Am back in Chicago....wedding and trip back to the Cedar valley stomping grounds went as expected. Wedding was done quite tastefully all things considered. They spent more on it than I make in a year I'm sure but that's to be expected.
Apologies to anyone I didn't manage to see (yes I'm talking to you ericka). My Saturday night sort of got squashed by virtue of the fact I never managed to leave the wedding when I was originally thinking I'd do teh requisite hello's and then leave. Turned out people I hadn't seen in around 15 years were there and I ended up chatting with them teh whole time. then i went and played Asshole with people from the wedding (and by played, I really mean sit around and drink while they played...I can't be bothered injecting strategy into my drinking habits).
From the "Boy I wish I thought of that first file, I give you this site. From my own heart because 90% of the hot women I see when I'm "Out on the scene" (which really means "where said douchebags spend all their time") are with people cut from teh same fabric as the assclowns on that site. Plus they get points for adding "hipsterbag" to my vocabulary. I don't know about you, but I'm willing to say MC Cul de Sac here in the Shell shirt is a strong candidate for fucktard of the week:
Terry Semel stepped down from Yahoo today. Nobody is suprised. 100 bucks says this is the year they finally are acquired by Microsoft, although the 6 billion dollar pricetag they swiped up A Quantive for may hinder their ability to go splurge on shit.
But if you RLY want some funny/gossip shit in my industry, you'll want to whack this link. iCrossing was at one point the 900lb gorilla in our business but has lost a lot of its luster recently (or maybe I just stopped giving a shit about them...kind of a chicken/egg thing). Nevertheless, its always funny to see the shit-talking fly when the lay offs occur. Without naming names, I can think of at least a half dozen other firms that are probably housing equally disgruntled employees. Don Scales is no doubt cut from the same mold as every other "25 year veteran of an industry that is really only 10 years old". All hat no cattle. Innovation for fun and profit (but mostly profit). These guys are in like the 9th level of hell just below all those fucking black-hat spammers from eastern europe trying to make a buck. In fact they may be worse because they manage to trick people who have money into believing their bullshit. Well, for now at least.