Archive for the 'Ideas!' Category

Who Says There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!?

Today, just before noon, an attractive young woman walked into my office carrying lunch for six people from Jack Astor’s. They sent out free lunches to selected local businesses to promote their new lunch menu, and speedy lunchtime service. She explained the promotion, encouraged us to come over to the restaurant for lunch, and was [...]

Crate & Barrel

It’s a rare day that I get what I believe to be adequate customer service. It’s an ever rarer occasion that someone exceeds my expectations, but this is exactly what happened this past week with Crate & Barrel at Yorkdale Mall.
We’ve been in the market for new curtains for our living room. Having completed an [...]

Tardiness

If you are running late, don’t stop and get coffee. Especially if the event you are already late for requires your attendance in order to proceed. And there are a number of other people already there waiting for your arrival.
I can’t understand how many of the women (yes, it’s only the women who do this) [...]

First Impressions

“There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contactwith the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts:
what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.”
- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American Educator
In an ongoing effort to grow our business we stepped up our cold-calling and [...]

The Great Wedding Registry Scam

We finally got around to registering for our wedding (HBC Home Outfitters & Williams Sonoma if you care…) and discovered that real bargain hunters out there should really capitalize on this program. All you need to do is go to a place the offers a registry, create a fictitious wedding and registry, add all of [...]

I’ve Got An Idea!

This post might be a little nerdy, even by my standards, but I need to get this idea out into the open.
Here’s what I think the next round of personal home computers should be:
A personal computer styled like the iMac with the following features, geared towards the aging boomer crowd. The computer would have a [...]