devvyn

As someone who rarely watches TV anymore, I feel I don't have the television "culture" in my head (anymore) to use as a baseline for what "works" as an advertising message in the popular sense. For example, I saw an which could be summarized as follows:

Scrabble tiles land on a sterile white surface in front of the viewer and jiggle around to form misspelled phrases. I was so distracted by the misspellings I didn't catch the wording but it had something to do with putting a dollar sign after the word "million" to specify it refers to cash. I think it was a rhetorical question. The tiles vanish and a 3-D cartoon monkey comes out in a giant robotic suit and screams "there's millions to win!" or something of the sort. Dolly out to an oversized drink cup branded with the Subway logo, surrounded by hundreds of metallic CGI dollar signs, once again on a sterile white surface.

WTF?

So, I don't get the significance of the monkey in a mech, and I don't understand why "word" appeared as "wrod" or why "read" was "raed". Can someone fill me in?

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How to pack large plushies in a plastic garbage bag:

1. open bag in place plushies one by one into the bag
   
2. with bag still open, place your body weight on the bag of plushies to squeeze the air out
   
3. tie top of bag to seal air out

How not to pack plushies:

1. pack bag
2. tie it up
3. lay on it so the bag pops, ripping open the side

Guess which method I followed today?

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I have made a resolution:

I will no longer attempt to maximise the possibility of obscure match-ups of odds and ends, or of tools and project ideas. I will especially not do this at the expense of the reasonable utility of the areas where I store said items. I will instead focus the given energy which would be freed from these endeavours on maintaining equilibrium between what was once needed and what I will soon need, with myself as the buffer. I will realise in practice what have long thought of as an unattainable ideal: I will overcome my compulsion to attach meaning to material possessions. Furthermore, I will stop committing this irrationality in a gross and impractical manner. That which formerly defined me will now stand as a distant milestone to remind me of where I once stood.

I am no longer a packrat.

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I'm just testing out the new LJ app or the iPhone. I'm at the Coneplex on the Falls, about to see "Bolt" in 3-D digital. Maybe I'll post a review when the movie is done.
=^_^=

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