless I thought I knew the *exact* word to use ...).
posted by carter 19 years ago
The Sanskrit word for 'tiger' is, I believe, pronounced 'viagra.' Another possible modern use of Sanskrit is the title of the literary magazine Granta - 'grantha' is Sanskrit for 'book' or 'narration' - I think it's derived from granthi, meaning to tie or knot together ...
posted by carter 19 years ago
In "The abacus."
Nice, thanks rolypolyman!
posted by carter 19 years ago
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