Sold Out

I've spent nearly the past two years of my professional career hitting happy hours and working in Search Engine Marketing. Since I won't be making any extra money from the happy hours asides from drunken bets involving my clothing and dollar bills, I've decided to tap into my other resources and target minor profitability with a little online advertising. What you see above, loyal readers, is a Contextual Ad from Google. "What is this 'contextual ad'" you ask? Basically it scans or "spiders" sites for relevant keywords, and will present or "serve" an ad based on what it finds. My previous post on fast food chicken products yielded an ad for a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise. It's also interesting to see day-to-day what kind of ads the spider will serve up next based on the content on this page. Wow - fun and profitability!

My fellow blogger made 60 cents in a month advertising this way. Please don't get me wrong though; you, my readers, are more important than profit. If you find the use of advertising space either offensive or intrusive, leave me a comment and I'll compare the value of your visit to 60 cents and get back to you.

Pigs Will Fly

A ridiculous chat conversation that was taken much too seriously...

jl: I heard they are cross genetically mutating pigs with chickens, to produce a better tasting pork/chicken meat that is good for you...
bb: what will they call it?
bb: picken?
bb: chork
d8: I'm chorking my picken
jl: I heard KFC is gonna be serving this new type of meat
d8: I'll have the 12 piece of chork
jl: That's why they abbreviated their name from Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC
bb: breast of chork
jl: for legal reasons...
bb: and a leg of picken
jl: Can't really use "Chicken"
d8: I'll have a chiggen nugget
bb: kentucky fried chork
d8: KFC we do Chork Right
bb: hmmm.. will chorks lay eggs?
bb: maybe make peggs?
jl: I heard they will be infertile, cuz their hybrid
bb: and fueled w/ batteries...
jl: They named the very 1st one, Peshman
jl: But it only survived a couple days...
jl: Trying to find that website again, where I read all this...
d8: wow some weird wild wacky stuff
bb: i dont think pple will eat it
bb: its just too weird
jl: They won't sell it in markets...
jl: They just sell the meat to fast food places like McD's
jl: to make nuggets and other products

On a related note, you know that you can get 6 pieces McDonald's Chicken McNuggets for a buck now? Only until January 31st, so pick up your Chicken McNuggets while it's... uh... still chicken.

Post Holiday Party

On Wednesday, January 18th, we had our much-delayed Holiday party. "Your company threw a party for Martin Luther King Jr. day?" I was asked. No, not for Martin Luther King Jr., but for the holiday in 2005 that was thrown askew due to the transit strike the week before Christmas.

We just bounced back to the office from the third three-day-weekend in two months, and the stress level wasn't high enough to fully appreciate a good, relaxing, open bar office party. Once through the door of Grace though, the throng of co-workers and their guests (limit one per co-worker) pressed up against the forty foot long bar negated any notion of sober anti-socialism.

Many conversations, glasses, and hours later, I'm reminded by my co-workers of great things that I've done and said the night before:

• I made a date with someone's boyfriend to go rock climbing.
• I put a slice of chocolate cake in someone's pocket, which the recipient ate when he got home.
• I didn't understand why being in California was a legitimate reason to not make it to the party.
• I discussed astrology which led me to the astrological and dreams analysis page of Glamour.com, and discovered Cancer was my "rising sign."
• I impressed a couple on how I passed Chemistry for Engineers in college with a 0 on my final, and still passed the class because of the curve.

And to end the evening:

• I paid cab fare through my coworker with a $20 bill and two brown sugar packets. And I'm still waiting for my change.

I was also very flattered by the following comment from my co-worker's spouse:

"I like talking to the Big KL. It
feels like I'm in Middle School all over again."

Fruit in France More Adulterous

I haven't been this amused in a while...
It's sadder when fruit has more drama in their lives than I do.

To give credit, this came from:
http://images12.fotki.com/v243/photos/4/43115/147386/b9961762-vi.jpg

New Year's Revolution

A few of you loyal readers have been kind enough to remind me that I've not been posting as frequently as I used to. You can assume that blogging more frequently is probably not one of my New Year's Resolutions.

Work has been a bit hectic after two weeks of slacking for the holidays, and although things are shaping up for my company as a whole, some drama within my account team makes going to work every day everyday less fun than it should be. On the home front, the passing of wifey's grandfather right before New Year's has kept things on the somber side. The overwhleming support she's received from family and friends though, has been much appreciated and was without a doubt immensely helpful to her and her family.

I've always been a believer in what goes down can only go up (except for my stock portfolio), so after a rough couple of weeks in January, things are looking up. So stay tuned faithful readers, because 2006 should be an eventful year.

And Happy New Year to all!