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Stella Artois' Chalice and 9-Step Process

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:28:00 +0000

BzzAgent.com sent me a Stella Artois chalice to try out and spread the word about Stella's 9-Step Pouring Ritual. It's pretty silly, but an interesting way to supplement a brand: create a sense of prestige by fabricating a pouring method and special container. It instills a sense of uniformity across the brand and they're a well enough known brand that they can try to enforce their methods on people they distribute to.

Some of the steps are common sense ("The Cleansing" = washing the glass.. really?), but one I found interesting was cutting the top of the beer head off to create a nice shape as it rises.

The glass itself is nicely made and features a gold band and a pouring line. What do you think? Have you heard of or seen this 9-step pouring process?

Happy National Mic Check Day! 12.12.12

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:25:00 +0000

Formatted for facebook timelines. 12/12/12

DIY Touch Screen Gloves

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:44:00 +0000

I just might try this.. just buy some conductive thread and sew into existing gloves..
eBay Deals Instructographics

For my birthday, please consider donating to my dad who's in the hospital

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:00:00 +0000

10 Flu Myths

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:09:00 +0000

The following was part of a PSA from the company I work for:

Sometimes medical myths can get in the way of good medical care. When it's flu season, take the
necessary steps to stay healthy. That includes separating fact from myth.

1) You can catch the flu from the vaccine.
The vaccine is made from an inactivated virus that can't transmit infection. So, people who get
sick after receiving a flu vaccination were going to get sick anyway. It takes a week or two to get
protection from the vaccine. People assume that because they got sick after getting the vaccine,
the shot caused their illness.

2) Healthy people don't need to be vaccinated.
It's true that the flu vaccination is routinely recommended for people who have a chronic illness,
but anyone can benefit from being vaccinated. Current guidelines suggest that children ages 6
months to 19 years old, pregnant
women, and anyone over age 49 be vaccinated each year.

3) Getting the flu vaccination is all you need to do to protect yourself from the flu.
There are a number of steps you can take to protect yourself during flu season besides vaccination.
Avoid contact with people who have the flu, wash your hands frequently, and consider taking
anti-viral medications if you were exposed to the flu before being vaccinated.

4) The flu is just a bad cold.
The cold virus is different from the flu virus. Influenza may cause bad cold symptoms, but in the
United States alone,
36,000 people die and more than 200,000 are hospitalized each year because of the flu.

5) You can't spread the flu if you're feeling well.
Actually, 20 to 30 percent of people carrying the influenza virus have no symptoms.

6) You don't need to get a flu shot every year.
The influenza virus changes (mutates) each year. So getting vaccinated each year is important to
make sure you have
immunity to the strains most likely to cause an outbreak.

7) You can catch the flu from going out in cold weather without a coat, with wet hair or by
sitting near a drafty window.
The only way to catch the flu is by being exposed to the influenza virus. Flu season coincides with
the cold weather, so people often associate the flu with a cold, drafty environment, but they are
not related.

8) Feed a cold, starve a fever.
If you have the flu (or a cold) and a fever, you need more fluids. There's little reason to
increase or decrease how much you eat. Though you may have no appetite, "starving" yourself will
accomplish little. Poor nutrition will not help
you get better.

9) Chicken soup will speed your recovery from the flu.
Hot liquids can soothe a sore throat and provide much needed fluids, but chicken soup has no other
specific qualities
that can help fight the flu.

10) If you have a high fever with the flu that lasts more than a day or two, antibiotics may be
necessary.
Antibiotics work well against bacteria, but they aren't effective for a viral infection like the
flu. Then again, some
people develop a bacterial infection as a complication of the flu, so it may be a good idea to get
checked out if your
symptoms drag on or worsen.

Source: Harvard Health Publications, © 2009

A good day.

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 05:12:00 +0000

Free pizza, review, Crossfit, ice cream, Summer Shandy, and remaining positive - despite the rain.

How to Get Old Users to Come Back

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:31:00 +0000

Send some messaging. This interrupts them which you have a 95% chance of annoyance.
Create content. Making genuine, original, and relevant stuff for people to consume will make them stop by out of curiosity and you can be happy you're providing extra stuff. Think knowledge leadership. Think creativity.
Improve their experience. Google at some point streamlined their admin GUI and provided us with lots of new blog templates to choose from. I picked a new tile theme a) because it shows old posts and b) because I can geek out over the HTML5ness.

