Archive for December 21st, 2004

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

Local Politics (for reasonably large values of local)

Hum, hrm. Several local items that deserve assessment, and since this week, I’ve been laid up with a shoulder injury (which means that in the last few days all I have done is build a WiFi antenna, overhaul the discs on my parents’ truck, crafted some extremely tidy bicycle fender extensions, worked on the damnable […]

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Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

Pain, Agony!

Somehow I’ve managed to avoid posting about this so far, but it’s time to share: my shoulder, which has been doing some sort of strange muscle-injury thing for a week, is driving me nuts. I’m in a fair amount of pain and discomfort all the time, and Tylenol-3s taken two at a time just barely […]

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Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

Brands: cars as a microcosm

Wired Cola was created as a branding exercise, and I still flatter myself that, along with the co-conspirators, I have a certain understanding of how to name a product. Today, let’s talk about car branding. There are car model names that have persisted for a very, very long time. Chevrolet Corvette. Sixty years, and a […]

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