News, News Outlets and Links
Two bits of good news about the house.
The first is that we're rejoining the universe on Saturday by getting cable installed. It took Comcast two weeks to realize that they don't serve our area so we called the local company and bam, we'll get hooked up this weekend. Two new cable jacks installed for free so we'll have full digital cable in the living room and bedroom and basic in the office. It will be nice to have the box working again. Only problem is that my tv got a little broken in the move and we'll be looking to replace it sooner rather than later.

Second bit of good news is exciting! P just called with news of a lady with pups to adopt! They are rottweiller, catahoula and shepherd mixes and are ready to go this weekend. We're very excited about the prospect of having a puppy! My boss thinks I should get two so they can keep each other company. I'm not sure about taking on two hounds at once. They start cute and get big and hungry fast.

Last night I came across NewsFactor which will just become another outlet for my company's news. The only pain in the ass is that they force flacks to physically go to their site and cut and paste info into their contact form instead of having an email address that I can add to my distribution lists. Oh well, we'll see if the extra effort is worth it or if they drop back off the map again.

Another very cool link is to the Active Buyer's Guide. Its a bunch of pages that are designed to help you decide upon a brand or, in my case, a breed of dog. You can answer just a single page of questions and get some recommendations or answer several pages and get a very targeted recommendation. It worked pretty well last night in my dog searching but kept trying to foist a damned poodle on me.

I've been an amateur architecture buff for as long as I can remember, I'm also an engineering buff as well, so when a site like FabPreFab comes around, I get interested. The site details numerous prefab concept projects with some excellent pictures and information. If you're at all interested in design, architecture or living spaces then you'd have a good time checking out the site.

Negative Velocity has a quote about the anniversary of Neil Cassady's death from The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (though I could have sworn it was a Ken Kesey book, I have ceded to reality and it is a Tom Wolfe) about lag time, the time it takes for an event to penetrate our consciousness so that we can react to it. A concept I've been running around but never quite hitting until now.

In response to a post on Metafilter about Students for an Orwellian Society, its satirical but they appear to want to create the world of 1984, I looked up Shooting an Elephant, my favorite of many, many essays by Orwell that I've read over the years. Highly recommended even though the formatting is atrocious.

And finally, because every buck's gotta go further now, Ultimate Coupons.

I'll try to get a real post in later on this afternoon after I've justified my employment again for another week which shouldn't be too hard, we've continued to get great coverage and are moving forward in many different areas of PR and the company is doing well even though we no longer have a sales team. My boss actually referred to the missing sales people as the Sales Prevention Team because we're doing just fine without any dedicated sales team.