I'm back.

Mashups

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:28:00 +0000

I love mashups when they're done well.
This is a great example:

Awesome mashup

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:38:00 +0000

Beyonce vs. Paramore--

Beyonce Vs Paramore - Brick Halo (Rock Dance MixMashup) DJ Schmolli by Mixes and Mashups #3

TIL: GPS limits

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:52:00 +0000

Today I Learned - If your phone goes 1,200 mph (1000 knots), its GPS will be disabled because the COCOM limits will take into effect: anything going this fast and over 60,000 in altitude is likely a ballistic missile and shouldn't be tracked. Say what!

TIL: Bob Dole's Pen

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:47:00 +0000

Bob Dole lost the use of his right arm in WWII. He carries a pen in that hand in public so people don't move to shake his right hand.

TIL: Google Voice makes hilarious text transcriptions

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:50:00 +0000

Voicemail from: Katie (###) ###-#### at 2:40 PM

Hey, this is Katie, I've got a pizza bodies the grocery store right to keep the done about mushrooms and cos i got to get it to chat a pizza love you I did. Yes, I did you guys a pizza, megabucks of the master. I'm so today since I'm back to you about Saturday. A lot. Bye bye, giving a speech at a lot. Okay bye.

TIL: I should change my blog.

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:32:00 +0000

I'm going to change the topic of this blog to reflect things I learned. I'll prefix the post with "TIL" for "Today I Learned.." --

TIL: Some Mac OSX keyboard shortcuts.

Open FrontRow: Cmd Esc

Define any word on the screen [most apps]: move your mouse over any word and press Control, Command, D.

By the way, this is also a test of a new Mac app called Qumana which I was hoping I could use to post from the desktop instead of the web...*crossing fingers* here we go big, shiny Publish Post button!

I Love Foreign Spam

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:43:00 +0000

Throwing a Chinese e-mail into Google Translate, I get this gem:

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Do not believe. You ask your son his mother, she knows! "
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Happy when the night put on human cloning basaltic rock armor, the defense suddenly
i4xj6 a professional assessment tool to understand their own behavior style and mastery of targeted improvements
teaw6 to me after the man asked the little fat:
l3gcu quick to judge other people learn to conduct effective communication style andskills with which to enhance the efficiency gus9a
Students are transfer the money to the local government and ask them to special funds
avlbh details nwzqx conditions dtatx please check sdnkz access velun mioji with rn7vxpieces 68glu! ad6h0
In contrast Rui Chong, at the moment but it is tears, not because of discomfort, but he

The end.

Playstation Network is back online - what it means for PS3 owners

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Tue, 17 May 2011 01:38:00 +0000

After a security breach, PlayStation Network was taken down for quite a while. Now that it's back, they want to welcome people back with some incentives. I think it's a great PR move and is much better than the usual begging customers to come back or just offering a discount. They went the extra step:

Gamers will get to choose 2 out of the following 5 PS3 games to keep for free forever: Dead Nation, inFamous, LittleBigPlanet, Super Stardust HD, Wipeout HD + Fury.

PS3 owners will also get 30 days of PlayStation Plus and some free movie rentals to be announced.
What do you think? Is this good enough?

Here are some trailers for each PS3 game from the list:
Dead Nation

inFamous

LittleBigPlanet

Super Stardust HD

Wipeout HD + Fury:

Playstation Network is back online - what it means for PS3 owners

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Tue, 17 May 2011 01:38:00 +0000

inFamous

LittleBigPlanet

Super Stardust HD

Wipeout HD + Fury:

Flying is crazy

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:45:00 +0000

So I decided last night while on Southwest Airlines [great airline, BTW] that flying on passenger jets is such a crazy thing to do. You are up a billion feet in the air, in a tin can, going pretty fast through clouds, ice crystals, birds, wind, fire, etc. Most of the time the plane is stable and you feel like you're on the highway. Other times you think the thing might fall apart. Wait, you say you're never afraid of flying? Bullshit!

My new ride....

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:48:00 +0000

2010 Nissan 370Z.

Pearl White
6 sp. manual
19" Rays volks
Bridgestone Potenza summer performance
State legal window tint
Stillen Cat Back Exhaust (+15 bhp)
K&N drop-in filters (+3 bhp)
Splash guards
Rear spoiler
Synchro rev-match
Carpeted Z trunk + mats
bumped up to 350 HP at the crank
4 coats of wax
Illuminated orange "Z" kick plates

Pick-up day!

WHAT A MACHINE. I love it and have wanted a Z for 6 years since I saw one in a UMass Amherst parking lot. (Purple Lot 44 represent!). See if you can view it fullsize, the paint just sparkles in the sunlight. Looks a lot better in person

Troofs!!

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:36:00 +0000

Christina

2:22 PM

So Joann doesn't know I'm knocked up

2:22 PM

let's mess with her

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:22 PM

How ?

Christina

2:22 PM

I think

2:23 PM

that maybe you should IM her

2:23 PM

and be like, "I think Christina's pregnant"

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:23 PM

wait

2:23 PM

WAIT WAIT WAIT

Christina

2:23 PM

lol

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:23 PM

NO MORE PRANKS

2:23 PM

THEY ONLY HURTT POEPLE

2:23 PM

!&(#@

Christina

2:23 PM

WHAT

2:23 PM

COME ON!

2:23 PM

COME ON

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:23 PM

UH UH

Christina

2:23 PM

SERIOUSLY

2:23 PM

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:23 PM

NOT COOL

Christina

2:23 PM

NO WAY

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:23 PM

WAY

Christina

2:23 PM

THIS ONE WON'T HURT YOU THOUGH

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:23 PM

YES HUH

Christina

2:23 PM

HOW

2:24 PM

AND IT'S A NICE OUTCOME

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:24 PM

NOWAI

2:24 PM

YOU FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO BE YOUR GOON! !#@

2:24 PM

IM TELLING THE WHOLE WEORLD!

Christina

2:24 PM

FINE

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:24 PM

CAPS LOCK IS ONR NOW

2:24 PM

Christina

2:24 PM

I ALREADY PUT IT ON FACEBOOK

2:24 PM

FINE

2:24 PM

BE THAT WAY

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:24 PM

IM TELLING JOANN YOU WERE GOING TO PREANSKD HWE4R

Christina

2:24 PM

HAVE FUN IN YOUR SAD LONELY WORLD WITH NO FUN

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:24 PM

2:25 PM

ow.

Christina

2:25 PM

I HOPE ITS FUN IN THERE

2:25 PM

WITH NO PRANKS

2:26 PM

WE COULD JUST SEND HER THIS THREAD

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:26 PM

FINE

Christina

2:26 PM

FINE THEN

2:26 PM

YOU SEND IT

.e.r.i.c.:D

2:26 PM

FINE

Christina

2:26 PM

FINE

Unnst!

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:17:00 +0000

1) Go to Google Translate
2) Set the translator to translate German to German
3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch
4) Click "listen"
5) Be amazed.

Bacon Day

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:47:00 +0000

A totally glorious day of bacon and sizzling and ninjas...

Why are we OK with Sucky Cellphone Quality?

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:11:00 +0000

How is it that we are all O.K. with really crappy cellphone call quality? People don't realize how potentially good the quality could be.

The high-treble, staticy and scratchy sound that gets sent from your cellphone is one of my worst peeves. It is just accepted that cellphones don't sound that great. I do not think it's a lack of technology, it's just a lack of public outcry that makes it okay for cell companies to ignore good quality audio and save on bandwidth costs.

We can send texts, pictures, even video - at decent quality. We complain when it takes more than 10 seconds for a web page to finish loading - but nobody ever talks about the quality of someone's voice over the phone: it's crap! I really don't like talking on the phone. I was trying to think of reasons why.

For one thing, I'm the kind of guy that likes to do lots of things at the same time. Most of those things require two hands: I hate holding phones. Things I do also usually require some kind of thinking: hard to do on a phone. They also usually require sound: TV, guitar, computer - basically can't do anything except sit there on the phone.

The other reason is that it's either rough on my ears as an annoyance, or it's tough to understand what people are saying on the other end due to the bad quality. The lowest plan for an iPhone user costs more than $70 per month -- is that not enough money to pay for some better bandwidth and quality audio??

I don't even think landline phones are where they should be today. It should sound like I'm right next to the person with the amount of available bandwidth and money floating around. Hey AT&T + Verizon - Take a lesson from VoIP and increase that phone quality so it's at least better than cans & string . It could be the best differentiator in cellphone history. Anyone else in agreement, or am I crazy?

How to Open Two Excel Windows Side by Side, Multiple Monitors in Windows 7

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:22:00 +0000

To open a second instance of Excel in

Windows 7, middle click on your Excel taskbar item, and pow - you have opened a second window that is totally separate from the Excel window you have opened already.

Before, you could only have two spreadsheets open within the same parent form. This meant you could only use one monitor, unless you stretched the window out manually and placed things in their spot. If you have two monitors with different resolutions, forget it. (Think laptop and external monitor, like I have at work).

If you have Win Vista or earlier, you can see if this helps.

How to Add Twitter Usernames with a .CSV or Excel Spreadsheet

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:19:00 +0000

If you have a large mailing list or database of people, and you are one of the hip people who uses Twitter, you're in luck. With a bit of magic, Twitter can find out which of those e-mails are on Twitter, and import them to your Follow list.

Here's how:

Save your spreadsheet as a .CSV file - you need to have the following column headers (and only these): First Name, Last Name, Email Address. See this Gmail KB article
Make a new Gmail account. The best way to do this is to have someone send you an invitation through their Gmail account. You can also send yourself an invitation. The reason you want to do it this way is because if you are a random person signing up for the first time from gmail.com, they will ask to send you a SMS message to verify you're a human. You can only do that once, so try the invitation method. You should now have a completely blank Gmail account with only the welcome e-mails in your inbox, and nobody in your contacts list.
Import your .CSV file into your Gmail contacts list. On the left side of Gmail, you'll see the word "Contacts" - go in here and on the upper right is the word "Import". Follow these steps if you get confused. NOTE: You can only hold a few thousand contacts at a time. Break your spreadsheet into multiple chunks if you need to and repeat this step after you upload your first chunk to Twitter.
Log in to Twitter
On the upper-right, click "Find People"
Click the tab called "Find on Other Networks" - Use your newly-made Gmail account to have Twitter pull in those contacts. You're done! Read on for another tip.
I recommend making a note of who these contacts are so you can put them into a Twitter List later for a quick look at your customer or mailing list database tweets. More on these new Twitter Lists can be found on Hubspot's blog post:
An Inbound Marketer's Introduction to Twitter Lists
If you have more contacts that couldn't fit into your Gmail contact list, go into your Contacts section, delete everyone in there, and Import chunk #2.
Rinse and Repeat if desired.

Well, that wasn't so bad, now was it? Now get out there and interact with your database folks in the way you always wanted to.

How to Swiffer without a Swiffer

noreply@blogger.com (Eric) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:41:00 +0000

Sick of dragging out a huge mop + bucket of crappy water around, I needed a new solution to a dirty linoleum kitchen floor - without needing to buy a Swiffer.

Here's how I did it:

Sweep the floor as usual, picking up loose dirt and things, put in a dustpan and throw in the trash. Well, don't throw it - it usually ends up back on the floor that way.
Get some of your favorite cleaning wipes. They come in a plastic canister, are moist, and you pull them up as if they were tissues. Soggy Kleenex if you will. Either way, I had some of the Clorox brand wipes from Target.
Pull two of them out.
Place on floor. Don't drop them, you're not good enough to have them land perfectly flat.
Step on them with shoes on. I recommend Saucony running shoes.
Do a little dance. The trick here is to scrub back and forth with your feet staying on the floor. Try to incorporate "The Robot."

And you're done! Depending on how filthy of a pig you are, you may need to use quite a few cleaning wipes, but compared to a Swiffer, it's more fun and less expensive!

EazyD - 1, 2, 3. | Eric Deutchman

Stella Artois' Chalice and 9-Step Process

Happy National Mic Check Day! 12.12.12

DIY Touch Screen Gloves

For my birthday, please consider donating to my dad who's in the hospital

10 Flu Myths

A good day.

How to Get Old Users to Come Back

Mashups

Awesome mashup

TIL: GPS limits

TIL: Bob Dole's Pen

TIL: Google Voice makes hilarious text transcriptions

TIL: I should change my blog.

I Love Foreign Spam

Playstation Network is back online - what it means for PS3 owners

Playstation Network is back online - what it means for PS3 owners

Flying is crazy

My new ride....

Troofs!!

Unnst!

Bacon Day

Why are we OK with Sucky Cellphone Quality?

How to Open Two Excel Windows Side by Side, Multiple Monitors in Windows 7

How to Add Twitter Usernames with a .CSV or Excel Spreadsheet

An Inbound Marketer's Introduction to Twitter Lists

How to Swiffer without a Swiffer